February 2011 - Bloggers
Who's Got the Power in Poker?
This week BLUFF Magazine announced its annual "Power 20" list which catalogues the 20 most influential people in poker. This marks the sixth year the magazine has produced such a list, which tends to include...
Poker Book Review: 'Don't Listen to Phil Hellmuth' by Dusty Schmidt and Paul Christopher Hoppe
Poor Phil Hellmuth. Despite winning 11 WSOP bracelets, earning more than $11 million in tournaments, and authoring several popular poker strategy titles, everybody's picking on him! The rise of poker forums over the last decade...
The Limits of Being Human in a No-Limit World
There's something about that select group of poker players who play for the highest stakes that tends to encourage the rest of us to think of them as somehow not of our species. I'm talking...
Poker Says Goodbye to a Friend, Jack Ury, Oldest-Ever WSOP Participant
Jack Ury, the oldest-ever participant at the World Series of Poker, passed away this week at the age of 97. Ury leaves behind a large family of children, grandchildren, great-grandchildren, and great-great-grandchildren, having been married...