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There are plenty of specialized poker books a poker player could read that will improve one specific part of their game. Whether it’s a strategy book like Chris “Fox” Wallace’s No Limits, Lee Nelson et al. Kill Phil series, or Rolf Slotboom’s Secrets of PLO, or if it’s a psychology book like Jared Tendler’s Inside [...]

There are plenty of specialized poker books a poker player could read that will improve one specific part of their game. Whether it’s a strategy book like Chris “Fox” Wallace’s No Limits, Lee Nelson et al. Kill Phil series, or Rolf Slotboom’s Secrets of PLO, or if it’s a psychology book like Jared Tendler’s Inside [...]

There are plenty of specialized poker books a poker player could read that will improve one specific part of their game. Whether it’s a strategy book like Chris “Fox” Wallace’s No Limits, Lee Nelson et al.’s Kill Phil series, or Rolf Slotboom’s Secrets of Professional PLO, or if it’s a psychology book like Jared Tendler’s [...]

For the first time since Ultimate Bet held the now defunct Aruba Poker Classic in 2009 there will be a major poker tournament heading to the island paradise. The Players Poker Championship (PPC) announced this past week that they will be hosting a $3,300 Main Event in Aruba in May 2012 as part of a [...]

One of the biggest fears when Bodog first announced it would be making all of its online poker tables “anonymous” was how the site would be able to catch colluders and prevent people from using poker bots – considering there is no way to track players over a large number of hands since they are [...]

This weekend the Heartland Poker Tour hosted its 100th Main Event, and fittingly the tournament was won by one of the top tournament players in poker, Will “The Thrill” Failla. Failla triumphed over the 328 player field to win nearly $120,000, and if it wasn’t for fellow poker pro Allen Kessler, Failla wouldn’t have even [...]

There have been plenty of sports-related endeavors that failed to make it past Season 1 (or that were seen as inevitable failures by that point in time) and the Epic Poker League surely falls into that category. The writing was on the wall for the EPL’s Chapter 11 filing by Event #2 in September, and [...]

In Part 1 of this series I detailed #’s 5-10 on my list of the best female tournament poker players; in Part 2 I will now look at the top four players on my list as well as three female players to watch in the future. #4 – Annette Obrestad Obrestad came into the live [...]

Nevada is the first state in the US to start the licensing process for online poker operators, and the rush by some two-dozen current online poker providers to secure a Nevada license gives the poker world a clear indication of how lucrative the US market will likely be. The latest company to apply for an [...]

When I first clicked on the link to the trailer for the new poker documentary All In: The Poker Movie that appeared in my Facebook inbox I thought to myself, “this movie has been in production way too long!” considering some of the players being interviewed and spouting their opinions about poker included some of [...]