July 2008
Nik Persaud: So Solid“Can you believe they had Doyle Brunson on the front cover last month, and this month it’s… me?” marvels Nik Persaud over drinks-on-the-job in Shoreditch. “My mum will be thrilled!”
June 2008
Doyle Brunson: The Godfather is made an offer he can’t refuseJust a few months shy of his 75th birthday, Doyle Brunson has seen it all in the poker world. His résumé you already know: ten World Series of Poker bracelets, a World Poker Tour title, $5.3 million in career tournament earnings and author of arguably the most important poker strategy book ever written, Super System. He’s also beaten the highest stakes games the poker world ever known, including being a part of the now-famous Andy Beal heads-up matches.
Annette Obrestad: Eyes Wide ShutArmed with just a single Post-it note and a Jedi-like prescience, Annette_15 famously won a $4, 180-player tournament without looking at her cards. Playing cheap tournaments blind can be a great way of honing your instincts and situational awareness. Here’s some invaluable advice from Norway’s foremost diminutive poker diva.
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.