Today I am going to branch off in a new direction for my history of poker articles. I’d like to focus a little on the history of video poker and video poker machines. We see video poker everywhere, from the largest casinos to the dirty truck stop on the side of the interstate. Video poker [...]

General hand reading tips: When it comes to getting better in an early stage of your career, hand reading is a premium. You can understand poker as much as you’d like, but it’s not going to help if you can’t read hands well. It’s hard to know what to do when you have no idea [...]

Some of the world’s best poker players gathered at the Commerce Casino for the L.A. Poker Classic this past week. With a buy-in of $10,000, 665 participants created a huge $6,374,400 prize pool with $1,596,100 for first place. After five days of No-Limit Holdem and hundreds of busts, the 6-handed final table was finally determined [...]

Jesse “Spoonitnow” Eddlemen found poker 4 years ago during his freshman year in college, although he did not take it seriously until two years ago.  In light of UIGEA, Eddlemen withdrew his whole bankroll; he was only having marginal success anyways . However, when he realized the legislation had no teeth he put $200 on [...]

In the last two days, i’ve pulled 3 third place finishes, busting out on stupid hands but still getting ITM, one of which really surprised me… I was down to 460 chips, with everyone (four others) all over $2,000.  They were all trying to grind me out, but one of them caught big cards, went [...]

It has been recently announced that poker professional, Antonio Esfanidiari, will join the World Poker Tour as a representative for the WPT Poker- Made Million.  The Poker-Made Million currently comprises of an exclusive group of 84 players, who have become self made millionaires whilst playing on the World Poker Tour.    The WPT will use Antonio’s poker [...]

at the proverbial end of the tunnel?  Last evening I participated in one $2 SNG tourney, 9-handed on FTP.  Analyzing what happened… I started out with a mistake… —–Hand 1—– [b][color=green]Hero’s M = 33.00[/color][/b] Full Tilt Poker Game #5413953444: $2 + $0.25 Sit & Go (41191113), Table 1 – 15/30 – No Limit Hold’em – [...]

My last couple articles have been documenting the 2008 PartyPoker Premier League, and I’m back to write about the most exciting part of the event: the final table. The last time I wrote, the playoffs had ended and the final table had been determined. There were 1.5 million chips at the final table, and here’s [...]

We’re looking at less than a week before the February Full Tilt Leaderboards are finalized and we’re looking at a new batch of winners. The New Year has brought with it a couple great and exciting months as far as leaderboards are concerned, and they’re bound to continue that way. Players have been up and [...]

Yes, it’s bad grammar.  Duh. Ok, so when I started this poker journey, it was more of a fluke.  Maybe that is why I am now shown as a fish on Sharkscope.  It’s true, look me up.  I don’t pretend to be great or hide from my mediocrity.  I am what I am. That in [...]