High Stakes Poker TV Poker Show: Season 6
In case you like to watch high stakes NL Texas Holdem cash games on TV (like I do, for instance), then this will definitely be something of interest to you: TV Poker show High Stakes Poker season 6 is being broadcasted on GSN on February the 14th!
Hopefully the episodes will soon be available on the internet as well (for those of us who cant watch NBC TV channel)! According to the information in the video interview below (CPTV Poker Buzz) the season 6 is going to be worth watching for sure! Here is why:
The poker players involved in High stakes Season 6
This season’s lineup of poker players that will be playing in the show is pretty amazing (as usual I would say)! Lots of players have already participated in High Stakes Poker TV Show before. This includes professional poker players and celebrities like Daniel Negreanu, Phill Hellmuth, Phil Ivey, Antonio Esfandiari, Tom Dwan, Patrick Antonius, Mike Matusow and Gus Hansen.
We are going to see italian poker player Dario Minieri that has already played before (season 5 of High Stakes Poker). According to Wikipedia he is pretty much an online poker heads up specialists that plays online under the nickname »Dariominieri« and is also part of the Team PokerStars as well.
The blinds and the buy-ins
All players are going to be playing with their own money. Blinds are the same as in season 5 I think ($300/$600, antes: $200). This means big pots happening almost for sure and some of the players are going to get stacked pretty certainly.
In case Phill Hellmuth gets sucked out badly at least once, I am pretty much sure he will end up among the losing players. But ofcourse, lets wait and see. What about you, who do you think will be this season’s winners and losers?
Anyways, the minimum buyin is $200,000, but there is no limit to how much certain player can buyin for from that point up.
Other things worth mentioning
There has been some changes regarding commentators in the show. As you know, in previous seasons of High Stakes Poker, the hosts were Gabe Caplan and A.J. Benza. In this season though, Gabe Caplan co-host will be Kara Scott.
She will be interviewing players away from the tables through out the whole show with the intention to provide viewers insights into what strategies certain players are using and why. I do not know her from before, but obviously she is well known in the poker world as a professional poker player as well as poker commentator.
To sum it up: The show is by my opinion surely going to be very interesting to watch as well as learn new NL Texas Holdem things from the best players in the world! Do not forget to watch the below video interview about High stakes poker season 6 for more information about this TV Poker Show, which includes some interesting interviews with producers of High Stakes Poker and co-host Kara Scott:
So, what do you think, who is going to win money this year and who is going to lose it? I am really eager to know, so please leave it in the comments below : )
Online Poker Freeroll Tournaments at Full Tilt Poker
A couple of days ago I involved myself in my own Chris Ferguson bankroll challenge with a goal to build myself a nice bankroll of $10,000 starting with no money at all. So far I have already played a couple of online poker freeroll tournaments and will continue to do so until I win some money.
From then on my goal is to grind my way up by playing micro & low stakes online poker games. Hopefully getting into the money in the freerolls will happen soon, even though I had no success by now.
As you know, the online poker room I started to play freerolls on is Full Tilt Poker. This is mainly because I feel comfortable with the poker site and it attracts lots of online poker players as well, which means more weak players for me to beat once I get my bankroll rolling. To give you a better feel: at peak time there are over 100,000 players are logged in.
I have actually been playing poker on Full Tilt before, but it was never freerolls. So the first thing I had to do in terms of my Ferguson’s poker challenge was to make a research on what freeroll poker tournaments are available for me to join in. Here is what I discovered:
Full Tilt Poker Freeroll tournaments
Full Tilt Poker has lots of freerolls for me to join. Their website states that they have over 900 freerolls per month with a total prize pol of $85,000. That simply means I will have no problems with finding myself online freeroll to play (and win hopefully).
Daily online poker freeroll tournaments
Especially interesting for me are FTP’s daily freeroll tournaments. Full Tilt has twenty-four (24) daily freeroll poker tournaments open for every one to join. That means new freeroll tournament every hour! I think this is great because it provides me with lots of attempts.
If I get kicked out of the tournament quickly, I can still join another one if I want to and thus increase my chances of getting into the money as well.
The prize pools for these daily online poker freerolls stay pretty much the same throughout the whole day. You can:
- win a ticket or entry to Weekly Freeroll (where the prizepool is $1,000) hour in 12 tournaments per day or/and
- get yourself a share of $150 prizepool in 12 tournaments per day as well.
