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Even if he were to be the first player eliminated from every tournament he entered in 2012, 2010 WSOP Champion Jonathan Duhamel would still consider himself lucky after the brutal home invasion that left the Canadian poker pro battered, bruised, and without his coveted WSOP bracelet. Fortunately for Duhamel, the assailants are in custody, and [...]

According to Wicked Chops Poker, the Epic Poker League is in talks with Pinnacle Entertainment to sell the fledgling poker tour and all of its assets to Pinnacle. The article is located behind the paywall at WickedChopsPoker.com in the ‘Insiders” portion of the website, but the first few paragraphs are available for consumption by the [...]

One of my predictions for 2012 was that attendance at major tournaments would be down across the board, and the first major tournament of 2012 is making me look like quite the seer considering the attendance for the 2012 PokerStars Caribbean Adventure (PCA) was down some 30% over last year.
What may even be more frightening [...]

A while back a wrote a fairly scathing article regarding an article where Beth Shak hyped herself as a “Professional Poker Player” implying that her Amelda Marcos-esque shoe collection was the fruits of her labors at the poker tables. Well it seems that Shak is once again masquerading as a poker pro (with a side [...]

For anyone expecting online poker legislation to pass in a few states, or maybe even at the federal level, and suddenly online poker will be back to the normal in the US this column is a must-read. I’m here to tell you that online poker in the US is going to be a far more [...]

Since the US Government started enforcing UIGEA legislation in 2010 (the law was originally passed in 2006) the online poker world has been on a rollercoaster ride, with online poker players dealing with setbacks, possibilities, and of course Black Friday.
The latest possibility comes in the form of the recent reversal of policy by the Department [...]

In the world of live tournament poker there are plenty of trophies and championships that can be won each year, but when it comes to continued excellence over a period of time there are only three awards players are interested in: The World Series of Poker Player of the Year Award, the Card Player Magazine [...]

After decades of stagnant thinking (think airplane technology), when it comes to progressive strategy and theory the world of poker has moved extremely fast in the past 5-10 years (think computers and cell phone technology). Because of this most of the training tools for poker players have become cheaper and at the same time offering [...]

Every year in the poker world we witness a few breakout performances, a few comebacks by players that have fallen off the poker radar in recent years and of course a few players continuing their successful streaks. In this 4-part column I’ll take a look at the players who were the top performers in the [...]

Every year in the poker world we witness a few breakout performances, a few comebacks by players that have fallen off the poker radar in recent years and of course a few players continuing their successful streaks. In this 4-part column I’ll take a look at the players who were the top performers in the [...]