PKR version 2 review
August 3, 2010 | Published in: Poker room news
Yesterday, 2nd of August, PKR finally launched the new version 2 of the client software with some drastic changes.
The look and feel has changed as you can see in the main lobby. All cash games are in one list which you can filter (NL, PLO, PLO h/l - NL, Limit, PL - min/max stakes).
Same goes for tournements only the overview of the chips is a little different (big improvement). You can also see you current place and amount of runners in the upper right corner.
Another big “improvement” is multitabling: before the max tables was 4, now it is 9. BUT our first impression is that multitabling doesn’t work that great. A lot of blinking, slow switching between tables and laggy play (must be temporary) doesn’t encourage us to play on multiple tables. The overview of 4 tables (see example) is very busy and anoiying
Back on playing 1 table the handling is good: bigger check/call/raise buttons, 2x/3x/4x and potbet buttons, option to resize the interface and (not that important but still nice) the option to show flags.
Conclusion: much improvement but not all that great! We expected more but I think you guys will have to apply some patches by PKR in the near future. Cheers!
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Odonkor1 flops a royal flush in a $40k pot
July 22, 2010 | Published in: Poker room news
Swedish pokerpro Joel “Odonkor1″ Nordkvist and Ashton “theASHMAN103″ Griffin played heads-up @ a $100/$200 table and all the money went in preflop (almost $40,000). Griffin flops topset versus the royal flush of Nordkvist!
Seat 1: Odonkor1 ($72178 in chips)
Seat 4: theASHMAN103 ($19228 in chips)
Odonkor1: posts small blind $100
theASHMAN103: posts big blind $200
*** HOLE CARDS ***
Odonkor1: raises $400 to $600
theASHMAN103: raises $1450 to $2050
Odonkor1: raises $2350 to $4400
theASHMAN103: raises $14828 to $19228 and is all-in
Odonkor1: calls $14828
*** FLOP *** Jd Td Qd
*** TURN *** 3d
*** RIVER *** 5h
*** SHOW DOWN ***
theASHMAN103: shows Qh Qs (three of a kind, Queens)
Odonkor1: shows Ad Kd(a Royal Flush)
Odonkor1 collected $38454 from pot
*** SUMMARY ***
Total pot $38456 | Rake $2
Board Jd]
Seat 1: Odonkor1 (button) (small blind) showed Ad Kd and won ($38454) with a Royal Flush
Full Tilt Poker presents FTOPS XVII schedule
July 12, 2010 | Published in: Poker room news
Full Tilt Poker presented the XVII schedule with $25,000,000 GTD. The 34 events will take place between the 4th and 15th of august 2010.
Full Tilt included the new poker variant (Rush Poker) with the PLO hi/lo Knockout, some NLHE and PLO turbo’s, a rebuy rush and a Super Turbo Rush.
Buyins varies between $109 and $2,100.
The two “big” tournements are the $2.100 NLHE ante from start 6 max tournement with $2 mln GTD and the $640 main event with $3 mln GTD.
