09 August 2010
Finnish online pro wins Unibet Open Prague for €157,000
The Unibet Open flew out to Prague along with a host of pros including Bluff Europe columnist Alex Rousso for the Main Event, a €1,650 buy-in affair that saw 424 players stump up the cash to compete for a prize pool totalling €636,000.
06 August 2010
BLOG - ESPN's World Series of Poker
Personally, I hate watching televised poker tournaments. I'm not taking the "hurrr durrr donkaments are all luck" line that cash game aficionados love; I'm criticising the everyman's broadcast of poker tournaments. Ivey, Hellmuth and Negreanu prove that there is skill in tournaments.
Liv Boeree leaves Team UB’s group of poker pros
EPT San Remo winner and poker beauty extraordinaire Liv Boeree has left controversial online poker site UB, which was formerly known as UltimateBet.
What Jerry Yang has done with his millions
In 2007, a Vietnamese psychologist named Jerry Yang won the World Series Of Poker Main Event by making a backdoor straight with pocket eights. Three years later, the Pocket 8s Sushi and Grill plays host to a huge crowd every Friday in California as Yang has become a legend among the Asian community.
05 August 2010
British Poker Awards – voting has begun
It can’t be argued that 2010 was not an incredible year for UK poker – Praz Bansi and James Dempsey did a real number at the WSOP with Stuart Rutter and Neil Channing coming close to gold on a number of occasions – furthermore, two EPT titles came back to Blighty this year as well.
GUKPT Luton begins this weekend – G Casino satellites on offer
The sixth run of the Grosvenor UK Poker Tour begins this weekend at G Casino Luton, culminating in a £1,070 Main Event that you can get into on the cheap if you play your cards right – literally.
Tamas Lendvai wins largest ever Italian Poker Tour event
Italy’s largest ever poker tour, hosted by PokerStars.it, saw a Hungarian man claim the title after conquering a field of 504 players in the €2,200 main event of the PokerStars Italian Poker Tour’s stop in Venice.
Stringfellows to host Baller Strip Poker championship
While this does sound somewhat like an excuse to get drunk, play poker and look at naked women; it is actually a heartfelt effort to raise money for cancer awareness. Honest.
PokerStars EPT to return to Austria for Season 7
Austrian poker players really have got something to get excited about now that PokerStars have announced the newest stop on the European Poker Tour to be, in fact, an old stop on the European Poker Tour.
04 August 2010
BLOG – Coming out of the online poker closet
“So, what do you do for a living?”
“What line of work did you say you were in?”
“Oh, where do you work?”