Beginning today, April 1st 2011 at 7 PM PST, Casino 580, formerly Lucky Buck Card Club, in Livermore, CA will be offering one of the only 15/30 Limit Hold’Em games in the Bay Area of California. The game will go down every Friday at 7 PM throughout the month of April and on into the [...]

By the 1970′s it was clear that not only was poker going to remain a permanent fixture in Las Vegas, but players were growing more and more fond of the freeze out tournament format as well.  Consider the first WSOP, played as a prolonged cash game. It featured one table of participants, and they voted [...]

I was sitting in an online small stakes mixed game the other night, and after leaving a modest winner, I turned off my PC and went on to another activity.  It was only then that I realized just how much history there was behind my even being able to do that in the first place.  [...]

Game Show Network’s “High Stakes Poker” telecasts have managed over the course of 6+ seasons to build a large and loyal following based on a surprisingly simple concept:  you can televise poker even when it’s not tournament play!  For many recreational players who participate mainly in cash games (including this author), HSP has been a [...]

The $1,000 Seniors No Limit Hold’Em event concluded at the World Series of Poker today with Harold Angle destroying the competition at the final table and taking down the tournament. At 78 years of age, Angle has been playing poker for nearly sixty years and is still a regular at tournaments in his home state [...]

The most popular poker room in Atlantic City is located at the Borgata Hotel Casino & Spa. There is always a ton of action at these tables, especially during the Borgata Summer Poker Open. However, until earlier this morning, there was $332,544 to be won at the Borgata Poker Bad Beat Jackpot. A bad beat [...]

It’s official: the world is ending soon. Phil Laak gave it his best effort to have a record to his name, in this case the “Longest Poker Game”, which was previously officially in the hands of Larry Olmsted. Larry Olmsted’s official time was 72 hours and 22 minutes, which he set at the Foxwoods Casino [...]

Remember the day that the purity of our live poker tournaments got tarnished with a crazy heist (that by-the-way had nothing on Ocean’s 11, but hey), armed to the teeth with revolvers and even old school machetes, finding their way home with some of the prize pool money? This incident took place on at the [...]

Phil Ivey is pretty much the world’s most feared professional poker player. He instills fear in others through his tough play, and his table demeanor, complete with crazy-looking wandering eyes for special effects. Phil Ivey is a Full Tilt Pro as you might know by now, and he has his own tables you can access, [...]

As some of you know, yours truly calls a Caribbean island home. You can also come and visit me if you want, and all you have to do is play online poker at the juicy tables of Ladbrokes Poker. We will play a friendly game of heads-up No Limit or Pot Limit Hold’em, and I [...]