May 2008
Neil Channing: Bad Beats - A Gambler’s struggle to surviveAnyone who plays tournaments long enough will eventually win some championship or other. Then three years will go by – you'll win nothing, lose all your money – and suddenly all you've got left is the delusion that you are a champion. – Neil Channing
Annette Obrestad: Exclusive InterviewAnnette Obrestad: unless you've been living under a poker rock, you will have heard of the young internet prodigy. Annette won last summer's World Series of Poker Europe Main Event, smashing records for youngest bracelet winner, biggest cash for a female player at the World Series events, and so on.
Sorel Mizzi: Exclusive InterviewBluff Europe loves playing poker. We like giving stuff away, too. That’s why we’re delighted to combine the two and bring you all the chance to play with two of the best young players in the world on May 20th at 8pm BST at the exclusive Bluff Europe freeroll.
April 2008
Back to Black: Andy Black and the Zen of PokerThe café of the London Buddhist Centre in Bethnal Green. Ladies in knitted hats and beads sit around breastfeeding and nibbling carrot cake. In the centre of the room, slurping a coffee with an air of blissed-out self-possession, sits Andy Black.
March 2008
Bertrand “ElkY” Grospellier: Master of all DimensionsBertrand “ElkY” Grospellier was one of the first westerners to play computer games for a living. His silver medal in the World Cyber Games in Korea bizarrely made the Frenchman a household name in that country.
February 2008
How to be Sammy FarhaOnce upon a time, there was a young Lebanese lad; a pool, Pacman and pinball champ, who left his homeland for Wichita, Kansas seeking a college education with nought but a pocketful of change and a bunch of big ideas.
January 2008
Scotty Nguyen: The End of the HiatusIt was 1:25am on July 16, 2007, less than a quarter hour after Scotty Nguyen had been eliminated from the Main Event of the 2007 World Series of Poker. Scotty had just completed a fall for the ages; he was third in chips when the field was reduced to eleven, only to be the next player eliminated. With the entire poker world watching, hoping for one of its heroes to thrive, he’d gotten overconfident… cocky. It was the cause of his downfall.
November 2007
Tony G: G-Forceony G – spiteful and poisonous to some, hugely entertaining to others, but few can question this enfant terrible’s awesome skills at the table. Off the felt he’s polite and meditative, on the felt he’s a monster. So, will the real Tony G please stand up?
October 2007
Annette_15: Babyface AssassinA slightly giddy Annette Obrestad joins Bluff in the VIP room atop the Empire just an hour after winning the World Series of Poker Europe at the age of 18 years and 364 days.
July 2007
Jamie GoldIt may not be a fashionable thing to say these days, but we’ve always found Jamie Gold to be a sweet, charming, if slightly eccentric, young man. Bluff caught up with him the morning before his first World Series event of 2007 to talk about the difficulties of being a controversial World Champion.