Other freeroll tournaments on Full Tilt Poker
Ofcourse, there are many other freerolls as well going on at Full Tilt Poker. Some of them are restricted and thus limited to only certain players (country specific freerolls, poker magazine freerolls and so on), but there are other interesting freerolls available as well, especially around big events, such as FTOPS XV.
For instance, I just registered to a freeroll named »FTOPS Warm up Freeroll«, where the first 200 players (so far 41,000 players are registered out of 60,000 possible) get an entry or ticket to the »FTOPS Turbo Warm up« (buy-in for tournament is $5.5).
The total prizepool for »FTOPS Turbo Warm up«, which btw starts on Sunday, February 7th at 13:45 ET, is $250,000 guaranteed and is limited to 50,000 players. Very good tournament I would say, especially if you manage to win it. On top of that, the winner also gets an entry to the FTOPS XV Main Event, worth $535!
As you can see, the Full Tilt Poker has a big selection of freeroll online poker tournaments as well! The only problem I see is the number of players that register to this freerolls. They get filled up to 10,000 players pretty quickly, which means I will have to be very persistent and willing to play a freeroll for three hours and more to get into the money.
That is it for now. Have fun and see ya around! : )
How to play Rush Poker: Basics and Tips from Howard Lederer
Find out about the basics of Rush Poker and read the Tips on how to play Rush Poker from Howard Lederer!
As you know, Full Tilt Poker has just recently launched a new way of playing online poker. It is called Rush Poker and I have already mentioned a couple of things about it in my previous post. Since this kind of online poker games are becoming more and more popular every day, more and more players are interested in how to play Rush Poker profitably.
If this is the case with you as well, then you should definitely read this blog post as it will provide you with some general guidelines or tips for playing Rush poker. It also includes a link to Howard Lederer’s article about this new way of playing online poker.
Anyways, because of its novelty, not much has been said, written and published about how to play these online poker games yet. So far, the only poker player who has written a couple of useful tips for Rush Poker is Howard Lederer (The Poker Professor).
You can read Howard Lederer’s tips by clicking on the following link: The Basics of Rush Poker
To continue with the basics: Before you rush out and involve yourself in these kind of online poker games, you should know that Rush Poker is different from standard online or live poker games in the following aspects:
You are up against large pool of players
Your opponents will be selected from the pool of up to 2000 players. This means you are not playing just against 6 or 9 players like in standard ring games, but instead you are facing new poker players basically every new hand.
The importance of table image is thus reduces significantly, but it is still advisable to observe your opponents and how they play online poker.
Time waiting for new hand is reduced massively
Whenever you fold a hand, you are instantly moved to another table and you instantly get dealt another hand. That means no waiting for the table to finish the current hand.
You get to play a lot more hands in the same period of time. According to Howard Lederer’s article, Rush poker allows you to play 300 hands per hour instead of 80 as in normal online poker games.
In the past, you could only achieve this with multitabling (playing more than one table at the same time), but not any more obviously. Ofcourse, you can still multitable on two different limits and play 600 hands per hour with just two tables!
You still pay for the blinds
Perhaps you are thinking something like this: I will only play big hands (like AA and KK) and will fold anything else. Well, you can do that ofcourse, but do not forget that you will still be paying for the blinds.
Do not relly only on the monsters pre-flop. Go out there and steal some blinds in Rush Poker as well, especially when you are in middle and late positions.
Get more Rush Poker Tips from Howard Lederer
To get more Tips about how to play and adjust yourself to Rush Poker games, make sure to read the article from Howard Lederer that I already mentioned above. Here is the link: The Basics of Rush Poker
With that said, I am really interested in what you think about Rush Poker. What is your experience with this game format? What do you like about it and what you dont like about it? Do you make more money with it or this game is not profitable for you?
Please, leave your reply in the comments below. Thanks and good luck at the poker tables!
My Chris Ferguson’s poker bankroll challenge
Starting with my own Chris Ferguson’s challenge by playing online freeroll poker tournaments
A couple of days ago I registered to one of the freerolls on Full Tilt Poker. This was simply because I have not played online poker for quite some time now and just wanted to play a couple of hands for the fun of it. But before even realizing, I involved myself into the Chris Ferguson’s poker bankroll challenge!
