On Tuesday, September 16th, Kyle Zartman took first place in the $20 rebuy tournament on FullTiltPoker for $4,830. Nice job Kyle.

Final Table Team had a decent night tonight. There were 158 entrants in the nightly $100 cubed (1 rebuy, 1 add-on) tournament on FullTiltPoker.com, and Billy and Craig took 1st and 2nd place! Billy recieved $9,018 for first place, and Craig took $5,678 for 2nd. Craig also final tabled the nightly $35k guaranteed tourney, with a 7th place finish. Our team name wasn’t hard to come up with, as you can see.

Yesterday, new Final Table Team member John Clancy took 2nd in the $40k guaranteed $163 buy-in tournament on FullTiltPoker (as “SkewpTroop”). He took home $9,881 for the finish. Good job John!

On just the first “official” day of John’s membership of Final Table Team, he made two final tables. First, John took 4th in the daily $35k guaranteed on FullTiltPoker (where he plays as “SkewpTroop”) for $3,876. Then, minutes later, he placed 7th in the $150 rebuy WCOOP 2nd Chance tournament on PokerStars (as “jclan5”) for $6,728. John is off to a great start as a member of Final Table Team.

Some major changes are taking place in the world of Final Table Team. We have collectively decided that these changes will help FTT move forward in our objective of becoming a balanced, close knit, well respected collection of poker players. (more…)

Yesterday, on Tuesday, August 26th, Craig “MrCasino” Gray set another personal best. Craig chopped the weekly $1,050 buy-in “Super Tuesday” tournament on PokerStars.com! He made a deal heads up with “BREAKURFACE” to take $68,500 apiece. After the deal was made, Craig won the heads up match for the leader board points. This win will rocket Craig up the rankings at PocketFives.com. Be sure to check out his article there, which will be up in the next few days.

We also want to congratulate our good friend John “jclan5” Clancy for taking 2nd in the $109 rebuy tournament for $22,192!

This article was recently featured on www.PocketFives.com

Being an online poker player, professional, part-time or amateur, means having our concentration and focus solely on the action at the table, either past, present or future. We can’t have distractions taking away from our full potential. Comfort with our equipment is one of the most important contributors to that success. (more…)

Our own Jason Gray is on a streak of sorts, which continued today with a first place finish in the daily $100 rebuy tournament on PokerStars.com. Jason went to the final table as the dominate chip leader, and completely destroyed the field. He was awarded $23,780 for the win.

Tonight Jason Gray placed 1st in the nightly $20k guaranteed $30 rebuy tournament on UltimateBet.com for $5,400! Final Table Team member Billy Westom also placed 7th for $1,000.

It’s pretty standard in my opinion. Today Final Table Team member Kyle Zartman shipped a tournament each on FullTiltPoker.com and PokerStars.com! First, Kyle placed 1st of 64 in the $88 buy-in 4-max tournament on PokerStars.com for $1,433. Then later on in the night, he beat 244 players in the $30 rebuy tournament (for the 3rd time this month!) on FullTiltPoker for a nice $5,951. Kyle continues to climb the leader board for Oregon on PocketFives.com, where he sits 8th, behind other FTT members Billy Westom, Jason Gray and Craig Gray.

Last night Kyle Zartman (thewood503) took down the $30 rebuy tournament on FullTiltPoker.com. Kyle beat out 253 players to receive $6,318 for first place. Great job Kyle!

Today Craig and Billy both made final tables on PokerStars.com. Craig took 4th place in the $25k guaranteed $109 NLH tournament for $8,100. Billy had another 2nd place finish, with a $10,540 score in the $25k guaranteed $55 NLH tournament. Good job to both.

Tonight Billy Westom made 3 final tables online, all on FullTiltPoker.com. First, Billy took 8th in the $17,500 guaranteed $75 buy-in tournament for $542. Next, he placed 2nd in the $24k guaranteed $120 Knockout tourney for $4,784. Last but not least Billy placed 3rd in the $33k guaranteed $100 1R1A tournament for $6,950. They say these online tournament scores come in spurts…

Tonight Jason Gray (BUBBLESftt on FTP) won the $33k guaranteed $100 1R1A tournament on FullTiltPoker.com! With a field of 192 players, Jason took home $13,284 for first place.

This article will be featured on www.PocketFives.com…

Life and Poker: Making Decisions

Hey PocketFiver’s. For those of you who don’t know me, my name is Jason Gray and I’ve been playing poker for almost seven years now, with the last three and a half as professional. I am one of the founding members of Final Table Team. I’ve put a lot of time in learning poker by using many tools, such as books, training sites, watching on television, talking strategy with friends, and obviously the most important thing: time at the tables. I’ve tried to learn to play most the popular games well, and have played low to high stakes limit, no limit, and pot limit cash games, sit and go’s and multi-table tournaments. Right now I specialize in MTT’s.

In this article I’d like to talk about what’s on my mind and current things within the poker world. (more…)

Tonight Craig (MrsESPN on FullTiltPoker) Gray outlasted 519 entrants in the nightly $65k Guaranteed $163 buy-in tournament for a first place prize of $19,600! This is just the momentum Final Table Team needs as the World Series of Poker Main Event starts tomorrow!

This article was recently featured at PocketFives.com…

WSOP Main Event: Managing the Mayhem

Do you hear that? Chips rattling, chairs squeaking, cards snapping, cameras rolling, pulses pounding, fists slamming, voices screaming and tears dropping. It can only mean one thing: the World Series of Poker No Limit Hold’em $10,000 buy-in Championship has arrived. Starting tomorrow, players from all over the world, including professionals, amateurs, online and live satellite qualifiers, young phenoms and old-school veterans, wealthy businessmen and just people taking their one last shot, will meet up at the Rio in Las Vegas to compete in the most prestigious poker tournament of the year. All members of Final Table Team (MrCasino, JasonGray, Octavian_C, jakz101poker, thetruth503, and myself) are here too, trying to do our best to prepare for the week-long grind. Although, before we dive head first into this shark pit, we are going to discuss some things we should keep in mind while playing in the largest and most exalted poker event on Earth. (more…)

Tonight Final Table Team member Kyle Zartman made two final tables online. First Kyle took 2nd in the $18,500 Guaranteed on FullTiltPoker for $3,323. Minutes later he placed 2nd in the $55 one rebuy, one add-on tournament on PokerStars for $2,090. Good job Kyle.

Last night Kyle (thewood503) Zartman won the Turbo Hundo on FullTiltPoker for $6,500! This is his second win in this tournament, with another first place finish awhile back while the Team was in Pendleton for the Wildhorse Poker Roundup. Tonight Kyle also took 2nd in the Turbo Fiddy on the same site for $2,700! Kyle has become adept to the “flip” side of MTT’s…

After a six way chip chop, Craig took home $55,000 at the Venetian Deep Stack Extravaganza $1,000 buy in tournament! This qualifies for Craig’s largest live tournament cash to date, and with the WSOP Main Event around the corner, Craig is ready for the week long grind.