Eureka3 Croatia: The ups and downs of Team Online’s Dale Philip
Just what Dale Philip is doing playing this tournament today I don’t know. You see Philip, a Scotsman, who’s spent the last few years living in Thailand, is a member of Team PokerStars Online. And...
View ArticleNot all poker players have beards and smell bad
The image that people have of the average poker player is far from the reality. I did a little test. I walked around asking people how they think the average poker player looks. I received the funniest...
View ArticleWSOP 2013: "The Mirage One" freed to (belatedly) collect a hard-earned second...
The great English philosopher Roger Scruton writes extensively about what it means to be English. In his book England, an elegy, Scruton detailed the characteristics that are synonymous with the...
View ArticleAPPT7 Queenstown: It’s go time!
126 players took their seats three days ago in the APPT Queenstown Main Event with dreams of fame and fortune, but now those dreams are still alive for just nine. They are here today in the SKYCITY...
View ArticleThe curse of the bubble
In every poker player’s career, there comes that inevitable moment when they bubble. On the final table of any tournament, the fear of bubbling haunts players with all the venom of a gypsy curse. It...
View ArticleHow to Deal with Loose Aggressive Heads Up Poker Players
As anyone who has had the misfortune of playing a loose-aggressive poker player (LAG) heads-up will testify, at points in battles with these players it can feel like you are simply being engulfed in an...
View ArticleWhat happens in Macau… goes on the Blog!
The Asia Championship of Poker (ACOP) 2013 happened at the end of October and everyone I knew left the PokerStars Live Macau poker room at the City of Dreams Macau full of praise for the schedule,...
View ArticlePokerStars saddened by ‘avoidable’ NJ casino closure
As an eventful year draws to an end, we are saddened by the news that the Atlantic Club Casino Hotel in Atlantic City will be closed in the coming weeks after being sold through a bankruptcy court...
View Article10 Famous Casinos Poker Players Must Visit
There are thousands of casinos strewn across the world, but not all of them have special places in poker players’ hearts. This little article highlights 10 iconic casinos that every poker player should...
View ArticleGeorge Lind on his TCOOP win (and running hotter than the sun)
[unable to retrieve full-text content] George Lind has an explanation for his triumph in TCOOP event 15 this week. It’s nothing he ever learned, and yet it’s probably something any pro would opt for in...
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