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Friday, 19 February 2010

News Item - Full Tilt

According to a source close to Full Tilt Poker, the site’s pros are able to play in any competitor’s open event. The squad’s ability to enter this weekend’s PokerStars North American Poker Tour (NAPT) Main Event appeared to be in doubt.
Whether members of Team Full Tilt or the site’s Red Pros will turn out to the $5,000 buy-in NAPT feature tournament remains to be seen. However, contrary to an article that appeared on ESPN.com, pros of Full Tilt are apparently more than welcome to buy into PokerStars-sponsored events. A source close to the world’s second largest online poker site told Poker News Daily, “Any Full Tilt pro, Red or member of Team Full Tilt, can play in any competitor's open event.”

Currently, Full Tilt sponsored pro Roberto Romanello is second in chips at the PokerStars European Poker Tour (EPT) Copenhagen event with 39 players remaining. Players like Phil Ivey and Andy Bloch, both members of Team Full Tilt, competed in last year’s World Series of Poker (WSOP) Europe Main Event, which is title sponsored by Betfair.

In 2008, Full Tilt Poker pro John Juanda took the prestigious tournament down for £868,000.

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Sunday, 14 February 2010

Congratulations to Julian Thew

Having played very little poker the past 12 months I decided to catch up with some of the forums and noticed that one player I really respect and enjoy talking to has been picked up by PokerStars as a sponsored pro.

Julian Thew is very well known on the UK poker scene and at my first live tournament back in Jan 2007 I happened to be sat with him for the first 2 hours. Over the next 2 years I played with him on 3 other occasions.

Link to Julian's profile here.

(Ironically he was the first player I profiled)

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