If you are a golf fan, you have been privileged to watch Tiger Woods plying his craft from 1997 until now.  Granted, his last 18 months have been marred by personal problems, injuries, and a golf swing that seems to be in constant flux, but on the whole, you and I have never seen a [...]

Gus Hansen has been the story of the 2011 winners. Through the first half of 2011, when it came to professional players’ earnings, he was the far and away the name on top. Black Friday’s repercussions haven’t helped any of the U.S. based players. Celebrity poker players like Phil ‘OMGClayAiken’ Galfond, Phil Ivey, Tom ‘durrrr’ [...]

It has been said often that luck is what happens when preparation meets opportunity.  That might be true, but no one was prepared for the Black Friday shutdown of three of online poker’s largest sites, at least in terms of their US player bases.  In effect, the seizure of domain names for Pokerstars, Full Tilt [...]

Its tough to imagine a player repeating and winning back to back titles in a high buy-in event these days.  The fields are probably tougher than they’ve ever been, the players are busy and can’t always play the same schedules, and the events themselves change from year to year.  But as it turns out, if [...]

Two young phenoms, Tom “Durrrr” Dwan and Daniel “jungleman12″ Cates, were dueling again as part of the Durrrr Challenge 2 on March 29. This would mark the second time the two played in just a few days. Railbirds were informed via Dwan’s twitter with his “About to play a short session vs jungleman on FTP [...]

(TL;DR cliff notes at bottom). On Friday I set my facebook pic to Jamie Gold and I to gain his special powers. And I’ll be damned, it worked. I binked a WSOP ME seat on Saturday and it was quite the ride. Back up to August. My friends and I decided to take a trip [...]

PokerStars was proud to announce that poker sensations Daniel “KidPoker” Negreanu and Viktor “Isildur1″ Blom were to fight it out in Blom’s SuperStar Showdown. In fact, having Negreanu agree to this caused PokerStars to want to have them play multiple matches, or rounds, with the first round being played on March 20th and the second [...]

As March winds to a close, we are finishing up the first quarter of 2011. 3 months doesn’t seem like such a long time, but in the world of poker, 3 months is enough time to build or lose a fortune several times over. And that’s exactly what the pros have been up to. Gus [...]

The World Series of Poker (WSOP) Circuit $10,000 Western Regional Championship is well underway, and featured player Daniel Negreanu has made it down to the final 18, finding himself in eighth place. The tournament, being played in San Diego, has a prize pool just short of $1 million. With a $10,000 buy-in, it attracted 98 [...]

Down on your poker luck, who doesn’t think of the famous Jack Straus maxim “a chip and a chair”? Twenty-nine years ago, in the 1982 World Series of Poker tournament, Jack Strauss was reduced to nothing but a $500 chip and his chair. Days later, creating the legend of one of the most amazing comebacks [...]