PokerStars, Full Tilt, and Cake all specifically announced they would match all player donations made on their sites. According to the Poker Players Alliance, more than 50,000 players donated to the cause, raising over $760,000. With the sites’ matching donations, that means more than $1.5 million will be given to Haiti relief efforts from the poker community.
CardPlayer.com: Poker Players Donate $1,5 Million to Haiti Relief Efforts
The actual figure has to be much bigger, though. Compare it to this quote from Pokerstars:
The official relief effort ended 12 hours ago. When all was said and done, PokerStars players had donated $746,390.26, a figure that PokerStars will match for a total donation of $1,492,780.52 to the International Federation of Red Cross and Red Crescent Societies.
Pokerstars.com: PokerStars Haiti appeal tops out near $1.5 million
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If there ever was a time for the poker community to truly show its passion for charity, these next few days would be the perfect opportunity.
ESPN Blog: Tournaments created to help victims in Haiti
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If you’re anything interested in how to play expert short handed, you need to mosey on over to Pokersavvy and watch Andrew ‘Focault’ Brokos talk his way through final table of the Full Tilt 100K guaranteed. The package is two part, but Pokersavvy has released part 2 as a freebie. It picks up when the game is three handed and proceeds into heads up.
http://www.pokersavvy.com/plus/fullpreview
It’ll probably disappear from the front page sometime in the near future, so watch it now. It’s not too long and full of good advice – as you’d expect.
/j.
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While tables requiring a bigger buy-in grew in popularity at rival site PokerStars in 2009, Full Tilt has increasingly become home to the phenomenon of “rat-holing,” in which players come to the site for its small buy-ins, win a large pot and then immediately take off with the winnings.
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The changes signal Full Tilt Poker’s intention to try to take on its major rival PokerStars, which it has long been in competition with for supremacy in the
online poker world.
Online Casion Reports: Full Tilt Poker to Make Big Changes
Still no news on FTP aiming to compete on customer support. My own personal experience with FTP support is a bit outdated, but it was one reason I decided not to play there anymore, back in Oct. 2007
Anyway: Annoying as they are, short stacking hit-and-run players can be really profitable, if you know how to play them, and how to excersize good tilt control. If you don’t – well, don’t go there, but I guess I don’t need to tell you – you most likely already know. Right? Thought so, too.
But really – trying to stamp them out is a wee bit too much, in my opinion. People should be allowed to play short stacked if they want to. Other people should be allowed to ask them to buy in full or leave the table.
/j.
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