Like somebody still wearing a Member’s Only jacket, it’s a rare to see somebody’s name that isn’t Phil Ivey reaching incredible heights in the pokersphere. This year, two people were a product of World Series of Poker (WSOP) greatness: Michael Mizrachi and Frank Kassela. After an early start to 2010 that saw IRS woes for [...]

Every wanted to pretend you’re better at poker by impressing people with your amazing chip trick skills? Antonio “The Magician” Esfandiari shows you how to perform the chip twirl, the Charleston of stack dances.

I think Daniel Negreanu read my last article about him. During a recent interview for British magazine Poker Player, Negreanu apparently intended on take the training wheels off his sparkling clean spokesperson image to ride his big boy Huffy. When asked how he felt about men playing in the all-women event this year at the [...]

A name synomous with the World Poker Tour (WPT) earned the recognition it deserved on Saturday. Kathy Liebert played in her 100th WPT tourney over the weekend at the 2010 Legends of Poker event at the Bicycle Casino in L.A. Liebert becomes the second player to join the 100 tourney milestone, an achievement christened by [...]

I could just type out the name “Phil Ivey”, leave the rest of this post blank, and spare you the dead horse I’m about to beat going on about just how incredible a player he is. For starters, he became the all-time leading tournament money player last year, edging out Daniel Negreanu after a storybook [...]

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The 41st Annual World Series of Poker Main Event coverage kicks off tonight at 8 p.m. and 9 p.m. EST on ESPN. Lon McEachern and Norman Chad, poker’s Statler and Waldorf, call the play-by-play as cameras take us through the second largest field in Main Event history: a staggering 7,319 players vying for a first prize [...]

When poker and other casino games were recently legalized in Pennsylvania, Donald Trump and all of the other mint julep-drinking yuppies who have a stake in the Atlantic City casinos took a collective gulp.  Now people from Philadelphia don’t have to drive all the way to Atlantic City just to play table games and live [...]

The eccentric and exciting Phil “The Unabomber” Laak was hospitalized on Thursday after an ATV (all-terrain vehicle) accident brought a bitter end to a week-long vacation with friends in Orgeon. His initial tweets at the beginning of his fantastic voyage into the testosterone-laden wilderness painted an innocent picture: “In Victoria, 23 min flt to Vancouver [...]

Three bracelets–that’s how many the following players won in a single year at the World Series of Poker (WSOP). Zero–that’s how many you have won in your lifetime. One in a year is a dream for most people shelling out the thousands of dollars for an entry fee. Two in a year is a dream [...]