Posted by Steve Ruddock on Jun 13, 2013 Posted in Poker Player News, WSOP News | No Comments »
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Davd Kitai was already considered the best Belgian poker player in the game, past or present, but his WSOP bracelet win on Tuesday – the second of his career– pretty much cemented that legacy, at least for the time being. In addition to being a two-time WSOP braceletRead Full Article

Posted by Steve Ruddock on May 28, 2013 Posted in Interviews, Poker Player News | No Comments »
Little01

Jonathan Little is a two-time World Poker Tour champion with nearly $5 million in career tournament earnings, and over the past few years Little has been divulging his secrets through his online poker training website www.floattheturn.com, as well as in his recently concluded 3-volume series, Secrets of ProfessionalRead Full Article

Posted by Steve Ruddock on May 27, 2013 Posted in Poker Player News, Tournament News | No Comments »
daniel-negreanu

After over 15 years of professional tournament poker, 2013 has already been one of the best years of his storied career, and considering we haven’t even hit the halfway point, and still have the World Series of Poker to play, Daniel Negreanu could conceivably put together a yearRead Full Article

Posted by Steve Ruddock on May 17, 2013 Posted in Poker Gossip, Poker Player News | No Comments »
Jamie Gold

This summer poker players will have two chances at winning a World Series of Poker Main Event Championship bracelet: The first way is the more traditional of the two; playing and winning the WSOP Main Event, but there is also another way, a more modern way, which isRead Full Article

Posted by Steve Ruddock on May 13, 2013 Posted in Poker Gossip, Poker Player News | No Comments »
Annie Duke at the WSOP

The Ultimate Bet Super-User scandal that rocked the online poker world back in the midst of the poker boom is back in the news as a series of secretly recorded audio-tapes (allegedly recorded by Russ Hamilton) have been released by Ultimate Bet insider and former Russ Hamilton confidanteRead Full Article

Posted by Steve Ruddock on May 08, 2013 Posted in Legal Poker News, Poker Player News | No Comments »
Phil Ivey

In August of 2012 the poker world discovered that Phil Ivey runs even better than we thought, as he booked a £7.3 – £7.8 million (about $12 million) win playing Punto Banco Baccarat at the London casino Crockfords. However, it also turns out that he can run reallyRead Full Article

Posted by Steve Ruddock on Apr 18, 2013 Posted in Op-Ed, Poker Player News | No Comments »
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Full disclosure, Daniel Negreanu is my favorite poker player. We’re the same age and I got into poker around the same time that Daniel started winning major events, so I have always felt a sort of connection to him at a time when the average poker pro wasRead Full Article

Posted by Steve Ruddock on Mar 15, 2013 Posted in Poker Gossip, Poker Player News | No Comments »
Greg Raymer

A couple of days ago it was 2007 World Series of Poker Main Event champion Jerry Yang who was the focus of the poker world’s social media gossip when the IRS featured a number of pieces of Yang’s jewelry including his WSOP bracelet were put up for auction,Read Full Article

Posted by Steve Ruddock on Mar 13, 2013 Posted in Legal Poker News, Poker Player News | No Comments »
Jerry-Yang

Over the years a number of personal mementos from poker players have been pawned, auctioned or sold –for a variety of reasons—but this latest case is a bit different. 2007 World Series of Poker Main Event winner Jerry Yang is apparently in some hot water with the InternalRead Full Article

Posted by Steve Ruddock on Feb 07, 2013 Posted in Poker Player News, Tournament News | No Comments »
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With several major tournaments already in the books, the 2013 Poker Player of the Year race is already starting to take shape. Even though it’s still early we plan on updating our readers on each on the three major POY races: Cardplayer Magazine, Bluff Magazine, and the GlobalRead Full Article