Unless you’ve witnessed a ladies event before, you’ve likely never seen anything quite like it. A packed poker room, with every chair occupied by a woman fighting to capture a bracelet. While women have continued to increase their presence in the poker world in the past few years, it’s rare you see hundreds of
As they are wont to do, the WSOP has just released some of its notable numbers to this point, outlining some statistical highlights as of the end of Event #14.
With still 47 more bracelets to award, the numbers so far seem to be establishing the 40th World Series of Poker as, indeed, one of the [...]
Some days ago Gus Hansen stated in his blog that he will not be attending the start of the World Series of Poker in Las Vegas, but instead he will go to Paris for Tennis. Hansen implied that after a long walk in the Full Tilt tear machine he wanted a small break before new [...]
“Deal Me In” tells the stories of arguably the 20 best poker players in the world and how they turned out as professionals. Hellmuth went after the biggest names in the poker world and got who he considers the 10 best in the world and another 10 who are in the running for the top [...]
Cirque du Soleil founder and the high-stakes nosebleed poker player Guy Laliberté has been rumored to be the main candidate for the next commercial astronaut.
Various sources tells that he’s going to pay a visit to the International Space Station in September - this would make him the seventh private space explorer. Laliberte would be aboard [...]
Poker icon Doyle Brunson signed a worldwide management and marketing representation deal with Poker Royalty. The deal includes all major platforms, including media, sponsorship, licensing, commercial endorsements and appearances.
“Texas Dolly” Brunson is considered to be the poker’s modern day patriarch. No one can deny his achievements as the living legend has been in a major [...]
More big news for DTD now, as the English Poker Open is building momentum. The $1 million guaranteed event has already shifted 105 of the 270 $5300 seats, with 11 time bracelet winner Phil Hellmuth and European Ladies Champion Liv Boeree confirmed for the event. The Open will take place just before the WSOPE on [...]
The GreenJokerPoker team, who brought us the European Deepstack Poker Championships, held another adventurous format event over the weekend. A festival of deep stack, shorthanded poker with all 6 max tables for every event including the cash games. It’s very surprising that such a well organised and exciting looking event would have an overlay, but [...]
Whether it was for the chance of another overlay or just to show their support, the UK poker community was out in force at Dusk Till Dawn in Nottingham this weekend. Both guarantees were met in the £80,000 guaranteed (Which got a £97,500 prize pool and 325 entrants) and the £20,000 guaranteed (£21,000 prize pool [...]