It’s funny how “bold predictions” usually work.  You see sports analysts picking Super Bowl champions before the first week of games, and they’re usually wrong.  You see the weatherman guaranteeing rainfall or blue skies on a certain day, and he’s usually wrong.  In my case, I boldly predicted that Black Friday would take enough liquid [...]

I don’t know everything about your life, but I do know a few things.  First off, I know that you like poker.  In fact you like it so much that you actually seek out extra news coverage of poker, and incidentally you’ve found a great site for that!  I also know that if you like [...]

If you are already a player at InterPoker, then you’ll no doubt have a very exciting month with all of the promos already running on the site.  If you are a new player, there’s never been a better time to sign up!  InterPoker actually has three promotions running at the moment, and the great thing [...]

Recently on FTR.com we introduced you to the story of Jose Mecado, who is well-known in the poker world for his meteoric rise through the online stakes, and for his subsequent admission that he was scamming players on the Merge Network.  Mecado also admitted that he was helping other poker pros find action on lesser-known [...]

For some reason several of my friends in the poker industry have been very excited recently about this whole concept of “managing luck.” I think that part of it has to do with the fact that these friends are trying to prove how skillful poker really is as a game. In order to do that, [...]

“Good” is a matter of perspective, I guess, but if you have an affinity for China’s only legal gaming outlet, or you just like seeing global business ventures do well in the marketplace, then let me assure you that the news from Macau is good.  I am on record in this same writing space several [...]

It was interesting to look back this morning on my Day 4 recap from Saturday.  The numbers just seem so quaint and insignificant!  But alas, that’s the nature of tournament poker- the stakes keep rising, and adjusting your own stack accordingly is the key to surviving and thriving as the players drop and the prizes [...]

Poker players will tell you without hesitation that the WSOP Main Event has one of the best tournament structures in the game.  They’re right, and although it is a grueling test of physical and mental endurance, it is also one of the most fair tests given that the starting stack (and therefore the chance to [...]

One thing that I love about Poker is this almost obsessive-compulsive desire that many players have to make pithy, one-liner statements about the nature of the game.  It’s almost like the more quippy lines you have, the more equipped you are as a player – – for example, “You play the man, not the cards,” [...]

Event #55, The $50K Poker Players’ Championship, was a complete joy to watch and cover from start to finish.  Not only did it feature the game’s best players going at each other in an 8 Game mixed format, but it wound up producing an absolutely awesome and completely rail-bird friendly Final Table.  In the end, [...]