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Just been alerted to a juicy sounding promotion on the Betfair Poker main site for any SNG players playing at $12 stakes and above.... Read more

James Butler Hickok was born on May 27, 1837 and was a well-known figure in the American Old West. Better known as Wild Bill Hickok, he had a reputation for being a notorious gunfighter and gambler, both of which would... Read more

Introducing our very own poker Pro John Tabatabai in a series of videos made shortly before the Welshman landed the valuable Heads-Up Tournament at the Aussie Millions early this year.... Read more

Betfair Poker Pro Annette Obrestad has decided to give live updates from the EPT Grand Final Monte Carlo from her micro-blogging account at Twitter. Follow all her updates here live only at Betfair Poker.... Read more

"We're giving away free iPod Touches," I was told. "To all new signs up to Betfair Poker who reach 10,000 Betfair points. Go promote!"... Read more

One of the great things about Betfair Poker is the ability to learn the nuances of poker without having to risk a single penny of your own money.... Read more

Apart from getting addicted to Twitter like Annette, I'm starting to love these mini-movies made using text to sound. Here's the latest poker-related one I found. Warning some strong language as this British player launches a tirade against a stoned... Read more

It's been another popular and busy month on the Betfair Poker Blogs with excellent contributions from our growing band of writers.... Read more

Danish poker professional Peter "Zupp" Jepsen has signed an exclusive sponsorship deal with Betfair Poker.... Read more

Betfair blogger Matt Broughton brings you a tribute to Dave 'Devilfish' Ulliot in this excellent Youtube video alluding to the pro poker player's hair...or lack of it! Funny stuff.... Read more

Tags: matt broughton, mid-life crisis, wig, youtube vid

In little over 100 days, the longest-running, most prestigious poker festival on Earth returns to Las Vegas for its 40th year, where for 50 days, the world's best players and thousands of hopefuls will chase their dream of winning a... Read more

When the son of actress Goldie Hawn, Oliver Hudson, paid $10,000 to play in the 2005 World Series of Poker Main Event, he will never have thought he would last just a single hand in the tournament but that is... Read more

When two of the most aggressive players in the world collide with strong hands, there are bound to be fireworks and fireworks there were when Patrik Antonius locked horns with Phil Ivey in the 'Million Dollar Cash Game.'... Read more

I don't often write about poker on here. I'm not very good at poker and marginally worse at writing.... Read more

Tags: annette obrestad, improving at poker, marcus bateman, poker reading, puds progress

Day 4 would see the end of three great deep runs by Team Betfair players, all falling agonisingly close to a final table finish, but doing themselves proud by reaching the latter stages of the Aussie Millions Main Event 2009.... Read more

One of the most feared and respected players in the high-stakes online cash games is Tom 'Durrrr' Dwan.... Read more

Players entered Day 3 in the Aussie Millions knowing they were only 20 spots from the money and locking up $15,000 for their troubles.... Read more

All three Betfair players - pros Annette Obrestad and Sorel Mizzi as well as online qualifier Annica Ivert have made it to Day 4 of the Aussie Millions in Melbourne.... Read more

Betfair Pro John Tabatabai landed the Australian Heads Up Championships at the Aussie Millions on Thursday evening beating Alec Torelli 2-0 in the final winning AU$100,000.... Read more

Tristan Heffernan reports on an amazing Day 2 at the Aussie Millions for Team Betfair. Day 2 was Girls Day at the Aussie Millions - spearheaded by two incredible performances by the two ladies playing under the Betfair banner. Annette... Read more

Tags: annette obrestad, annette_15, Annica Ivert, aussie millions

Team Betfair enjoyed a spectacular Day 2 at the Aussie Millions in Melbourne with qualifier Annica Ivert leading the field with Annette Obrestad sitting in second place.... Read more

Our man in Melbourne Tristan Heffernan reports from the final opening day of the Aussie Millions Main Event. The final of the three Day 1s saw only one qualifier from Betfair take part in what was easily the biggest field... Read more

Tags: Day 1 Flight C, shane warne, tom durrrr dwan

Tristan Heffernan reports on Day 1b from the Aussie Millions in Melbourne with news of the Betfair Pros and qualifiers. Things really started to heat up for the Betfair Poker team in Day 1a, with 6 entrants taking to the... Read more

Tags: Aussie Millions Day 1 Flight B, Betfair qualifers Australia

Ask any poker player to describe a sick hand they are aware of and I bet at least one of them will mention the Phil Ivey vs Paul 'Action' Jackson when they were heads-up at the Monte Carlo Millions.... Read more

Our man in Melbourne Tristan Heffernan reports from the opening day of the Aussie Millions Main Event. Day 1a of the 2009 Aussie Millions saw a relatively low representation from Betfair Poker players, with most players opting to wait until... Read more

Betfair Pro Sorel Mizzi has an excellent chance of landing his second major live tournament in as many months after reaching the final table of the $1,000 no-limit rebuy event at the Aussie Millions.... Read more

Tags: aussie millions, imper1um, rebuy tournament, sorel mizzi

Shock, horror, Gus Hansen involved in a sick poker hand, this time at the Million Dollar Cash Game.... Read more

Imagine sitting there and flopping a set, in a raised pot, against one of the world's most aggressive players. That is exactly what happened to Canadian superstar, Daniel Negreanu in an episode of High Stakes Poker when he re-raised Gus... Read more

A sick hand occurred when Ryan Daut and Isaac Haxton clashed heads-up at the final table of the 2007 PokerStars Caribbean Adventure. After finding himself 3:1 down in chips at one point, Daut fought valiantly to turn things around and... Read more

Everyone likes getting comments on their poker blog, right? - otherwise people would just turn off their comments option. Right? So here are are three quick tips for getting more comments.... Read more

Poker players keep blogs for a variety of reasons. For many, writing about how they have played particular hands or coped in certain situation helps to improve their game (through self-evaluation), others enjoy the buzz of getting feedback and comments... Read more

Tags: advice for poker bloggers, blog headlines, blogspot, improving stats

Heads-up in Event#2 of the 2008 World Series of Poker, young British pro, James Akenhead had been slowly eroding away Grant Hinkle's chip-lead and was almost level when a cruel hand was played out.... Read more

Early in the $10,000 buy-in 2005 World Series of Poker Main Event, a hand cropped up where a one-outer was hit on the river to decimate the stack of top pro Jennifer Harman.... Read more

Whilst poker is an exciting and exhilarating game, it can also be an extremely frustrating and annoying hobby. Sometimes, the 'Poker Gods' (amen) think it would be fun to make two huge hands clash in order for a player to... Read more

Betfair pro Sorel Mizzi has done what he has been threatening to do since turning professional last year - won a major live poker tournament.... Read more

Tags: bellagio, live win for Betfair pro, sorel mizzi

This week marks the tenth anniversary of the death of Stu Ungar - who was arguably the greatest poker player who ever lived (even if not the best poker player, he was certainly the greatest gin rummy player ever).... Read more

Tags: chip reese, greatest poker player, stu ungar, stuey ungar

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 sng, blind tournament, youtube annette 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