The idea of starting (or should I say: embarking on) my own Chris Ferguson’s poker challenge came all of a sudden to me. It was never planned or premeditated, it just occured my mind when I was waiting for my online freeroll to begin.
I said something like this to myself: »Hey, you have no bankroll at all to play poker. Why dont you build yourself one by doing exactly what Chris Ferguson did on his poker challenge from Zero to Hero?« And the decision was made!
In case you do not know what Ferguson’s poker challenge is all about, then I suggest you read the following two blog posts I wrote some time ago:
- Chris Ferguson’s poker challenge: From Zero to Hero and
- Poker bankroll management by Chris Ferguson.
To sum it up: My main goal is to build a poker bankroll of $10,000 starting with no money at all. Since I have no funds to play poker with, I have no choice but to start playing freeroll poker tournaments until I get myself some funds to actually buy into a tournament or cash-game.
From then on I will be closely following bankroll management rules, which Chris Ferguson used in his challenge where he went from zero to a bankroll of $10,000. Since I wont be working on my bankroll challenge every day (due to lack of time mostly), I set myself a goal to achieve this in 5 years from now.
I have already made one video regarding my challenge on my Youtube channel explaining more in details about the journey I am about to embark on. Here it is:
The thing I forgot to mention is this: In case I do not manage to get some funds from the freerolls for lets say 6 months, I will deposit some cash into my poker account and start playing on the micro limits and go on from there. This is because I know how hard can freerolls be to get into the cash.
As I said I will start playing on Full Tilt Poker (you are invited to play online poker there as well, click here to register), but will be looking out for other online poker freerolls to join in as well.
Whenever I find a good freeroll to join in (big prizepool, small number of participants), I will tell you about it on my blog or in the Youtube videos I will be making. Therefore, make sure to subscribe to my blog or Youtube channel.
That is it for now, have fun and stay in touch!
Latest promotions from Full Tilt Poker – January 2010
Find out about the latest promotions and action at online poker room Full Tilt Poker!
Hey poker players! It has been a while since my last blog post. Hope all is going well for you. Since I have not had an opportunity yet to say it, here it is: I wish you a happy, healthy and successful year of 2010!
At the sime time I would like to thank you for being the reader and subscriber of Online Poker Guide: Thank you!
Today I got some news regarding online poker room Full Tilt Poker and their latest promotions and action. In case you play at FTP, then there is a chance you already know about it as they have sent out an email newsletter about their latest promotions and other interesting stuff. Anyways, here it is:
Video lesson by Erick Lindgren: Playing the final table in MT Poker Tournaments
There is a new video available for you to watch and learn from it at Full Tilt Poker Academy. In this poker video Eric Lindgren explains and demonstrates how to dominate the MTT final tables with a big stack and what to do when things are not going as planned.
Basically what you will learn is how to play final tables in Multi-Table Poker Tournaments from the person who has had big success with it. You can also take the Lindgren Challenge and earn yourself Academy Credits for completing it!
Full Tilt Poker has a new poker format: Rush Poker
If you like to play online poker as fast as possible, then FTP has exactly what you are looking for: Rush Poker! Basically, the Rush Poker is extremly fast paced and intense way of playing ring poker games, where you join a large pool of poker players and face different players every hand.
That means that every time you fold your hand you get transfered to a new online poker table. The time spent waiting for another hand is thus reduced significantly as you immediately get dealt another hand at the table you were transfered to! Pretty cool, isn’t it?
You can play anything from high stakes NL Texas Holdem to micro & low limit Omaha with more than thousands of players participating. Just check out the FTP lobby widgets for information on how many players are currently playing Rush Poker.
I have not had an opportunity to play this poker format, but it sure does sound very interesting. The FTP Pros agree with that, for instance Patrik Antonius says it is especially suitable for grinders.
FTOPS XV starts on 10th of February 2010
Full Tilt Online Poker Series XV starts on 10th of February 2010. This time with 27 online poker events and with a total prize pool of more than $17 Million! You can also win entries for the as much events as you want by playing in the FTOPS XV Satellite Challenges on Full Tilt Poker.
To sum it up: Big action, lots of events and lots of money up for graps. Definitely something you do not want to miss out! That is it for now. Good luck at the tables and see ya around!
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