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Most poker players will declare that there is more to the game (or indeed sport depending on your viewpoint) than just luck as many would have you believe, but there appears to be a growing change in official eyes, writes... Read more

Tags: Ivan Demidov, Peter Borm, poker chance, poker skill, Stanislav Alekhin, Van der Genugten

London has been a happy hunting ground of late for John Juanda who became the first American to land a gold bracelet at Betfair's World Series of Poker Europe with his victory in the Main Event earlier this month, writes... Read more

Tags: ept, high rollers event, jason mercier, john juanda, wsope, wsope me

Annette Obrestad will return from Las Vegas $50,000 richer and that's despite being too young to play poker in any of the world famous casinos on Las Vegas's seedy strip.... Read more

Tags: annette obrestad, annette_15, FTP, Las Vegas, MTT, Sunday Mulligans, WSOP

Don't want to believe the following player notes all came from the same poker degenerate but that's what Bill Rini is saying on his blog. Some classic lines though........ Read more

Tags: bill rini, player notes, prone to massive tilt

Although Phil Hellmuth made his entrance on Day 1D in a US Army Jeep flanked by a bevy of beautiful girls, the poker brat was upstaged by Phil 'Unabomber' Laak who played the whole day incognito dressed up as an... Read more

Tags: phil hellmuth, phil laak, unabomber

Most people believed Annette Obrestad was a male when she first started playing online poker the WSOPE champion has revealed in a recent interview.... Read more

Tags: annette Obrestad, annette_15, blind tourney, poker road interview

A forum poster recently asked how Annette could have won a 180-player online tournament without looking at her cards.... Read more

Tags: Annette hand histories, annette obrestad hand histories, blind tournament, youtube anette 15

Everyone has a right to enjoy themselves when playing online poker but some people can take things a little too far as seen in the following video.... Read more

Tags: congressmans son, Jim Moran jnr, overexcited playing poker, poker video, pokerstars, youtube

Having consulted a range of experts, poker pros and industry know-alls, we determined that the key criteria are, in no particular order: MTT form - The biggest titles, cashes and fame all come with winning the biggest tournaments in the... Read more

Tags: FL, Grind, MTT, NL, Omaha, Sit & Gos, Stax

Nobody likes a bad loser but surly interviewers aren't popular either. More funny stuff from the Siktilt team at the Monte Carlo EPT.... Read more

Tags: daniel negreanu, poker video, siktilt, swimming pool

Anyone reading Annette's latest blog post may well have been duped into believing she had bought a 'lovely' pink house with her winnngs from the WSOPE last September. Indeed, the entry certainly had some posters over at 2+2 very busy.... Read more

Tags: annette_15, pink house, sorel mizzi

The biggest gambling film of the decade opens on April 11 and who better to review the story of how six MIT students became card counters and took the casino word for millions than best-selling author and self-confessed card cheat... Read more

Tags: 21 film, blackjack, MIT card counters, Richard Marcus

Old men clog up the Irish Poker Open, one man's attempt to qualify for the WSOPE, Short-stacked Shamus plays live and a look at some online poker tools. It's all there as we take a look around the world of... Read more

Tags: adam junglen, irish open poker, mac poker, poker songs, poker tools, wsope

For the first time ever, we're lucky enough to welcome the strategic musings of brand new Betfair Sponsored Pro, Sorel "Imper1um" Mizzi - a veritable colossus in the world of online poker! See when it is OK to fold AA.... Read more

If you don't know how to play a re-buy tournament on Betfair then you may want to watch out for the Feed The Beast promotion which culminates in a huge poker fest on Easter Sunday. You may, however, want to... Read more

A look at Annette's recent online win, how NOT to turn down a player's sponsorship attempts and asks "Are you a donkey?"... Read more

There's more to life than the Wsop Europe, Wsope and Annette_15. See what's being said online about Phil Hellmuth's new TV show and read Sorel Mizzi's first blog.... Read more

There's more to life than mtts, sit n gos and cash games. There's a whole world of poker to be discovered out there in the ether.... Read more

Tags: annette_15, poker blogs