Full Tilt Poker is hosting THE BIG LITTLE TOURNAMENT , which is a $100,000 Guaranteed Pot with a buy-in of only $2 +.20. There will be eight $100,000 Guaranteed tournaments with a guaranteed first prize of $9,000. The tournaments will be held every Sunday (Monday in Manila) starting July 8th up to October 24th. Satellites are also available for as low as 10 cents if $2 is a bit steep for your bankroll. Anyway - just click on the Full Tilt Poker banner to download the software and make a deposit. If you need help in making a deposit, then feel free to contact me, and I can give you suggestions, especially for players based in the Philippines.

I joined multiple tournaments at BetUS Poker playing 4 tournament tables simultaneously. First tourney was the $750 Guaranteed No Limit Hold'em for a $3 +.30 buy-in. 263 players entered with 50 places getting in the money, and the first place prize was a pretty decent $165.69. I played well enough to make ITM at 18th place to win $7.73. Another tourney was the $4,000 Satellite Turbo Rebuy and Add-On Six-Handed for $2 +.20. 22 players, 29 rebuys and 14 add-ons. First three places would win a $33 seat to the $4,000 Bounty Guaranteed. I played really well enough to make the final table, and with four players left the big stack SB pushed all-in to my BB. I was holding AK and made the call. The SB had Pocket Threes, which held up to eliminate me at fourth place, and short of the ticket. Instead, I win $15.30. Next tourney was the $1,500 Guaranteed Bounty No Limit Hold'em with a buy-in of $6 +.60, where $2 would be paid for every player you knock out of the tournament. 249 p...

548 poker players signed up for Event 53 of the 2010 World Series of Poker , a $1,500 buy-in Limit Hold'em Shootout tournament that netted a prize pool of $739,800. 64 places were to take a piece of the pie with the biggest piece being awarded to the champion 30 year old poker pro Brendan Taylor , who marked his first WSOP gold bracelet win and a first place prize of $184,950. The runner up was poker pro Ben Yu   from Henderson, Nevada, who happens to be a good fiend of Brendan Taylor . They actually share the same house in Las Vegas with four other pro poker players. Ben Yu won $114,484 for his second place finish, and perhaps a lifetime of trash talk from Brendan Taylor at their  house. According to Brendan Taylor and his thoughts on winning the much coveted WSOP gold bracelet, he said, “When I came out here in 2005, I told myself ‘I am going to win a gold bracelet this year.’ My goal was to win a limit event. Of course, I didn’t do it that year. I didn’t do it the n...

Event 52 of the 2010 World Series of Poker was a $25,000 buy-in Six-Handed No Limit Hold'em tournament, which netted a prize pool of $4.5 Million. 191 players entered with 18 places getting paid in the money. The biggest winner of all was 21 year old Villanova college student Dan Kelly , who won his first ever WSOP gold bracelet and a whopping $1,315,518. Dan Kelly had been winning online tournaments, and had yet to prove himself in a live tournament, and no better way to do it than with a huge pot at the $25,000 buy-in Six-Handed No Limit Hold'em event. The runner up was poker pro Shawn Buchanan from Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada, who has now cashed 17 times since 2007, and currently has eight cashes this year with this one paying out $812,941. Two-time WSOP gold bracelet winner Frank Kassela was the third-place finisher, who came close to winning his third bracelet this year.  Had Frank Kassela won, that would have matched the WSOP record for wins in a single ...

460 poker players competed for Event 50 of the 2010 World Series of Poker , a $5,000 buy-in Pot Limit Omaha event, which had a total prize pool of $2.1 Million. 45 entries would receive a part of that pot, and the biggest winner of them all was 24 year old poker pro Chance Kornuth from Denver, Colorado, who won his first ever WSOP gold bracelet and a first place prize of $508,090. The runner up was Kevin Boudreau from Colorado Springs, Colorado, who marked his fourth time to cash this year, and fifth cash overall, winning $313,792 for this effort. The third-place finisher was 26 year old poker pro Danny Smith from Folsom, California, who won $226,923. The fourth-place finisher was Ted Martin from New York, New York, who marked his second time to cash at the WSOP and biggest poker payout ever worth $165,825. The fifth-place finisher was Scott Mandel from Chicago, Illinois, who won $122,455. The sixth-place finisher was Julian Gardner from Manchester, England, who has 14 i...

