There have been a number of poker tournaments that have grabbed headlines for reasons other than what happens on the felt. From the Big One for One Drop to the Epic Poker League, the poker world has had plenty to digest regarding everything from structural issues, to what’sRead Full Article

One of the biggest poker tournaments of the year takes place in December, when the biggest names in the game head to Las Vegas to compete in one of the flagship tournaments on the World Poker Tour, the WPT Doyle Brunson Five Diamond World Poker Classic. The WPTRead Full Article

There have been two debates raging on social media and across the poker world of late, as players debate whether tournament structures are too fast or too slow, and more recently the prevalence of reentry events, and whether or not they are hurting the game. Overall it seemsRead Full Article

The World Poker Tour schedule has been hectic as of late, with tournaments kicking off the moment their predecessors have concluded, and as 2012 comes to a close the WPT schedule isn’t slowing down. In the past week or so we have seen the WPT Montreal and theRead Full Article

The tournament poker world is always a hectic place right before Christmas, and with the PokerStars PCA and the Aussie Millions occurring in January the schedule only gets more intense. In this installment I’ll update you on some recent results from events around the world, as well asRead Full Article

My poker library became slightly larger recently when I received a copy of Reading Poker Tells, by Zachary Elwood. Elwood is relatively unknown commodity in the poker world, but after reading through his contribution to the ever-growing library of poker books one thing is for certain; the manRead Full Article

While the poker world still waits for IveyPoker.com to offer more than a landing page (many people are still asking, “What is it?”) the site, headlined by Phil Ivey, is still trudging forward and signing poker players, even if they don’t have a specific role with the siteRead Full Article

Part 1 of this series took a look at the forgettable moments in poker during the course of 2012; in Part 2 I examined the themes that dominated poker throughout the year; now the final installment of this series will cover the individual achievements that took place duringRead Full Article

In this series I’ll recap what were, in my opinion, the biggest poker stories and moments of the year, including overarching themes, singular moments/achievements, and of course the moments we wished never happened. In the first installment I discussed the moments poker players would like to forget, butRead Full Article

This is the opening salvo in a three part series that will examine the biggest stories and themes in poker over 2012: To start this series off I will look at some of the black-eyes the poker world received in 2012. Part 2 will focus on the biggestRead Full Article