| Event | Datum | Soort | Guaranteed | Buy-in |
| 1 | 4-Aug | No Limit Hold'em | $ 750,000 | $ 216 |
| 2 | 5-Aug | Pot Limit Omaha hi/lo Knockout Rush | $ 200,000 | $ 256 |
| 3 | 5-Aug | No Limit Hold'em 4x shootout 6max | $ 300,000 | $ 322 |
| 4 | 5-Aug | HORSE | $ 200,000 | $ 535 |
| 5 | 6-Aug | No Limit Hold'em 1 Rebuy + 1 Add-on | $ 600,000 | $ 216 |
| 6 | 6-Aug | No Limit Hold'em Super turbo | $ 400,000 | $ 322 |
| 7 | 6-Aug | Stud hi/lo | $ 100,000 | $ 216 |
| 8 | 7-Aug | Pot Limit Omaha 6max | $ 350,000 | $ 535 |
| 9 | 7-Aug | No Limit Hold'em Rebuy | $ 600,000 | $ 109 |
| 10 | 7-Aug | No Limit Hold'em Turbo Rush | $ 350,000 | $ 216 |
| 11 | 8-Aug | No Limit Hold'em KnockOut | $ 800,000 | $ 129 |
| 12 | 8-Aug | No Limit Hold'em Headsup | $ 500,000 | $ 535 |
| 13 | 8-Aug | No Limit Hold'em | $ 1,250,000 | $ 322 |
| 14 | 9-Aug | Omaha hi/lo | $ 150,000 | $ 216 |
| 15 | 9-Aug | Pot Limit Omaha Turbo Rush | $ 200,000 | $ 322 |
| 16 | 9-Aug | No Limit Hold'em | $ 1,250,000 | $ 1,060 |
| 17 | 10-Aug | Pot Limit Omaha / Pot Limit Hold'em | $ 150,000 | $ 216 |
| 18 | 10-Aug | No Limit Hold'em Turbo | $ 400,000 | $ 216 |
| 19 | 10-Aug | No Limit Hold'em 3x shootout | $ 350,000 | $ 535 |
| 20 | 11-Aug | 7- Game | $ 150,000 | $ 216 |
| 21 | 11-Aug | No Limit Hold'em Super Turbo Rush | $ 250,000 | $ 216 |
| 22 | 11-Aug | No Limit Hold'em 6max Rebuy | $ 1,000,000 | $ 322 |
| 23 | 12-Aug | Pot Limit Omaha HeadsUp | $ 200,000 | $ 322 |
| 24 | 12-Aug | No Limit Hold'em Cashout | $ 150,000 | $ 216 |
| 25 | 12-Aug | Stud | $ 100,000 | $ 216 |
| 26 | 13-Aug | No Limit Hold'em 6max | $ 400,000 | $ 216 |
| 27 | 13-Aug | Limit Hold'em Rush | $ 150,000 | $ 216 |
| 28 | 13-Aug | Razz | $ 150,000 | $ 322 |
| 29 | 14-Aug | No Limit Hold'em + Ante f/start 6max (2day) | $ 2,000,000 | $ 2,100 |
| 30 | 14-Aug | Pot Limit Omaha Rebuy | $ 400,000 | $ 109 |
| 31 | 14-Aug | No Limit Hold'em Super Turbo Knock Out | $ 400,000 | $ 535 |
| 32 | 15-Aug | No Limit Hold'em KnockOut 6max | $ 1,000,000 | $ 256 |
| 33 | 15-Aug | No Limit Hold'em Rebuy Rush | $ 750,000 | $ 163 |
| 34 | 15-Aug | FTOPS main event No Limit Hold'em | $ 3,000,000 | $ 640 |
| $ 19,000,000 | $ 12,559 |
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Rush Poker on Full Tilt Poker
May 28, 2010 | Published in: Poker room news
For those of you that don’t play Full Tilt Poker or just didn’t hear of it: Rush Poker is Full Tilt’s latest hot thing. Poker for action junkies, Rush Poker automatically deals you into a brand new hand at a brand new table the very second you fold.
There’s no downtime at all: fold and you are instantly back in the action. There’s even a quick-fold button that allows you to fold the second you get your hand, regardless of your position.
There is a lot to tell you about this new poker but images and experience is much better. So enjoy the video and then create an account at Full Tilt Poker.
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PokerStars introduces Daniel’s Room
May 27, 2010 | Published in: Poker room news
Online poker room PokerStars shook up their lobby this week with the introduction of Daniel’s Room, a collection of high stakes cash game tables spotlighting lead pro Daniel Negreanu. All 3 tables are 6-max and have a minimum buy in of 100BBs and a maximum buy in of 250BBs. The poker room sais they plan to roll out more limits and games in the future.
There are some vague assurances that quality play on these tables could lead to a spot on a future Stars television program, but one would imagine that Stars will have to do more than tell players that “any player that impresses Daniel may even get invited to take part in a future PokerStars TV show” to really generate interest.
