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While Full Tilt Poker is a site that mainly sticks to signing successful casino poker pros, they recently broke this trend by signing British heavyweight boxer Audley Harrison.  Harrison, who has won the British Heavyweight Championship and the European Heavyweight Championship, might seem like a newcomer in the world of online poker.  However, he actually has plenty of poker experience since he finished 2nd in a Bellagio Cup III side event ($76,895) and third in the Venetian Deep Stack Main Event ($90,298); he also has two WSOP cashes. Seeing as how Audley holds the rare distinction of being able to …

While many eyes were focused on the WSOP Main Event, Phil Ivey was focused on winning his second World Poker Tour title at Bellagio Cup VI.  Unfortunately for Ivey, his bid for a second title fell short, but he did manage to make a record ninth WPT final poker table after finishing in third place.  In taking third, the Full Tilt Poker pro earned a nice cash of $363,650, which probably isn’t that much to Ivey. Another Full Tilt player in Justin “Boosted J” Smith had the good fortune of playing for the title against Moritz Kranich.  Smith was at …

The World Poker Tour is definitely one of the biggest casino poker organizations in the world.  And this is a big reason why so many people are anticipating the opening of the WPT’s ninth season, which begins with the Bellagio Cup on July 11th.  Seeing as how it costs $10,300 to enter the Bellagio Cup, most people will be sticking to online poker.  However, the great thing is that you have a chance to get into the Bellagio Cup for much cheaper just by playing at Full Tilt Poker.  Full Tilt will give out three different $12,000 prize packages to …