One of the premier tournaments at the World Series of Poker over the past seven years has been the $50,000 buy-in Poker Players Championship, where players are tested in a variety of different poker formats in order to win not only a WSOP bracelet but also the ChipRead Full Article
Just days after winning the $10k HORSE tournament… *Err, wait a minute, it’s the other one, oh ok.* Let’s start this over: David “ODB” Baker (the other one) picked up his first World Series of Poker bracelet on Friday night after a monumental comeback in the $2,500 8-GameRead Full Article
After reading and reviewing Jared Tendler’s the Mental Game of Poker I had a chance to talk to the author about his book and pepper him with a few of my own questions about the mental game. Here is my interview with Jared. Read my Review of JaredRead Full Article
Since the poker boom there have been countless poker manuals that have hit the bookshelves, covering everything from No Limit Holdem (a very popular topic) to more specific entries like short-handed PLO games and shove/fold strategies in poker tournaments. But even with the hundreds of poker books thatRead Full Article
With the World Series of Poker just a week away poker players are getting ready for an insane two-month stretch, but the final weekend before the WSOP kicks-off had plenty of tournament action itself, as the PokerStars SCOOP series winds down and the WPT Championship takes place atRead Full Article
After the success of Full Tilt Poker’s innovative poker game Rush Poker it was a little surprising that more online poker rooms didn’t “Rush” to copy the new poker format that was taking the game by storm. One possible motivation for the other online poker sites sitting onRead Full Article
There is a new player in the televised poker industry, the iSeriesLIVE, but unlike its predecessors and the current incarnations of televised poker shows, iSeries is putting a whole new spin on the staid programming that poker fans have grown accustomed to. The iSeries will be an invitation-onlyRead Full Article
PokerStars’ version of former rival Full Tilt Poker’s Rush Poker has been in beta-testing at the site’s play-money tables for close to a month now, and late last week PokerStars announced that ZOOM Poker is still in the beta-testing phase, but would now be available at select real-moneyRead Full Article
Where to begin! There were so many stories over the past week in the world of poker that it will be hard to fit them all in this article. There are updates on the Jonathan Duhamel robbery situation, Thor Hansen’s battle with cancer, the Entraction Network has beenRead Full Article
The International Federation of Poker has won a major victory in their fight to have poker recognized as a “Mind Sport” across the globe. In a press release issued last week, the IFP was happy to announce that Brazil (the home of the 2016 World Mind Games) hasRead Full Article