The Poker Blog

You can now get the very latest Poker news from Full Tilt Poker by visiting the Betting Directory.

The current new stories include:-

Erik Seidel Takes Second Down Under

Congratulations to Team Full Tilt’s Erik Seidel on his stellar performance in the 2008 Aussie Millions Main Event. Seidel finished second and banked AU$1 million for his play.

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Lee Watkinson Takes Down Event 7 at Aussie Millions

Congratulations to Full Tilt Poker’s Lee Watkinson for taking first place in the 2008 Aussie Millions $3K Pot-Limit Omaha with Rebuys event. Lee worked his way through a tough field of veteran players, including Full Tilt Poker’s Andy Black, Steve Zolotow, and Max Pescatori, to earn over $108K.

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Howard Lederer Wins $1.25 Million at the Aussie Millions

Congratulations to Team Full Tilt’s Howard “The Professor” Lederer who won the Aussie Millions prestigious $100,000 buy-in event, taking home the biggest payday of his professional career.

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Joe Beevers Rubs Out the Competition at the Poker Millions VI

Congratulations to Full Tilt Poker’s Joe Beevers who claimed one of the most prestigious titles in poker by winning the Ladbrokes Poker Millions VI.

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Ferguson Wins Record Third WSOP-C Ring

Congratulations to Team Full Tilt’s Chris Ferguson on becoming the first player to win three WSOP Circuit Event Championships. Ferguson took home a Circuit ring and over $200K for his victory in the WSOP-C Lake Tahoe event.

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The Betting Directory have added Prime Poker to their directory of online poker rooms.

Prime Poker is a brand new online poker room which also offers a no download instant game action, for those who want to get straight into the action, using your browsers and a java plug-in.

Its poker game software is very realistic and almost resembles real poker game around the table with your friends or family.

Of course, they offer all cutting-edge features like statistical analysis of your game play, overall player rankings or options to graphically create the poker interface you like to play with.

The no download version means that you will not have to deal with long and annoying download times and as such you could play the games on any public computer in the world, if the place permitted gaming. In locations such as libraries or at airports where it is generally not possible to download software onto PCs.

Prime Poker provides you with their famous “Grand Prix” poker tournament, having a $30,000 guaranteed prize pool, and also powers several others named “Big Deal” or “Lucky Dollar” games.

Furthermore they offer you so-called private tournaments, a wide range of regular daily tournaments and “Sit and Go” cash games with limit no limit and pot limit games.

If you are new to the game a comprehensive poker school right on site is designed to help you. With instructions in the basics of the games, poker hand rankings, proper poker etiquette at the tables as well as a more in-depth history of game play, from which you can then analyse your bad plays and errors, to make sure that everything is covered at Prime Poker.

Current promotions at Prime Poker include a 50% Welcome Bonus for all new players up to $100, a 15% Reload Bonus every time you fund your online poker account with them and a $50 Refer-a-Friend Bonus when you successfully recommend Prime Poker to one of your friends or colleagues.

Needless to say, Prime Poker is officially licensed and regulated and features a friendly and competent 24/7 customer support operation, to answer your questions, there’s also an arsenal of hassle-free depositing options including (Neteller, InstaCash, Firepay, and most major credit cards etc.) which are also used when you cash out your winnings, of course.

Not only do they offer all well-known poker games. Part of their website is an online casino enabling you to play the most famous and popular casino games right in your browser. Again, there is no software download necessary.

The bottom line is you certainly can’t go wrong when you play poker at Prime Poker, sign up today and claim your deposit bonus.

The Betting Directory are pleased to announce that they have arranged with leading poker information site, Wise Hand Poker, to bring you their “The Wise Hand Of The Day” - a professionally written analysis of the hands that happened on the biggest tournaments in the World.

The latest one is from when Johnny Chan defeated Erik Seidel at the 1988 World Series of Poker to win his second consecutive world title. He was the last man to win two, let alone two in a row, but that wasn’t what made the clip of the final hand iconic; it was it’s bronzing as the ultimate hand of poker in 1998’s Rounders that set it apart from the others.

Read the full details at The Wise Hand of the Day, on The Betting Directory.