Online Poker

Viktor “Isildur1″ Blom discusses SCOOP Wins and First WSOP

One of the biggest stories in the 2012 SCOOP has been the early domination of Viktor “Isildur1″ Blom, who won Event #2 ($215 NLHE) and Event #3 ($530 6-max NLHE). In addition to this, he’s also finished in the top 100 of three other 2012 SCOOP tournaments. What’s truly noteworthy about all of this is [...]

Poker Babe Tatjana Pasalic re-signed by Bodog

The past year has really seen Bodog Poker push their “Recreational Player Model,” which involves doing everything possible to recruit and protect recreational grinders from the pros. And signing Tatjana Pasalic has gone a long way towards solidifying the recruiting efforts since her beauty and camera-friendly personality interest new players. Bodog Poker must share the [...]

The Real Cost of Freerolls

One thing that’s quite common throughout the online poker world is freeroll hunters. These are the players who rarely spend any of their own money on tournament buy-ins and get especially excited about exclusive freerolls. The logic behind freeroll hunting is that you can win cash and eventually play real money poker games later. Get [...]

Barry Greenstein thinks Obama secretly supports US Online Poker

For quite some time, people were waiting on US President Barrack Obama to make a statement on same sex marriage. And this past week, Obama came out and said that he’s in support of gay marriage, which has caused quite a controversy throughout America. High stakes poker pro Barry Greenstein took this opportunity to imply [...]

Fold Equity in Turbos

Obviously nobody wants to be shortstacked in a poker tournament. After all, it’s the bigger stacks who aren’t constantly fearing for their tourney life, and they can bully other players around more easily. But if you play enough poker tournaments, you’re going to be in a lot of short stack situations – especially in turbos. [...]

Merge Gaming to lose Lock Poker

Since Black Friday, Merge Gaming has gained a significant amount of player traffic. In fact, they’re now the eighth largest online poker entity in the world according to PokerScout. However, this traffic looks to drop quite a bit when you consider that one of their largest skins – Lock Poker – has now announced that [...]

TwoPlusTwo back Online on May 12th?

One situation that we’ve been closely following over the past few days involves a devastating cyber attack that the TwoPlusTwo forums suffered on April 26th, 2012. We already wrote extensively about the TwoPlusTwo hacked story, but the basic jest of it is that some creep got into the poker site’s database, then was able to [...]

Jennifer Tilly talks Poker, Push-up Bras with NY Magazine

Since winning the 2005 WSOP Ladies Hold’em event along with $158,335, Jennifer Tilly has remained one of the most popular figures in the poker industry. She’s appeared on several poker TV shows, and has earned $699,793 in live poker tournaments. Lately though, the poker babe has vowed to get back into acting more while cutting [...]

TwoPlusTwo Devastated after Hacking, Site Down 4-6 Days

The other night, the world’s most popular poker forum, TwoPlusTwo.com, was the victim of a devastating cyber attack after an anonymous hacker broke into the site’s database. The hacker was able to access email addresses and encrypted passwords, which prompted TwoPlusTwo to shut their site down before any more information was compromised. Part of a [...]

Wall Street Journal reports on PokerStars buying Full Tilt Poker

What were mere rumors yesterday have become fact today in regards to PokerStars plans to purchase Full Tilt Poker. This is even truer when you consider the fact that the Wall Street Journal has jumped into the fray by reporting on this monumental prospective deal. Just hours after Groupe Bernard Tapie’s attempts to buy Full [...]

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