Vanessa Selbst, one of the most successful female poker players recently announced that she has parted ways with PokerStars. She has decided to quit playing professional poker for a living and is looking to pursue a career in finance. Selbst has been a member of Team PokerStars forRead Full Article
There were a number of highlights (as well as a few lowlights) in the poker world this past year, but let’s face it, events like Greg Merson’s WSOP win, the emergence of poker in Asia, the hacking and subsequent lengthy hiatus for the 2+2 poker forum, or GregRead Full Article
While it may not be on the Olympic schedule as a sport (or even as an exhibition event) there is a strong poker presence at the 2012 Olympic Games being held in London. Along with a number of athletes that have caught the poker bug over the pastRead Full Article
There’s a great line in the movie Major League where some Cleveland Indians fans are discussing the Indians roster when one guy says something to the effect of “I’ve never heard of any of these guys”; well, this is likely how many poker fans feel about the 2012Read Full Article
Black Friday shattered a lot of dreams and sent many poker players into a forced early retirement, but even before Black Friday the writing was on the wall; poker simply wasn’t as profitable as it used to be. First we heard of players “focusing on other interests” orRead Full Article
Earlier this year the World Series of Poker announced that the Big One for OneDrop million-dollar buy-in tournament had reached the 22 player threshold that was set to make the event a certified WSOP bracelet tournament. Now it appears the Big One for OneDrop is gaining even moreRead Full Article
Granted, the list of poker fails is a pretty lengthy one (after all, this is the game that gave us the terms robusto and busto); you have everything from dormant online poker rooms, to one of the wildest forum posts to ever hit 2+2, to the failed ideaRead Full Article
Earlier this week Daniel Negreanu sat down for an interview with the website pokerplayer.co.uk, who somehow always manages to bring out the best and most controversial remarks in Daniel –you may recall it was the same outlet that Negreanu infamously referred to Annie Duke as a C***in aRead Full Article
The first stop on the 2012 World Poker Tour (WPT) schedule marks the tour’s first foray into the Emerald Isle, as the inaugural WPT Ireland Main Event began on Thursday. Despite running concurrently with the PokerStars Caribbean Adventure (PCA) many of the top UK and European poker playersRead Full Article
It’s been a while since the Epic Poker League sent out a press release, which had me starting to worry about the fledgling poker tour, but with its third Main Event stop of Season 1 just around the corner the EPL released its latest presser on Wednesday, andRead Full Article