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...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 [...]
Continue Reading...With the November Nine settled and people waiting for the final table to resume, the prop bets are already being put on the table by numerous betting websites. The most popular prop bet will definitely be who wins the whole thing and this wager has already been listed by Bodog, Betfair, and Ladbrokes. Bodog has chipleader [...]
Continue Reading...The 2009 World Series of Poker was a great one for my friend since he won event #13, earned over $500,000 for the win, and got his first gold bracelet. However, the aftermath was not so great for him as he got a big scare after returning to Ohio.
While my friend was checking his email, [...]
Full Tilt Poker has long held the reputation as the room which tries to sign every pro poker player available probably due to the fact that so many pro players have a large ownership stake in the company. PokerStars, meanwhile, took a different approach which included giving away numerous WSOP Main Event seats and touting [...]
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