10 September 2010
Hoy beats WPT champ Lewis to World Open Heat 5 win
It wouldn’t have quite been the EPT/WPT/WSOP Triple Crown but EPT and WPT 2010 champion Toby Lewis would have definitely added to his dominance of 2010 poker tournaments by taking down the PartyPoker World Open. Sadly it is not to be as he lost out to Dale Hoy heads-up after failing to outdraw KJ with 95s when the stacks got moved in before the flop.
Eric Bristow and Dennis Taylor in Irish Winter Festival prop bet
There are plenty of links between the worlds of poker, darts and snooker (and not just the preponderance of slightly overweight, pasty men who look like they've never seen daylight). Those links will be combined at the Irish Winter Festival this October with Eric Bristow and Dennis Taylor offering players a series of darts and snooker related challenges with poker prizes on offer.
09 September 2010
Party Poker World Open Heat IV result
Coolers come in a variety of temperatures. Some are chilly, others extremely cold but the one that Frank Kassela suffered at the hands of Yevgeniy Timoshenko was positively Siberian.
Credits, tournament packages and iPads on offer at Bidibot.com
If your bankroll is looking a bit stretched then online penny auction site Bidibot.com could be just the thing to boost it and all for a minimal cost. The site, which is aimed specifically at poker players enables players to pick up poker room credits for a fraction of their true value.
CalvinAyre.com to cover British Poker Awards
The first ever British Poker Awards are just days away and a host of media outlets are lining up to cover the prestigious event.
Go head to head with Titan Poker's pro team
TitanPoker is hosting a series of bounty tournaments that will give players the chance to go to head to head against the likes of Sorel Mizzi, Sam Trickett, Jonas Klausen and Marvin Rettenmaier.
08 September 2010
Party Poker World Open heat results (spoilers inside)
Bluff Europe likes to sprinkle some good poker karma whenever it can. We put James Akenhead on the cover and he goes and makes the WSOP final table. Ditto Michael Mizrachi. Andrew Robl may not have been the Bluff cover star yet but he did give an excellent lecture at Poker in the Park and has followed it up by winning a stacked heat at the Party Poker World Open.
Vanessa Selsbt leads Partouche Poker Tour Grand Final
Despite the presence of big names like Tom Dwan and Phil Ivey the Partouche Poker Tour Grand Final in Cannes has slipped under the radar somewhat. Over €5.5m in prize money is up for grabs with Vanessa Selbst in prime position to take the title.
BLOG - Understanding Poker
If you've ever watched a game at significantly higher stakes than yours - primarily the $40,000 to $200,000 buy-in ring games at Full Tilt - you will have seen players take lines and make bluffs or value bets that seem ridiculous; even bad. This is because they are not making plays based on the EV of their cards or their opponent's 3-betting range but on game flow, metagame and history with that opponent.
Shane Warne to launch his own poker room
The man who did more to terrorise English cricket in the 1990s and 2000s than anyone, Shane Warne, is expanding his business empire into poker.