Full Tilt Poker has been smoking over the past few weeks as the top online poker pros are tearing up the high stakes tables. One poker pro in particular, the mystery pro Isildur1, has been on a losing streak and it has only gotten worse. Recently the mystery poker player lost over 3 million dollars to Cardrunner pro Brian Hastings.

Isildur1 had lost quite a bit over the past few weeks but last week the mystery pro had earned his loses back, well over $3.1 million. so just when it was looking good, things started to go bad; very bad. This past Tuesday Isildur1 started playing at the Jungleman12 at the $100/$200 NLHE and took him for $471,000.

After winning a good size amount, Isildur1 moved on to face Brian Townsend at the $500/$1,000 tables at Full Tilt Poker. The two would play for over four hours before Townsend would end up with over $3 million. the two would complete over 2,500 hands of poker. The largest pot of the night was up over $700,000.

Isildur1 looked good as he competed with Townsend on several of the Pot Limit Omaha tables at Full Tilt, after he earned almost one million from Townsend. But after that it was all downhill. Townsend went on a Roll and ended up taking $4.2 million, with four pots worth $500,000 and several over $400,000. End the end Townsend would end up earning over $3 million from Isildur1 before taking off.

In chat conversations Isildur1 stated several times that indicated how badly the night was going. He commented: “this is not happening” and “take my last $$ I don’t want it”. It was a rough night and most likely really hurt the bankroll of the mystery player, but he is sure to be back for more in the coming days. It will be interesting to see if he can earn back what he has lost.

Duke and Pollack has successfully stirred the media with its press release after their announcement, I found some unsettled issues on its background. As for me, I see three factors that can affect the success or detriment of their dream league or any poker league, for that matter. These are funding, TV and media partnerships, and the outpour of player cooperation.

In the press release, Duke pointed out that the still-to-be-named league will be funded by a private organization, Federation Sports and Gaming, Inc. Unlike other poker leagues and clubs, this one will seem to depend on an external financial backup. It’s a huge sum that has to be shelled out for a league that is yet to be tested. As of date, no FullTiltPoker.net download TV deal has been signed or contracts that are set. But Pollack said in an interview that this one is already on its way. The TV ad to be launched will have a tag “wait and see” that seems to lure avid poker players. Although TV deals can come handy, the most volatile factor is player cooperation. According to news, the league will have to start with invitational games. Players, around 200, will be pre-selected depending on a mathematical computation that will weigh every poker player’s latest standing. The rankings will depend on the player’s most recent successes, earnings, and titles excluding online poker tournament winnings. The possibility of one hundred percent player cooperation remains a big challenge for Duke and Pollack. In fact, WSOP Circuit had to offer a million dollar freeroll to invite the best poker players in. However, this promo did not receive the dream one hundred percent support of all professional poker players.

The league of Duke and Pollack is still faced with several minor issues that can compound into a big problem. As of now, PokerStars and Full Tilt haven’t announced yet their support for the league. These two online poker magnates are crucial in the success of such a league. The leagues tournament format does not allow player with bucks to play the tables. This will certainly affect the league’s return of investment. Usually, poker tournaments receive most of their financial backup through the entry fees. By cutting off this crucial factor, the league is faced at a short lived existence. However, I presume that the league hasn’t closed the possibility of having this game format. As what is apparent with the present poker league, maintain the enthusiasm of poker players is a tough challenge. This is especially true when you have to invite players for a tour out of Vegas. Even Doyle Brunson thinks that maintaining the action is a difficult task.

All these issues are yet to be addressed and as long the league is still in its conception, we can just hope for the best.

Poker players have been logging on in massive numbers at Full Tilt poker for the past few weeks to enjoy the large guaranteed tournaments. This past weekend so many players registered for the tournaments that over $200,000 total was added to the prize pools for the $750k guarantee and The Sunday Brawl.
The Sunday Brawl seems to be getting most of the action as of late. This event is a knockout tournament which has a buy-in of $240 plus 16. $40 of the buy-in goes toward the knockouts so if you knock a player out you get a reward. 2,448 players registered for this tournament which increased the regular $350,000 guaranteed prize pool to $489,600. That is an increase of $139,600!
Play was tough during the tournament and when online players titanfr59 and Cheryl45 got down to heads up play they would decided to cut a deal. The deal left both players earning nice prize and the eventual win would go to titanfr59.

