Xuan Liu and Sofia Lӧvgren Sign On with Team 888poker
Liu, one of the pros featured in our Easy Game documentary series last year, already has over $1.4 million in career live cashes including a $600,000 fourth-place finish at the PCA in 2012. She...
View ArticleTimex Chops FTOPS XXV Main Event for $200k
McDonald has dominated 2014 with two final tables at the Aussie Millions for $3 million in profit and second in the PCA Main Event for another $1 million. Last night McDonald had to get past Finnish...
View ArticleDaily 3-Bet: Ivey Unfazed, Phelps Unretires, Local Gets Bricked
Got a tip for a future 3-Bet? Drop a note in the comments and we'll gladly take a look. Today in the 3-Bet we find Phil Ivey forging ahead in the face of a $9.6m lawsuit from Borgata, Michael Phelps...
View ArticleParty Poker NJ Offers Last Chance into WPT World Championship
On April 17 Party Poker is set to run the Last Chance Tournament for $500. Winners receive a $15,400 seat into the WPT Championship, which will be held April 21-26th in New Jersey. The eventual winner...
View ArticleVictor Ramdin: “Ivey Saved My Career, Hellmuth is My Idol”
Victor Ramdin was born in Guyana and came to the US as a child. The high school dropout made a living as a taxi driver and real estate agent before he was introduced to poker. At that time he was 35...
View ArticleDaily 3-Bet: Absolute Retro, WSOP Requests, Selbst > Rafa
You can always make suggestions for future 3-Bet pieces in the comments section below. In today’s 3-Bet we’ll take a look at that whole Absolute Poker disaster, WSOP canvassing Twitter and Vanessa...
View ArticleJames Mackey, Matt Stout Highlight WPT Seminole Final Table
Mukul Pahuja, who already has two WPT final tables in the last 12 months, holds the chip lead with 18.8 million but WSOP bracelet winner James Mackey isn’t that far behind with 11.6 million....
View ArticleBorgata Lawsuit Shows How Phil Ivey Won $9.6m Edge-Sorting in Baccarat
Borgata filed the lawsuit last week but we now know even more about how he was able to pull off the almost eight-figure score. According to the lawsuit Ivey and an Asian woman named Sun (named in the...
View ArticleDaily 3-Bet: Esfandiari Cracks, Big-Time SCOOP, Position Plays
Suggest a topic for a future 3-Bet piece in the comments section below and we just might publish it. In today’s 3-Bet we’ll take a look at Antonio Esfandiari owning up to a failed prop bet, PokerStars...
View ArticleAfriat Outlasts Pahuja, Mackey to Win WPT Seminole
Afriat entered the final table as one of the middle stacks but quickly started building a massive stack and by the time heads-up play against Mukul Pahuja rolled around he had a massive 38-15 chip...
View ArticleRIP Ultimate Warrior: A Reminder Why I Play Poker
The death of wrestling legend The Ultimate Warrior was a wake up call for me. Our laptop screens are laden with death of every manner of celebrity, but this one stuck in my craw. On April 1st 1990,...
View ArticleDaily 3-Bet: Jedlicka is Unstoppable, Piece of Timex, NHL Antes Up
Be sure to fire suggestions for future 3-Bet pieces in the comments section below. In today’s 3-Bet we’ll take a look at Niki Jedlicki putting in another massive day on Full Tilt, getting a piece of...
View ArticleJohnny Lodden: “10 Years Ago Nobody Had Heard of Aggressive Poker”
There were numerous players who grinded out serious cash playing online tournaments but Lodden was one of the first players to truly elevate online cash games into the stratosphere. The Norwegian...
View ArticleParty Poker’s NJCOP Debuts Tomorrow
It’s the first time a major online series has been held in New Jersey and Party Poker has gone all out on the schedule. Playable on both the Party Poker and Borgata Poker sites there will be a total...
View ArticleDaily 3-Bet: Hellmuth Burger, BrokeLivingJRB Rumor, Bulldozer!
Chip in your own 3-Bet ideas in the comments section below. In today’s 3-Bet we’ll take a look at Phil Hellmuth starring in a Carls Jr. ad, Jean-Robert Bellande’s new ride and one of the all-time...
View ArticleZach Elwood Takes on Verbal Tells in New Book
Poker tells are considered one of the most misunderstood elements of live poker and Reading Poker Tells provided an in-depth and practical way to use them in real-life situations. Mason Malmuth, Jon...
View ArticleParty Poker NJCOP Buzz Reaches Fever Pitch
Later today the massive online series will begin with a $50,000 freeroll (4 p.m. ET to be exact) and it’s safe to say the New Jersey online poker community is fairly excited. This inaugural NJCOP will...
View ArticleRant: Poker Should be Part of Grade-School Math Curriculum
The former President of the Association of Teachers and Lecturers, Hank Roberts, is pushing for chess to be introduced in state primary schools in the UK. Roberts believes that playing chess, from as...
View ArticleVicky Coren Mitchell Becomes First Two-Time EPT Champion
It's the first time anyone has won multiple EPT Main Event titles. Coren Mitchell snagged her first PokerStars EPT title way in 2006 at the London stop, before marrying actor David Mitchell. “I’m a...
View ArticleDaily 3-Bet: NJ = Poker Haven, WPT Championship, Negreanu Defends Ivey
Make your own suggestions for future 3-Bet articles in the comments section below. In today’s Daily 3-Bet we’re all about New Jersey with a mainstream article about online poker, the start of the WPT...
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