Tuesday, March 18, 2008

Poker News - #371 – NBC Heads-Up Championship #21 – Queens Rule – Match Two - Ferguson

#371 – NBC Heads-Up Championship #21 – Queens Rule – Match Two - Ferguson
Cards were in the air for Match #2 in the best-of-three format at about 7:45 PM. Andy Bloch was responsible for me meeting Penn Jillette and Jimmy Carter on the same day. Chris used to be an avid basketball and...

#362 – NBC Heads-Up Championship #12 – Highlights from High Noon
In the second pair of brackets today, Clubs/Spades, all but one of the matches ended in 70 minutes and without as much weird action has the Diamonds/Hearts round of 32. I was saving up my round-up notes for the end...

PokerNews and Full Tilt Poker Launch $87,500 Worth of WSOP Freerolls!
PokerNews and Full Tilt Poker give you the chance to take home one of seven $12,500 World Series Packages beginning Sunday March 23 at 15:00 EST...

#370 – NBC Heads-Up Championship #20 – The Brain Trust - Match One - Bloch
To me, this is almost an anticlimax. Andy Bloch? Chris Ferguson? How could I choose between them. They both enriched the FULL TILT POKER STRATEGY GUIDE tremendously, and well as my own skills and my life. Two of the best...

Swedish Decision Halts Net Gambling Media Prosecutions
A decision by an agency within Sweden's Prosecution Authority has been made to halt prosecutions against Swedish media companies who accept advertising from Internet gambling services. The new court order, issued by UC Malmö...

Full Tilt allows more than one account for CardRunners players
Full Tilt Poker recently announced a deal with the Web site CardRunners.com that will have many of its top young poker players join the online poker site to play. The biggest news to come out of this, beyond the signing itself, has been a change ��...full article

full_tilt_logo4.gifFull Tilt Poker recently announced a deal with the Web site CardRunners.com that will have many of its top young poker players join the online poker site to play. The biggest news to come out of this, beyond the signing itself, has been a change to FTP policy to allow CardRunners players to have more than one account.

From pokerkingblog.com:

Full Tilt have announced that they will be making an exception to their “one account per player” policy. They will basically be allowing Cardrunner pros to use “alternate” accounts while they are filming their instructional videos. These “alternate” accounts would be used to disguise the true identities of the person behind the account, presumably so as not to influence the play of the other people at the table while the filming is taking place.

Also, Full Tilt goes on to say that at the end of the recorded session, all of the other players at the table will be notified by email as to what happened, and they will be rewarded with a “small token of appreciation” for their participation.

Lastly, Full Tilt states that anyone who loses money to the pro will be given “additional compensation”, but doesn’t say exactly what that would be. FTP points? A hat? Reimbursement of their lost funds? One can only assume that the player will not be getting their money back.

Whole thing here.

The possible problems are many, from FTP making exceptions to its own rules for pros, to regular players possibly feeling cheated because of playing against a “hidden” pro.

There has been quite a buzz on many poker forums about this issue, and a lot of questions about this policy change remain unanswered. Look for more as this story develops.



Poker Room Review: Cities of Gold Casino, Sante Fe, NM
This may be the least apt name for a poker room I have ever encountered. Cities of Gold, in spite of the best efforts of its small staff, is just about the dingiest, least appealing casino and poker room that I have visited...

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