It’s felt like months since I’ve had anything to say or even been able to get onto a table – I’m terrible with time – but strangely it’s only been about two weeks. The internet has been up and down more times than a yo-yo, costing me a few blinds every time I attempted to [...]

So people have been asking how it’s been going. Well, I guess this would be the best place to post it. I want to get the blog up and running again, so why not answer some questions. 1) How has it been Going pro? It’s been great. I love the playing full time, I love [...]

I have to admit, most of my articles give advice that is hard to understand. When you don’t understand preliminary concepts to the ideas of talking about, it’s almost impossible to truly understand anything I or high stakes players talk about. In later articles I’m going to try to use examples where the opponents are [...]

We have all heard of, and probably watched, “HighStakes Poker” on GSN on Monday nights; the game where the world’s best players put up at least $100,000 of their own money in one of the most exciting games ever. Well, recently Erik Fast and Zack Messer have brought us an entertaining cash game with the [...]

Every aspiring poker player dreams of that glorious shorthanded final table that only the WPT can produce. As we rolled into Day 4 at the WPT Borgata Poker Classic there were still 27 players who had only that on their mind. Well, maybe they were thinking about the $1.4 million first place prize as well! [...]

Poker enthusiastic students at universities such as Yale, Harvard, USC and UCLA have been given the chance to join a chapter of a new poker society: the Global Poker Strategic Thinking Society. The goal of this society is to bring to the academic environment poker as a game of skill and not as a game [...]

Once again, poker was the game of choice to raise money for a good cause as Geoff Jenkins, MLB outfielder, hosted a charity tournament at the Jack Rabbit Supper Club and Lounge in Arizona last night. Recently signed as a free-agent to the Philadelphia Phillies, Jenkins decided to raise some money for the Boys and [...]

The Borgata Winter Poker Open is coming to a close as the Main Event is heading into Day 3, with the L.A. Poker Classic starting, the EPT in Dortmund looming, as well as the World Series of Poker Circuit stop in Rincon just beginning. Despite having a great structure, the WPO (Winter Poker Open) is [...]

Poker professionals crowded the final tables this week. Brian “Sn8wman” Hawkins, ranked in the top 100by pocketfives.com, won the Poker Stars Sunday Million for a cool $278,000. High stakes HU and 6 max cash game regular Suck My Ace received 6th for about $62,000. The winner of the Sunday Warm Up was amateur fridhem, who [...]

This week I am continuing to write about the history of the most popular styles of poker that we see both in casinos and online today. Omaha is certainly one of the top contenders for this spot, right behind Texas Hold’em which I happened to cover last Sunday. One might think that Omaha originated in [...]