Texas Hold’em doesn’t look to be dethroned as the world’s top poker game anytime soon. Hold’em is easy to pick up, and most poker tournaments deal with Hold’em so it’s only going to get more popular. However, if you’re tired of taking bad beats and constantly dealing with the “luck” aspect, perhaps you should give […]
Dan Harrington and Erik Seidel have been chosen for the Poker Hall of Fame, thus bringing and end to the talk of having some younger players like Phil Ivey and Daniel Negreanu in the HOF. The choice to put Seidel and Harrington in the Poker Hall of Fame is a good one since they both […]
There hasn’t been a lot of progress in mobile phone poker lately; although a lot of companies have been working to speed things up by releasing poker applications. And Full Tilt Poker headlines the releases with “Rush Poker” for the Android. After months of working out the kinks, Full Tilt is rumored to be ready […]
It’s scary to think of spies being tortured until they spill their guts about everything they know. But it’s even worse when you hear about a spy who is instead given fame and fortune along with a platform to launch a new iPhone poker game application. Anna Chapman is a former spy from Russia, and […]
From the looks of things, Scott Montgomery has been living a fairytale life. He recently finished fifth at the 2010 WSOP Main Event and earned $3,088,012, he landed fellow poker star Annette Obrestad as a girlfriend, and is considered one of the top live tournament players in the world. Unfortunately, for every high there is […]
I must admit that when I first saw previews for the “World of Jenks” on TV, it wasn’t the most appealing show to me. Great….another documentary show by some lucky punk who got a deal right out of film school. But one episode caught my attention and made me actually sit down to watch the […]
Phil Ivey seems to be at the top of the 2010 Poker Hall of Fame list heading into the final vote. Ivey has been more successful than of the other players, and is even said to be the greatest poker player on the globe. His major accomplishments are: – An L.A. Poker Classic title in […]
Doyle Brunson is still at the top of his game at the ripe age of 77. Not only is he a successful poker player, but he still finds time for the ladies at strip clubs! He’s still playing in beer pong tournaments when most people his age are getting their drivers license revoked. And some […]
Besides several key members of Congress and the NFL, one of online poker’s biggest enemies has been land-based casinos. Now you’d think land-based casinos would welcome the idea of regulated internet poker and an end to the UIGEA. However, casinos have seen online poker as more of a threat than a friend in recent years. […]
Since the Unlawful Internet Gambling Enforcement Act passed in 2006, it’s been mostly quiet on the legal front in regards to online poker. Sure the poker news sites are constantly rolling out stories about proposed bill A in the works or how proposed bill B is buried in Congress just so they have something to […]