In my last column, I discussed NBC's National Heads-Up Poker Championship, which featured 60 of the top poker players in the world and a few celebrities. With an NCAA basketball tournament "bracket" type of structure, 64 players started and 32 survived round one, which is where ...
My World Series of Poker Itch As I am writing this, the World Series of Poker is well under way, and the Brits have notched a respectable number of final-table finishes already. If we thought that the dramatic increase in entrants shook the poker ...continued
How many of us, I wonder, have suddenly found ourselves in situations in which we've become the jam in the sandwich? If this happens in a cash game, we can, of course, get up and leave. If we feel we're being squeezed out of a tournament, ...continued
Top European Achievements at the WSOP So Far It's two weeks into the World Series of Poker and there have been some absolutely wonderful performances by Europeans. Normally, the best performances get announced last, but not in this column. The ...continued
They Play Poker in Norway? Well, of course they do. What sort of daft question is that? OK, I'll rephrase it. Is it legal to play poker in Norway? No, it's not, not at all. So, how come there are so many of those Internet hotties playing out ...continued
The sun shines down brightly and the pavement crackles, and deep inside a convention center toward the back of a Las Vegas airline highway, a bunch of poker players compete for the title of champion of the world. And where that person will hail from ...continued
The Future's So Bright That I've Gotta Wear Shades! As I write this, it's World Series of Poker time once again. For the poker player, it marks the end of the playing year, and, more often than not, it is the month that makes or breaks the ...continued
Cecelia Nordenstam and Alexander Stevic The first time I met her was at the EPT Grand Final in Monte Carlo, a stunning beauty, playing an aggressive and disciplined game of poker, yet with a friendliness and a genuinely relaxed attitude that is rather ...continued
The online poker industry does not follow the normal rules of time. Having grown more in a few short years than most industries grow in a generation, the 24-hour clock on the virtual poker community continues to run at double-speed, which has a ...continued
Cash Result Clonmel native Dennis O'Mahoney had a brief, but memorable, stay in Las Vegas during this year's World Series of Poker. Having paid his $5,000 buy-in for a no-limit hold'em WSOP tournament, O'Mahoney was dismayed to ...continued
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