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The Full Tilt Online Poker Series (FTOPS) just keeps getting bigger and bigger every time. This time around, Full Tilt Poker will offer $22 million across 45 tournaments in FTOPS XIX; this is decidedly bigger than FTOPS XVIII, which offered $19 million across 34 tournaments. FTOPS XIX starts on February 6th at 16:00 ET with a $1 million holdem poker tournament. Online poker players won’t have to wait long for the next million dollar tournament since Event #4 on February 7th is also a $1 million holdem event. In all, there will be eight tournaments with at least $1 million …

Daniel Negreanu is already considered one of the top poker tournament players in the world. But some might consider Negreanu THE best tournament player after he re-took first place on the all-time money winners list this past week. Negreanu leapfrogged Phil Ivey on the tournament money winners list after finishing second in the PokerStars Caribbean Adventure High Rollers event. Negreanu battled through a 38-player field, and into a heads-up match with Eugene Katchalov; unfortunately for Negreanu, he wasn’t able to overcome Katchalov and earn the $1.5 million top prize. Here’s how the top five finishers fared in the $100,000 PCA …

Most people are perfectly satisfied with the $750,000 Guaranteed tournament that Full Tilt Poker runs every Sunday. And people are especially happy with the 27% rakeback deals they offer! Of course, players wouldn’t complain if Full Tilt doubled the $750,000 Guaranteed prize pool to $1,500,000. And this is exactly what you can expect across the board at Full Tilt from January 24th to January 30th during their Double Guarantees Week. As the name implies, every weekly guaranteed poker tournament will have its prize pool doubled. Double Guarantees Week starts at 0:00 ET on January 24th with the $23,000 KO Guarantee, …

Normally, the only way you can enter a poker tournament with multiple entries is by using several different accounts. And this is considered cheating by all normal online poker standards. However, Full Tilt Poker has created a totally new concept that allows you to have multiple entries in the same tournament without drawing the ire of the poker world. These new tourneys are called Multi-Entry tournaments, and they’re just the latest innovation by Full Tilt. As the name implies, you can buy into the same tournament with multiple entries, which will be spread throughout the tables. Simply put, none of …

People are already excited about the 33% rakeback deals at Cake Poker as well as their $40,000 Diamond Mine poker tournament series. But now there’s even more reason to get excited since players can get into all 12 tournaments absolutely free courtesy of the Gold Card program. To get into each Diamond Mine tourney, you just need to have the right Gold Card(s). For instance, if you want to play in the first Diamond Mine tournament on January 10th, you need five 2d ‘11 Series Gold Cards. Now this might sounds like a lot, but you can easily pick these …

Ever since mainstays Annie Duke and Phil Hellmuth left Ultimate Bet Poker, UB has been looking for a suitable replacement(s) to fill their shoes. And it looks as if they’ve found at least one solid replacement in cash game specialist Prahlad Friedman. Friedman is a perfect addition to Ultimate Bet because he already plays a lot of poker games there; he can usually be found on the $25/$50 and $50/$100 Pot-Limit Omaha tables taking advantage of UB’s 30% rakeback deals. Friedman has been playing cash games since 1999, and has earned millions of dollars over the years. In addition to …

Most players are perfectly content with the 33% rakeback deals that DoylesRoom offers. But the great thing about DoylesRoom is that they are constantly giving people even more reasons to be happy with their incredible online poker deals. The latest deal involves a bounty poker tournament where players can potentially earn a bounty worth $50,000! The way the Bounty Tournament at DoylesRoom works is that three players will be marked before the event begins. If you’re able to knock one of these pros out of the tourney, you’ll earn $1,000; knock two marked players out and you will get $10,000. …

How much would you expect to pay in order to play for a $100,000 prize pool? $100? $200? At most online poker rooms, this is exactly what you’ll pay. And if you’re lucky, you might be able to make it to the $100,000 poker tournament through a freeroll or satellite. Of course, at Full Tilt Poker, you can bypass all of the satellites and expensive buy-ins by playing in their Big Little Tournament. The Big Little Tournament only costs $2 + $0.20 to play in, and you’ll be able to compete for the aforementioned $100k prize pool. Of course, if …

While the generous 35% rakeback deals at PlayersOnly Poker will already make you feel like royalty, their Tourney King promotion could make you feel even closer to the throne. If you’d like to reign supreme over the online poker world, download their poker software and start playing in as many multi-table tournaments as you can. Every poker tournament you play in gives you a shot to earn points and move up the monthly leaderboard. And just to make sure that everybody has a fair shot at being crowned king, PlayersOnly is running both a High Limit Leaderboard (buy-ins of $20 …

If you’re tired of buying everybody else presents this Christmas, why not do something for yourself and play in PKR Poker’s Christmas Cracker event. Christmas Cracker is loaded with gifts since it’s going to offer 12 different events with $258,000 in guaranteed money on the table. Assuming you’re interested in playing in this event, the first Christmas Cracker poker tournament kicks off on December 23rd with a $7,000 guaranteed prize pool. Here is the full list of all of the poker games in Christmas Cracker. December 23rd, – $7,000 prize pool, $15 buy-in December 24th, – $10,000 prize pool (Deep …