April 2012

  • April 2012
  • 32 Cover Story: Jackson Vs Jackson – Father and son go head to head
    30 Broke in Vegas – What to do when one is impaled on the vicissitudes of ill fortune
    50 Ten Year’s of the WPT – Mike and Vince look back on their first decade
    60 Regulation: Online poker’s Third Age – The view from America
    Buzz
    10 Newswire – Rolling poker news from around the globe
    14 The Beat – With Neil “Bad Beat” Channing
    16 Big Deal – Nick Wealthall is locking and popping
    18 Being Phil Laak – Should we run it twice?
    20 Cashing Out – What to do when chips become money
    22 Virtual Felt – Snoopy meets Chris Brammer
    26 Bluff European Rankings – Who’s hot and who’s not and whatnot
    38 Raw Power – Nicky Power reports from the Irish poker scene
    40 The Ogmore Poker Tour – The lads go to the dogs
    42 De-Jen – Jennifer almost does her brains
    46 Road Gambler – Titanic Thompson, America’s greatest gambler
    48 Local Heroes – Supporting poker in the community
    58 Diamonds and Clubs – John decides to get healthy
    Poker Academy
    68 Caro – Things poker pros must never do
    70 The Wrap – Jeff Kimber on playing against the superstars
    72 Zimbler – Paul reflects on live and online
    74 Pickleman – The dos and don’t of social networking
    76 Alex Outrhed – Check yourself before you wreck yourself
    78 Amateur to Pro – Defending against the 3-bet
    80 Alex Fitzgerald – The weakness in pot control lines
    82 PokerPal – Size matters… again!
    84 Cardrunner – How to handle aggression
    86 Sports Centre – Francis James looks at boxing betting
    88 Live Scene – Poker games near YOU!
    96 Card Gang – Check out our latest freeroll

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The problem with this poker lark is that things don’t always go to plan. It’s been the fate of many of us poker players to “overextend” ourselves when visiting Sin City and end up epically doing our proverbials; in short: going broke. So, in case we’re ever accused of being too “aspirational” in this magazine, here’s our guide to hitting rock bottom. God knows, we’ve been there.

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Web 2.0 started off optimistically. It was supposed to be the ultimate form of mass media communication. The first stage was broadcasting, which was one to many – think early TV and radio. This evolved into narrowcasting, which was one to few – think Sky or cable TV with hundreds of channels.

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In the space of just over two months, Ben Jackson, son of Paul “Action” Jackson, steamrolled his way through the Coventry and Blackpool GUKPTs, winning two side events, finishing second in a main event and then final-tabling the Grand Final in London.

All the more impressive when you consider he’s only 18-years-old. We caught up with Genting Poker’s father and son team, two players who epitomise the old and new schools of poker.