* Heads-Up Poker is extremely boring to watch This is a very important consideration for producers working on next year’s live feed, since poker in general is boring to begin with! During Sunday’s action it started off a bit slow, but well paced, and as players were eliminatedRead Full Article

Just before one of the greatest final table showdowns in World Series of Poker history, where two potential future poker giants Martin Staszko and Pius Heinz clashed in a heads-up battle that lasted over 100 hands, two other poker giants were honored with their induction into the PokerRead Full Article

Even though poker is a game of skill and requires extreme amounts of discipline and patience by its practitioners (if they want to be successful anyway), poker players simply can’t seem to keep from betting on virtually anything –although we usually look for favorable odds while doing so!Read Full Article

One look at Sam Trickett’s tournament results over the past two years and it would be hard to argue that Trickett isn’t amongst the top tournament players in the world, and the young UK star is about to add to his growing list of accomplishments as he hasRead Full Article

With a record-setting field and nearly $1 million set to be awarded to the winner of the 2011 WPT Borgata Poker Open tensions were running extremely high from the outset. There was no better evidence of this than a near altercation between final table chip-leader Fred Goldberg andRead Full Article

After a horrible 2010 online poker campaign, at one point causing him to quit poker towards the end of the year and leave Full Tilt Poker in the process –which was probably a good thing considering what has happened post-Black Friday—Ilari Sahamies has finally gotten back into theRead Full Article

Prior to Black Friday, PokerStars controlled an estimated 50% of the online poker traffic in the world, with Full Tilt poker a distant second with a further 25% of the online poker traffic. That left a 25% piece of the pie for the hundreds of other online pokerRead Full Article

Thanks to Black Friday, PokerStars has been forced to pull virtually all of their advertising from the US television market, and this means the loss of one of the most cutting edge poker shows since the advent of the hole-card camera, The PokerStars.net Big Game. The PokerStars.net BigRead Full Article

The bookmakers’ odds for the 2011 World Series of Poker Main Event final table are out, and there are some huge differences of opinion as to who will take down the WSOP Main Event, so in this article I am going to put my expert analysis to goodRead Full Article

It’s $10 Haircut time over at Titan Poker, as the site announced it would be running a huge promotion: Slashing its cash-game rake by 50% at most tables, while at the same time changing high-stakes cash-game rake collection to a fixed amount of just $.10 per hand. AccordingRead Full Article