March 2010
“The Pants Principle”There is an unfortunate dilemma that afflicts all UK casinos when setting rules for poker games – they have to prevent the vagabonds and scumbags from taking advantage, at the expense of other players.
October 2009
Blogging the WSOPE final tableI would like to recite from my fuzzy memory – It all began at the Empire Casino in Leicester Square London where, fresh-faced and organised, I rocked up to the Press Room on the opening day to begin coverage of the World Series of Poker Europe.
August 2009
Warming up for the WCOOPThe PokerStars World Championship of Online Poker commences next week and oooooooh isn’t it exciting! Yes, after the FTOPS managed to attract mammoth fields - generating hundreds and thousands of dollars for each event’s prizepool - the WCOOP is looking to follow suit and also smash their own guarantee of over $40 million.
Let the Games begin...The FTOPS begin tonight and many of the online poker community will be logging on to Full Tilt to play in Event #1 $200+16 Super Stack with a massive $1 Million guaranteed. However playing all these events could be exhausting not to mention a tad expensive...
July 2009
There will be blood!Greetings fine warriors of the e-Age! On this day I shall spill my heart out to Bluff Europe readers and in turn, when the crunch time arrives, there will be blood.
June 2009
The WSOP has arrived and so have ICombine the sweltering heat, the sticky keyboards and the constant trips to the water cooler, not to mention the consistent murmur of poker whatnot and the merry cash games in the boss’ absence, and you should get a rough picture of what the Bluff Europe office is like in the months of June and July.
April 2009
0.333333 reoccurring cents per hourI always get excited when I hear of the imminent launch of some really interesting new poker product. This is not because I’m inspired by the creativity and tireless endeavour of the innovators within this industry, although I am... sometimes.
January 2009
2008: What The Year Meant To PokerIt’s handy for those of us who have been working too damned hard or just too damned busy couped up in an online poker room. So what did 2008 mean to poker? Dave Bland discusses.
December 2008
60 Minutes Bad Timing For Poker?Everyone knows how costly bad timing is in the game of poker. You’ve analysed someone’s game perfectly; you know their lines inside and out and when he shoves the river you know he’s representing the nuts or nothing – since you have the blockers to the straight you make the call with fourth pair and oh, wait, he has a set. Damn.
November 2008
Obama Runs GoodIn light of the newly-renovated political world coupled with the impending economic crisis and strife in the Middle East, what I really want to know is this: why on earth aren’t Christina Lindley and Lacey Jones on the front cover of Bluff Europe as well as our American counterpart? I’m not denying that John Juanda is one damn sexy man (and I suppose a near-million pound cash helps his appeal somewhat) but he’s not quite one buxom blonde, let alone two.