Final Results:

titanfr59 – $90,481
Cheryl45 – $74,000 *2-way deal
pocketrockets11 – $47,981
Jsbryan – $36,230
drunk mashimaro – $25,459
this is punny – $16,646
fahmie – $11,261
_The_Ghost_XX – $7,834
KJulius10 – $5,875

the $750k guaranteed tournament had a good turnout as well with 4,126 players competing. This tournament has a buy-in of $200 plus 16 so the prize pool was increased by $75,200, not as large as The Sunday Brawl increase but still impressive. 585 spots would be paid in this tournament with first place earning over $145,000.

There would be no deal struck during this tournament so Kirbynator and ForEngland, the last two standing, would have to fight to earn a good prize. Kirbynator earned the chip lead and finally made a move when both were all in. ForEngland didn’t have the cards and would go out in second place, leaving Kirbynator to take home the $145,722 first place prize.

Final Results:
Kirbynator – $145,722
ForEngland – $88,214
cmiller916 – $57,764
Scary_Tiger – $45,386
BADNEW3 – $34,081
stanman420 – $25,251
jordankickz – $18,980
asaffer – $14,854
xx BabyGrand xx – $11,058

The Full Tilt Poker Online Poker Series kicked off with a bang last week and by the second day of the series it was clear to see that poker players were ready to compete. The second day of the series was the first on the schedule to offer two events and both events saw good turnouts to increase the guaranteed prize pools.
Event #2 was a No Limit Hold’em 4x Shootout 6 max event with a $300 plus $22 buy-in. 1,193 players registered to compete in the event which raised the prize pool from $250,000 guaranteed to $357,900, that is over $100,000 in cash increase!
The event was hosted by Scott Fischman but it was Red Full Tilt Pro David Pham who finished the highest out of the Full Tilt Pros. Pham finished in 32nd place earning $1,610.55. first place went to online player jive32 after he defeated CooLJohN22222 in heads up play.

Final Results:
1. jive32 – $62,632.50
2. CooLJohN22222 – $39,369.00
3. POCKET FIVE – $26,198.28
4. Jsbryan – $17,895.00
5. Mutha Flushaa – $12,526.50
6. Gracie8585 – $8,589.60

Event #3 of the Full Tilt Poker Online Poker Series XIII was a $200 plus $16 Omaha/8 event hosted by Scott Clements. This event saw 1,086 players competing which increased the $200,000 guaranteed prize pool to $217,200. Not a large increase but still a good increase.
This tournament saw the final five players decide to divide the remaining prize money. So some players earned a larger payday but finished lower than other players. Second place went to Acesoverxxx who earned just over $21,000 while third place went to HelloCity who earned just over $32,000. It was HelloCity who earned the largest payday despite the third place finish.

Final Results:
1. UgA7211 – $29,630.73
2. Acesoverxxx – $21,224.28
3. HelloCity – $32,238.44
4. gr24 – $24,295.57
5. LAJG – $26,840.58
6. TheComeUp – $9,774.00
7. arobinson11 – $6,516.00
8. thechemist83 - $4,887.00
9. knickadam55 – $3,475.20

The FIVE promotion came to an end this past weekend as Full Tilt upped the ante for their largest Sunday guaranteed tournament. The online poker room offered a $1.5 million guarantee this past weekend and 3,315 players registered to compete in the tournament.

The top prize was just over $295,000 so everyone was hoping to hold on and get to heads up play. When final table play began the chips totals were pretty close so it was anybody’s game. The two players who were out front in chips were sweepybreedy and HellaStacks who both had 3million+ and 2 million + respectively.

DiGTaLDeMoN was the first player eliminated when he went up against PAhrRK’s who held Pocket Queens to his Jacks. Ags104 was out next when he was called by HellaStacks who held a dominating A-K. The next few to go would be uRuGwa1, TheMasterJ33, Philbort and sweepybreedy leaving the last three players to duke it out before heads up play would begin.