2,543 poker players competed in Event 49 of the 2010 World Series of Poker , a $1,500 buy-in No Limit Hold'em tournament. 270 places would win a piece of the $3.4 million pot, and the biggest winner of all was 22 year old English major college student Mike Linn , who won his first ever WSOP gold bracelet and $609,493. Mike Linn already cashed three times at the WSOP, and his most notable achievement before this was placing 191st out of 6,494 players in last year's WSOP Main Event championship. Winning in poker seems to be running in Mike Linn 's blood as he is the nephew of poker star Barry Greenstein . However, despite this close connection, Mike Linn has never received advice or financial assistance with regards to poker. According to Mike Linn , Barry Greenstein advised him that he would have to graduate from college before he would receive any advice or even financial backing to stress the importance of finishing college. Luckily for Mike Linn , he already has p...

Event #48 of the 2010 World Series of Poker was a $2,500 buy-in Mixed Games event. Among the games featured in this poker tournament included Triple Draw 2-7, Hold'em, Omaha 8 or better, Razz, Stud, Stud 8, No Limit Hold'em and Pot Limit Omaha. In other words, the poker player who wins this has to be a master at all forms of poker games. 453 poker players went to prove their worth and a piece of the $1 Million pot. However, only 48 places would be paid. The biggest winner of all the 48 was none other than Norwegian poker pro Sigur Eskeland , who won his first WSOP gold bracelet and a healthy first place prize of $260,497. Sigur Eskeland explained that live poker is illegal in Norway, and he hopes that wins like his and his fellow Norwegians before him - like Thor Hansen and Annette Obrestad - will make them realize that it isn't gambling, but a sport which uses a lot of elements of skill. The runner up was former WSOP gold bracelet winner Steve Sung , who won the...

3,128 players signed up for Event 47 of the 2010 World Series of Poker , a $1,000 buy-in No Limit Hold'em tournament to compete for a pot worth over $2.8 Million. 324 players received a piece of the pot with the biggest winner being a 21 year old poker pro Shawn Busse of Massapequa, New York. Shawn Busse won his first WSOP gold bracelet in his 16th try this year to win a WSOP tournament. Shawn Busse failed to cash in the first 15, but in this one, he cashed the top prize of $485,791, which is certainly enough to make up for his other losses. His family had not been too fond of him taking up poker at the young age of 21, but it's really what Shawm Busse wanted to do, and a WSOP gold bracelet and almost half a million dollars should earn the nod of approval from his parents. The runner up was Owen Crowe from Darmouth, Nova Scotia, Canada.who markled his eighth time to cash at the WSOP to win $300,494. Owen Crowe ’s most notable previous achievement was a 15th-place fin...

Spain vs Germany for the Semi-finals of the 2010 World Cup. Spain last defeated Germany in the Euro 2008 Finals, and certainly Germany would like to see that loss avenged with a big win in the semi-finals over Spain . Spain had been favored to win the 2010 World Cup even before the tournament started. And for sure, they have played well enough to reach the semi-finals. However, Spain haven't been as convincing with their wins, only winning 1-0 over Portugal in the Round of 16, then 1-0 over Paraguay in the quarterfinals. Meanwhile, Germany have been impressive, racking up loads and loads of goals against very formidable opponents. Germany defeated England 4-1, and then defeated 2010 World Cup favorites Argentina with a score of 4-0. Miroslav Klose and Thomas Mueller of Germany each have scored 4 times in the tournament so far. Germany are capable of getting goals, and they will certainly put the defense of Spain to the test with their attack. Spain will have to step...