Live Poker Archive

It seems every year the World Series of Poker in Las Vegas is attracting more and more payers to the felt. The majority aren’t considered ‘pros‘, but they are at least serious enough to pay the 4+ figure buy-ins for these events. Many of them are actually celebrity poker players, but few would designate...

A recent announcement by PokerStars that the famous online poker brand would be reformatting its live tournaments, effectively dissolving the European Poker Tour, was bound to have consequences. The first casualty has been identified as the Aussie Millions, which just declared independence from the PokerStars-sponsored Asia Pacific Poker Tour (APPT). The Crown Australian Poker...

For years, professional poker players have become accustomed to traveling the globe to participate in the world’s largest live tournaments, like the European Poker Tour (EPT). PokerStars is hoping that same level of dedication will remain intact – if not expand – as the online poker operator prepares to rebrand its live events scheduled...

There’s no better feeling than to make the bubble of the World Series of Poker Main Event Championship… unless you’ve made it into the final 27 – the final three tables – which is where we are now with the 2016 WSOP No Limit Holdem Championship. I’m proud to have just spoken with one...

When any major, worldwide competition takes place in a particular region of the world, it tends to inspire local participants to deliver a peak performance. When Russia hosted the 2014 Winter Olympics, they scored, they scored 33 medals (13 gold), more than doubling their 15-medal (3 gold) performance in 2010. When the UK hosted...

Maintaining stamina during a long, multi-day poker tournament takes a little something extra; a strong will, emotional stability and good humor are key. Unfortunately, one poker player’s humorous antics at the Peoples Poker Tour Main Event in Malta last month went a little too far, resulting in his ejection from the final table. Granted,...