HellaStacks was not looking good after he lost most of his chips to PAhrRK in one hand when both turned a flush and PAhrRK’s was better. HellaStacks would go out when he went up against PAhrRK again and his A-9 was no match for PAhrRK’s K-Q.

PAhrRK then began heads up play with blarkin but it would not last long. It ended when PAhrRK went all in with K-10 and was called by blarkin with A-9. The board ran K-3-4-10-9 and PAhrRK’s King gave him the win.

Final Results:

1. PAhrRK – $296,775.38

2. blarkin – $180,667.50

3. HellaStacks – $117,682.50

4. sweepybreedy – $91,991.25

5. philbort – $68,786.25

6. TheMasterJ33 – $50,885.25

7. uRuGwa1 – $38,122.40

8. ags104 – $29,835

9. DiGiTaLDeMoN – $22,210.50

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Players look forward to Sunday at Full Tilt so they can try their best to win the first place prize of one of several Full Tilt guaranteed tournaments. Full Tilt Poker’s Sunday Brawl and $750K guaranteed tournaments both saw really good turnouts which increased both tournaments prize pools.

The Sunday Brawl at Full Tilt Poker has a buy-in of $240 plus 16 and with 1,961 players competing the tournament increased the prize pool by $42,200. The prize pool is guaranteed for $350K and it was increased to $392,200 which paid out to 189 spots.

Online player’s zackdd and Tannina80 were the two left standing to compete in heads up play. play would go back and forth until Tannina80 took the chip lead and decided to make a move. It was the right choice and his cards held up to knock zackdd out in second place.

Final Results:

Tannina80 – $80,793

zackdd – $53,339

Dutchalicious – $39,612

wobblymr – $30,984

xBIG_BUGx – $23,140

Agreus – $16,080

shipitobv – $9,805

Marinersheep – $6,667

carlaomaringa – $4,706

3,811 players registered for the Full Tilt Poker $750K guaranteed which created an increased prize pool of $762,200. The buy-in for this event was $200 plus 16 and 522 spots were paid. First place was worth $134,948 so everyone was fighting for the first place prize.

When it came down to heads up play it would be either Jiacstrap or jonrubs2 who would take home the top prize. After just a short time, Jiacstrap would go all in against jonrubs2 and the cards would not hold up so jonrubs2 would earn the first place win.

Final Results:

jonrubs2 – $134,948

Jiacstrap – $81,555

fahmie – $53,354

DCVasya1945 – $42,073

debeuker – $31,555

The9deuce – $23,400

eddinho87 – $17,531

Black9ines – $13,720

CarlosLucero – $10,213

The Full Tilt $25k Heads Up World Championship took place this past weekend with sixty three players competing for the half a million plus first place prize. Some of the best names in internet poker competed in the event but they were unable to make it far in the competition. It was Ashton “theASHMAN103” Griffin who managed to hold on and be declared the winner.

The final four of the competition was David Benefield, Jim “WinnerFish” Kilarjian, Ashton “theASHMAN103” Griffin and Blair “yogiblair” Anderson. The four returned at 4:00ET on Sunday to begin a new round of heads up play after each had their own string of wins.

Blair Anderson defeated Negrodamus2, Scott Montgomery, dingepling and Alex Keating to move on to the final four while Ashton Griffin defeated GrindMode, Isaac Haxton, David Singer and Past. Jim Kilarjian defeated PureCash25, Steven Jacobs, Mirttinur and Rob Akery to move to the final four competition while David Benefield defeated Rafe Furst, DarkHorse19, DjAdi and IvanLendL in heads up play.

When final four play began Ashton Griffin faced Blair Anderson while David Benefield faced Jim Kilarjian. Griffin created a substantial chip lead over Anderson at 5 to 1 which helped him take the win. On the final hand Griffin held Q-Q against Andersons 5-5. Griffin’s pair was better and moved him to the final match of heads up play.

Benefield got down in chips while playing Kilarjian only to regain the lead a short time later. With the lead Benefield  held pocket Jacks to Kilarjian’s Q-9. Kilarjian went all in and Benefield called and his Jacks held up and he moved on to play Griffin in the Championship match.

