News Archive – Page №29
-
Vanessa Rousso: “Big Brother Was Harder Than WSOP” June 4, 2016Vanessa Rousso is a gamer. It doesn’t matter if she’s playing poker, chess or a reality TV show. Last summer Rousso had the opportunity to participate in long-running CBS reality…
-
888poker’s Jeff Gross: “Twitch Represents New Wave in Poker” June 4, 2016Jeff Gross will be flying the 888poker banner for the entirety of the 2016 World Series of Poker. The deal was announced earlier today and Gross, who has over $2.4…
-
Make it Rain! Kempe Tops Holz for $5m Super High Roller Bowl Title June 2, 2016After four days, hundreds of intense poker hands and (approximately) a thousand commercials for the Dollar Shave Club, it all came down to two Germans. And two German best friends,…
-
Boston Rob: “Daniel Negreanu Would Be Great on Survivor” June 2, 2016Boston Rob Mariano loves poker. It becomes clear within minutes of talking to him. He’s got a passion for the game that would put some fervent fans to shame. It’s…
-
WSOP Main Event Heads-Up Flashback: Joe Cada against Darvin Moon June 1, 2016It may have been one of the most unexpected World Series of Poker Main Event final tables in the last decade. In 2009, 21-year-old American Joe Cada became world champion after…
-
Nick Schulman’s SHRBowl Commentary: “I’m Calling It How I See It” June 1, 2016“Hey is that Jerry Seinfeld doing the commentary for the 2016 Super High Roller Bowl?” That’s what several confused viewers asked when they first tuned in to the Twitch stream…
-
Cash-Game Whiz Matt Berkey Steals Spotlight in $300k SHRBowl June 1, 2016Matt Berkey doesn’t have the name recognition of a Daniel Negreanu or Phil Hellmuth but he’s been the story of the 2016 Super High Roller Bowl so far. Primarily a…
-
John Morgan: “Most Players Start at $1/$2, I Started in Ivey’s Room” May 30, 2016There was a breakout star in the Aria Super High Roller series last year and it wasn’t a poker pro or social media celebrity.
-
The Shape of Poker to Come: Predicting Poker 5 Years From Now May 29, 2016During this year’s FA Cup Final former Arsenal defender Martin Keown – who was commentating on the game – said that the modern soccer game is ‘full of giants.’ Men…
-
Talal Shakerchi: “I Care as Much as Anyone Else Sitting There” May 27, 2016“Just took down the SCOOP Main for $1.5m!!!” There were three exclamation marks; not one, but three. That’s a lot of excitement to squeeze into a text message. I shout…
-
Daily 3-Bet: Coren in HoF, Northug Quits, Remember the Poker 90s May 26, 2016The PokerListings Daily 3-Bet is a polka-dot shirt, off-the-shoulder overalls and the fattest high-tops you can find at the afternoon poker news high-school dance. Have a piece you’d like to…
-
The $10m Question: Nine Facts about Poker’s Biggest Money Winners May 22, 2016How many players do you think have won more than $1 million in live poker tournaments over the past 40 years? A couple dozen? A couple hundred? The truth is…
-
Twitch Poker Spotlight: Watch TonkaaaaP Win Everything May 20, 2016The Twitch.tv poker train keeps chugging along and interesting streamers are starting to flood the site. One such streamer is super grinder Parker “TonkaaaaP” Talbot. Talbot has been around for…
-
Topless & Frisky: Global Poker League Gets Loose in Week 7 May 19, 2016Time zone confusion, lost laptops, Starbucks wireless, celebratory nipple rubs, players talking to each other during a match, a shirtless boss playing from a Jamaican beach … Week 7 of…
-
GPL 3 Stars Week 6: Fedor Holz Dazzles, Jonathan Jaffe Entertains May 13, 2016The marathon GPL schedule continued on Week 6 with hours upon hours of brand-new poker content to consume. At the risk of getting repetitive the Moscow Wolverines put in another…
-
Bendik Wraps Bang-Up Grand Final with First EPT Title, €961,800 May 6, 2016The last event of the 12th Season of the European Poker Tour is over, and what a week it’s been. Jan Bendik and Ole Schemion wrote the biggest stories in…
-
5-Day Festival, Habs Legends Welcome 888Live to Montreal in June May 5, 2016Not even two years after it was invented, the 888poker Live Local series has become so successful that Europe just isn’t enough anymore. 888poker’s popular low buy-in live tournament series…
-
Cry Me a Personal River: PokerStars Tests New Games at Grand Final May 5, 2016One of the great things about Texas Hold’em is how easy it is to learn. If you’ve been playing it for a while, though, you might be looking for some…
-
Hoivold: BOM Like Norwegian Championships w/o Rain and Cold May 2, 2016Norwegian poker pro Andreas Hoivold has been through some good – and some pretty tough – times in his life. And when we say “tough,” that’s understating the matter by…
-
Do the Tommy: Win a WSOP Main Event Package for 1c on 888poker May 2, 2016Playing in the $10,000 World Series of Poker Main Event is a universal dream for poker players, but given the prohibitive buy-in one only a select group can afford. But…