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

In Part 1 of this series I detailed the utter fail that were my picks last year for Players to Watch at the 2012 WSOP, but I am on a mission of redemption this year, bringing you some unheralded players, and a few heralded thrown in as well,Read Full Article

Just when I thought I had the complete list of young German poker players nailed-down, what do I see when I look at the PokerStars European Poker Tour (EPT) Grand Final Super-High-Roller payouts; yup, 1st place Max Altergott, Germany! So now I’ll have to put Altergott on myRead Full Article

Every day the poker world is inundated with more news, reports, and gossip, than any of us can read. At PokerNewsBoy.com we understand that there are only so many hours in the day, and only so much time you can set aside to follow all of the storiesRead Full Article

A $100,000 price tag didn’t deter 42 players from entering the $100,000 Super-High-Roller tournament at the 2013 PokerStars European Poker Tour (EPT) Grand Final, not to mention eight players deciding that one entry wasn’t enough and decided to fire two bullets, including Phil Ivey who bought back inRead Full Article

It was the summer of 2011 when the poker world was officially introduced to a talented young tournament player named Steve O’Dwyer after he won the Bellagio Cup VII Main Event. Now, O’Dwyer wasn’t an unknown at this point in his career, he had already made a numberRead Full Article

The revelations in the recently released tapes by Travis Makar have brought the Super-User scandal that occurred at Ultimate Bet during the poker boom back into the spotlight, showing precisely how groundbreaking, heart-wrenching, and downright inexcusable the scandal was and is. The tapes released by Makar, a formerRead Full Article

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

The €25,000 buy-in High-Roller tournament at the 2013 PokerStars European Poker Tour (EPT) Grand Final allowed for each player to rebuy a singled time if they so desired, and after multiple players did decide that €50,000 was a reasonable price to pay for a shot at winning theRead Full Article

Every year I put together a list of poker players to watch at the World Series of Poker, so before I get into this year’s 10 selections let me recap the performance of the players that were chosen by me in 2012 and see if any of themRead Full Article