When play began Benefield took a good lead only to lose it a short time later. Griffin soon doubled up again and held a good lead against Benefield. On the final hand Benefield went all in with 8-6 as he was trying for a straight draw and was called by Griffin who held pocket nines. This was big trouble for  Benefield as the board read 7-9-9. The turn and river card were no help for Benefield and he was out in second place with the win going to Griffin.

wwwfulltiltpoker.com Final Results:

1. Ashton “theASHMAN103” Griffin – $551,250

2. David Benefield – $315,000

3. Jim “WinnerFish” Kilarjian – $165,375

4. Blair “yogiblair” Anderson – $165,375

5. Past – $94,500

6. Alex “Kadabra” Keating – $94,500

7. IvanLendL – $94,500

8. Rob “Vaga_Lion” Akery – $94,500

This past Sunday, Full Tilt saw a good turnout for both the $350K guaranteed Sunday Brawl tournament and the monthly $1 million guaranteed tournament. Players were ready to compete in both tournaments and players who made the final table in both tournaments were able to earn a nice pay day for their efforts.

The $350k Guaranteed Sunday Brawl had a really good turnout of 2,051 players that paid the $240 plus $16 buy-in to increase the prize pool to $410,200. 234 players earned cash for their efforts but it was FlopNutsOnYou and DurangoDan35 who would compete for the top prize.

Both wanted the $83,660 payday and fought hard to earn the prize. FlopNutsOnYou was unable to get past DurangoDan35 to take the win. DurangoDan35 earned the $83,660 payday while FlotNutsOnYou earned $54,146 for second place.

FullTiltPoker Sunday Brawl Results:
1st DurangoDan35 – $83,660
2nd FlopNutsOnYou – $54,146
3rd eh90tcm – $40,200
4th pepe11 – $30,355
5th Turbo Johnson – $21,330
6th genetodd – $13,947
7th SuperUsed – $9,435
8th debeuker – $6,563
9th kautabjo – $4,922

After the Sunday Brawl, players were logging on to compete in the monthly $1 million guaranteed tournament. Once a month, Full Tilt ups the guaranteed on their weekly $750K tournament to the million dollar prize pool. 1,984 players paid the $500 plus $35 buy-in to compete in the tournament and 306 spots were paid.

Players competing in the $1 million earned a larger pay day than the $350K guaranteed tournament. First place was set to earn almost $185,000. After final table play began it was clear to see that kalterrell and TheNutters would be competing in heads up play. Once heads up play began it would be online player, TheNutters who would emerge victorious and earn the large pay day.

FullTilt Poker.net $1m Guaranteed tournament results:

1st TheNutters – $184,000
2nd kalterrell – $113,000
3rd The Chosen Wun – $74,000
4th AceHasslehoff – $59,000
5th topper33 – $45,000
6th 420-888 – $32,200
7th every1luvzneecy – $23,500
8th MickT1 – $18,500
9th Miguel Santiago – $14,000

Sunday is a busy, busy day for Full Tilt players as the online poker room has a wide variety of large tournaments that take place on Sundays. Players can have their pick of which large tournament they would like to enter and one thousand four hundred and forty one players chose to compete in last night’s Sunday Milligan.

The buy-in for the Sunday Milligan is $200 plus $16 so it is a little less than the Sunday Brawl, for those who are trying to save a little money. The prize pool gathered for last night’s event came to $288,200 and it was internet poker player braceb who took home the first place prize of $63,404.

Nine players made it to the final table and the first to go would be MYKICSIKE. Following close behind was theVisionary and Evilduke. When kautabjo went out in fifth, the real hard cash outs began. Kautabjo was the first to earn in the tens of thousands.

Balderdashin22 would go out in fourth followed by MariaRJ in third, which left S Dot Saul and braceb to duke it out in heads up play. Braceb held on and took the win from S Dot Saul which was an almost $15,000 difference from second place.

Full Tilt Poker Sunday Mulligan Final Table Results:

1st – braceb ($63,404)
2nd – S Dot Saul ($40,348)
3rd – MariaRJ ($29,180.25)
4th – Balderdashin22 ($23,416.25)
5th – kautabjo ($17,666.66)
6th – Ace18 ($12,969)
7th – Evilduke ($8,357.80)
8th – theVisionay ($6,052.20)
9th – MYKICSIKE ($4,323)