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Vicky Coren-Mitchell Leaves Team PokerStars Pro
Coren-Mitchell said on her personal blog the split was amicable but she was uncomfortable with the company moving into the online casino market. Despite her departure from the company Coren-Mitchell...
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Jaffe Snags WPT Montreal Title for $463k, Pahuja Just Short Again
The 27-year-old from Burlington, Vermont defeated Toronto's Ratharam Sivagnanam heads-up to finish things off after just 135 hands at the final table. Already with two WCOOP titles to his credit,...
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Daily 3-Bet: Galfond Engaged, Newhouse Heartbreak, Jaffe Jet Packs!
Have something you want featured in a future 3-Bet? Let us know in the comments. Today in the 3-Bet we find the sought-after Phil Galfond taken off the market, the crushing moments shortly after Mark...
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PokerStars Details Casino Rollout, Ability to Opt-out
Jeanne David, the Responsible Gaming Manager for the Rational Group, penned a blog post where she contended the company would continue to operate its games - no matter if they are poker or casino - in...
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Daily 3-Bet: Brazilian Poker Frenzy, Cost of PokerStars Swag, Poker Night...
You can always leave suggestions for future 3-Bet pieces in the comments section below. In today’s 3-Bet we’ll looking at the rising popularity of poker in Brazil, the dollars and cents of PokerStars'...
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Hand of the Week: Fedor Holz Teaches a Master Class
The Vienna-based German recently won the WCOOP main event as CrownUpGuy, he has five cashes and a win at EPT Barcelona. Only days ago he won the Mega Poker Series main event. Our Hand of the Week...
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Rant: Let's Get Over Our Hypocrisy in the Vicky Coren Mitchell Affair
This Vicky Coren Mitchell thing is really interesting. I've read through her post on 2+2 and, unusually for posts on 2+2, there seems to be a widespread respect for her actions. There is hardly a...
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High-Stakes Report: Hansen Returns, Ivey Collapses
The biggest winner of the week probably should have been Viktor Blom's old nemesis SanIker. The still unidentified German won hundreds of thousands early in the week but then proceeded to lose it all...
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Mizrachi, Matusow Behind New Bitcoin Poker Site Get Lucky Poker
The site, which already appears to be in beta and counts "1,011" players, is set to officially debut in January with Bitcoin the only currency accepted. Mizrachi enlisted Mike “The Mouth” Matusow,...
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Daily 3-Bet: Negreanu Peace, Dreyfus Plea, King of Online Gambling
Have something you'd like featured in a future 3-Bet? Let us know in the comments. Today in the 3-Bet we find Daniel Negreanu offering his thoughts (and balance sheet) in response to the Vicky Coren...
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Daily 3-Bet: Negreanu > Ivey, TCOOP Giveaway, 6 FPP PCA Dream
Have something you'd like featured in a future 3-Bet? let us know in the comments. Today in the 3-Bet we find Daniel Negreanu putting a surprising trouncing on Phil Ivey in the popularity game, $27...
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Jason Alexander: “George Costanza Would Be Terrible at Poker”
Alexander's played in poker games with the likes of Teri Hatcher and Kevin Pollak, but has stories about legendary games that range from old-school bouts between Steve Martin and Neil Simon to current...
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Ronaldo: "The Pressure of Being the Best Never Bothered Me"
In a world of countless of Ronaldos, there’s really just one. Ronaldo is only of three people on the planet to have won the FIFA World Player of the Year award three or more times. He's also won the...
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Josh Kay Defeats Martin Finger to Win Inaugural LAPT Bahamas
The $3,000 buy-in event drew far more players than tournament staff had predicted. Early, conservative estimates had the number at about 450 but the tournament drew 736 players instead. When that...
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Hidden Dreams of a Beauty Queen with Sara Chafak
“I’m the kind of person who doesn’t want to know [what the future holds],” Chafak said. “I just concentrate on the moment and on my dreams. “You never know what’s going to happen in life and I don’t...
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Laura Garzon's 6 FPP Journey to the 2015 PCA
It started with a 2 FPP rebuy qualifier in the PCA Megapath on PokerStars. Garzon then busted a few times and had to rebuy twice. Luckily for her, that’s all it took to advance as she only had 7 FPPs...
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Walter Fisher Leads After Day 2 of PCA Main; Ronaldo Still in Game
A total of 514 players came back for Day 2, all with hopes of becoming the next PCA champion, but now only 175 remain after five levels of play. Fisher has been having a good PCA so far. Just a few...
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Prague Booms, Berlin Idles, Amsterdam Eyed as EPT Checks Options
The EPT's future in London may also up in the air. Still, with numbers rising in several locations and a promising new destination in Malta already in the cards for next year the outlook for the...
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Martin Hruby: "Catching Fish is Always On My Mind"
With thousands of poker players streaming into Prague for the ongoing Eureka Poker Tour/EPT series this week it appears the Czech Republic is still one of Europe's true poker hot spots. While that's...
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Chris Moneymaker: "You Either Evolve or You Get Passed By"
We've heard the story of the matching of their fortunes several times over but it never ceases to amaze how a random sequence of events in 2003 changed poker so much. Pushing into his second decade as...
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