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Play for $100k in Guarantees in Spring Poker Series on WSOP.com
Starting Sunday, April 12, the 2015 Spring Poker Series on WSOP.com will offer eight exclusive tournaments and pay out $100,000 in guarantees. Action runs right through until the following Sunday,...
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Daily 3-Bet: Urbanovich Tops GPI, Poker Up 10%, ElkY Twitches
You can always make suggestions for future 3-Bet pieces in the comments section below. In today’s Daily 3-Bet we’ll take a look at Dzmitry Urbanovich getting some accolades for his dominant EPT Malta,...
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Dealers Calling Players Idiots Feels a Little Over the Top
That’s okay; I’ll take all the small ones and wait for a big hand to play a biggie. He limped in with Q9 off from utg+1. I raised six bb from the button with KK. He called, like he always does...
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Hand of the Week: When a Royal Flush Goes Terribly Wrong
Strictly speaking, though, in cash games it’s all about the money you win with it. This week we'll look at a hand recently played at the King’s Casino in Rozvadov, located on the German-Czech border...
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Daily 3-Bet: RAWA Petition, JRB Robusto, Born Poker Player?
Feel free to drop us a suggestion for a future 3-Bet piece in the comments section below the article. In today’s Daily 3-Bet we’ll take a look at a petition against RAWA, Jean-Robert Bellande with a...
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Who is the Greatest (Fictional) Poker Player of All Time?
This list was inspired by the Grantland.com post Who is the Greatest (Fictional) Basketball Player of All Time? and it'll follow similar ground rules. First, only fictional characters are eligible....
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Sexton, Dalla Saved By the Craic at Irish Poker Open
Iconic poker figure and writer Nolan Dalla, for example, is on his first trip to the second-longest running poker tournament after the WSOP and has already tried to sort out the lovely local accent....
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From Knee Deep to $1m Overnight: The Jack Hinchey Experience
You know, the ones they call “characters.” On the first day of the main event, I met a man named Jack Hinchey who was having a cigarette outside the Double Tree Hotel. He tells me he’s from Toronto,...
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Thor Hansen: Norwegian Icon, Poker Legend, Medical Phenomenon
He’s not just a poker icon; he’s also a medical phenomenon. "Nobody in Norway has ever lived with my condition as long as I have," Hansen says while relaxing outside the hotel smoking a cigarette...
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Donnacha O’Dea, Declan Connolly in Final 8 of Irish Poker Open
321 players registered for this year's main event in Dublin to play for the title of Europe’s oldest and most traditional poker tournament. The chip leader at this point is, fittingly, Irish poker...
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Ken Doherty: The Snooker Champ Who Stopped Crime for 3 Hours
When he came back with the Snooker World Championship Trophy in 1997 more than 20,000 people welcomed him at the airport. Usually, only winning football teams get that form of appreciation. Doherty...
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Nastiest Poker Hand Ever? Justice Served for "Disgraceful" Slow Roll
The hand began with Irish poker legend Donnacha O’Dea, who was one of the bigger stacks at that point, opening for 100,000 chips with A♣ 6♣. A short-stacked Gann made the decision to just call with K♦...
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Always Let the Fish Get the Last Word In When They Leave
The most amazing thing is not how good you can become. It's that so many people play it so badly. Like last Saturday when I popped by the grocery store to pick up bananas and water. The Line Started...
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David “Devilfish” Ulliott Loses Battle with Cancer
One of the most famous poker players from the U.K., Ulliott was famous for his suave demeanour, his orange sunglasses and gold knuckledusters that he wore at the tables. Ulliott was involved with...
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1 Simple Move to Improve Your Shortstack Poker Strategy (Video)
This video breaks down the basics of the stop and go and shows you when and how it's best put to use. When you have less than ten big blinds, a common strategy is to just move all-in before the flop...
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Triantafyllakis Thwarts Killeen, O'Dea for Irish Poker Open Title
Greece's Ioannis Triantafyllakis wasn't easily deterred, however. Coming into the final table second in chips Triantafyllakis steered clear of both unlucky set-ups and one of the most controversial...
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Harrington on Hold'em in 2015: "It’s at a Stalling Point Again"
Six of them, in fact. A son of Ireland who's come back to trace his family roots over the past few years, Dan Harrington is as pure of a poker educator as there's ever been. WSOP Main Event Champion...
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Grab an Early Bird Discount for the Award-Winning Battle of Malta!
For just €1,295 (Day 1b) or €1,390 (Day 1a) players can now pick up an early-bird package that includes the €550 Main Event buy-in, five nights accommodation at the 5-Star Hilton Malta, daily...
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Daily 3-Bet: Ivey in Manila, $2 Million WPT500, Long Live Devilfish
Have something you'd like featured in a future 3-Bet? Let us know in the comments. Today in the 3-Bet we find Phil Ivey hunting down some action in the Philippines, the WPT500 makes a big leap and the...
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Devilfish Blinked Back: The King is Gone but Not Forgotten
Captain Cancer won the last hand against Devilfish this Monday at home with his family. He leaves behind a wife, eight children and 61 years of Rock and Roll. From his last interview I take this piece...
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