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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 [...]

Historically the United States Federal Government moves very slowly (it was designed this way) and this has never been more evident than in recent years. For those people whose interests lay not only in poker but also in politics, the slow progress of online poker at the Federal level is not surprising. Clogging up the [...]

With a third ‘mini-scandal’ hitting the Epic Poker League’s Standards and Conduct Committee (this time the controversy is centering on a member of the committee itself) I felt it was the right time to revisit the issue of policing the poker world’s conduct.
Thus far the Epic Poker League has seen as many issues brought before [...]

In this article you’ll read the entire years highlights, all in less than 500 words! So, for the sake of brevity, let’s get right to it.
2011 was quite a year in the poker world. From the very outset of the year we saw a new emphasis on Super-High-Roller tournaments, with $100k events taking place at [...]

The Epic Poker League hosted their third tournament during their inaugural season this past weekend, and while attendance in the Pro/Am increased dramatically, the EPL Main Event saw only a minimal increase in attendance over Event #2, both falling well below the high-water mark set during the inaugural EPL Main Event.
A total of 100 players [...]

Poker players are generally a logical, astute, and informed bunch, but when it comes to arguing in favor of expanding current Brick & Mortar poker outlets or regulating online poker the overwhelming majority of the poker community simply doesn’t get it. What I mean by “doesn’t get it” is, the poker community has the fixed [...]

The man responsible for supplying the poker world with updates from the nosebleed cash games that take place in Macau now has another claim to fame, as Tom Hall decided to exact some revenge for “Getting Chino’d” by bringing the serial borrower into the boxing ring for a 1-round slugfest -that ended up being entirely [...]

Questions are still being asked by current members of BlueFire Poker and the poker world at large, even after the site released their official statement on the departure of Phil Galfond. Despite promising to explain the situation, the statement made by BlueFire Poker co-founder Billy Murphy was vague in details regarding Galfond’s departure, but explicit [...]

Black Friday has left more than the US online poker industry thrashing around in its wake, with a number of televised poker show left decimated by the government crackdown on online poker back in April.  Another victim (albeit on a lesser scale) has been US poker tours: The PokerStars North American Poker Tour folded, and [...]