Out of all the people who’ve won the WSOP Main Event, Chris Moneymaker has to be one of the most disrespected champions out there. The 2003 Main Event winner gained international fame after his win, but also had a spotlight put directly on his career afterwards. While he’s been in this spotlight, the only thing [...]
Continue Reading...A couple of posts back, I wrote about how the new NBC show Face the Ace is struggling mightily in the ratings department. In fact, for the second straight week Face the Ace finished dead last in ratings among shows in the Saturday night, 9 pm - 10 pm time slot. But I still managed [...]
Continue Reading...Anyone who plays poker long enough will find themselves in a situation where they’ve been delivered a horrible bad beat. Picture yourself holding pocket kings and flopping a set only to have the set cracked on the river by some dumbass who called your flop and turn raises for a runner-runner straight. And it’s all too easy to [...]
Continue Reading...Poker After Dark and High Stakes Poker both showed that you could create a highly successful TV show out of watching famous poker players sitting around the felt. Since this time, numerous other poker shows have spawned in an effort to claim the same success that the two aforementioned shows have enjoyed. Unfortunately, most of [...]
Continue Reading...Ever since the news surfaced about Michael Phelps being interested in playing in the WSOP someday, poker organizations have been hot on his trail trying to woo him into the poker world. But the only person who has really proved successful in their courtship of Phelps is Doyle Brunson who not only partied with Michael at [...]
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