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Following the epic ratings the 2003 World Series of Poker produced, a lot of people tried to cash in on the poker “Boom”, and a slew of poker related shows started appearing around the television dial. In the beginning these poker telecasts focused on major tournaments -basically imitating the WSOP telecasts– and eventually moved into [...]

It’s hard to believe that this will be the 6th Heads-Up Poker Championship, and the once novel idea has turned into one of the most prestigious titles in all of poker. The invite-only format blends together a great mix of Poker Pros, up-and-comers, celebrities, and a few online qualifiers gives fans to root on their [...]

After winning in the neighborhood of $6 million at the Full Tilt Poker tables in November only lose all of it plus a few million of his own money in December, the mysterious Swedish poker player known only as Isildur1 has found his way back to the nosebleed tables on Full Tilt: And is up [...]

The poker player everyone loves to hate, Phil Hellmuth, gave his detractors more ammunition after the first episode of Season 6 of GSN’s High Stakes Poker show. Hellmuth, a tournament specialist, has struggled in his appearances on the show, which is played as a cash game, and season 6 kicked off for Phil the way [...]

Jeff Madsen, perhaps best known for his back-to-back World Series of Poker wins in 2006, was able to capture the Borgata Winter Poker Open title after besting a pretty stacked final table that included Tom “KINGOFCARDS” Marchese and Matt Matros. The win was worth over $600k and was Jeff’s biggest win since 2006, when he [...]

For the second straight year it was a homegrown Australian who captured the coveted title of Aussie Millions Champion when Sydney native Tyron Krost outlasted a tough final table that included Sorel Mizzi and Annette Obrestad. In 2009 it was Australian Stewart Scott who took home the title.
This year’s tournament down under saw a dramatic [...]

Full Tilt Poker has long been one of the main drivers of ingenuity and innovation in the world of Online Poker, but what they have just come up with could possibly be their greatest triumph ever. Created with the idea that action junkies should never have to wait in mind, Rush Poker is the newest [...]

With eight tournament stops remaining, and 11 in the books, the 2009/2010 World Poker Tour is quickly approaching the WPT World Championship at Bellagio that will take place in mid-late April 2010 -oddly, the Championship event is not the final stop of the season, with the Grand Prix de Paris taking place a couple weeks [...]

In part 1 of this series I went over the major arguments currently being invoked by the proponents of Online Poker, and briefly touched upon the talking points of the people who are adamantly against Online Poker being legalized in the US. In this article I will detail three specific concessions Online Poker sites could [...]

One of the many problems facing proponents of an Online Poker industry that is both legalized and regulated is that they are approaching the issue from a poker professional’s point of view. And if poker teaches you anything it’s that you must strive to think like your opponent in order to understand their mind-set and [...]