With UltimatePoker.com, the first legal U.S. online poker site, just a few weeks into its run (with mixed reactions to its software), Caesars Entertainment (who many would have projected to beat Stations Casinos, a much smaller operation, to the punch) has now announced it will be unfurling its own WSOP-branded, Nevada-licensed online site during this… Read More
Here she comes: the 2013 World Series of Poker (WSOP) in Las Vegas, Nevada – the Mac Daddy of all poker tournaments – is starting up soon. If you’re living vicariously and planning on watching some of the streaming coverage online, you can relax; but if you have a flight booked, a house rented with… Read More
After two years of moping, whining, screaming, yelling and crying, at least one sector of American players are now back online, legally; UltimatePoker.com, a Stations Casinos-owned Internet poker site, and the state of Nevada, have beaten New Jersey to the punch, and become the first-ever legal online United States poker room. Poker, at last, is… Read More
You know how it is; you’re at a party or gathering and people are talking about their hobbies, and you mention poker. “Oh, I’ve always wanted to learn how to play that! Will you teach me sometime?” is almost always the response. Oh joy, just what every poker player wants to do: sit down and… Read More
Seems like that’s pretty much a wrap: with former Full Tilt CEO Ray Bitar’s sentence to forfeit $40 million in cash and assets coming down this week, essentially stripping him of everything he ever acquired via his company’s illicit practices, it looks like the Black Friday saga has now come to an end. The question… Read More
It’s been one of those days. Or weeks. Maybe even months or years. No matter what you do, no matter how solidly you play, no matter how tilt-less you remain: you cannot shake your opponents’ one-outters hitting every time, or your own 14-outters missing like a blind man trying to catch a ball. You’ve reviewed… Read More
For some reason, people always seem to be surprised when professional poker players get caught behaving badly. Whether former WSOP Main Event champs Greg Raymer and Jerry Yang, (who respectively got their derrières caught in a sling with recent run-ins with the law involving hookers and the IRS), or former coke bon vivants like Mike Matusow,… Read More
We’ve all been there: the deck is hitting you in the face like an abusive lover, your chip stack has quadrupled since you first sat down at the table, and you’ve taken down every heads-up pot for the last two hours. You’re immortal!! Then suddenly, you’re all in, ready to double up yet again before… Read More
Many of us, on any given day, going about the seeming drudgery of a steady, (and sometimes tedious) job, have fantasized about shucking it all for the seemingly glamorous life of a professional poker player. Like a career in show business, all is not always as it appears on the surface, however, in the poker… Read More
Poker players, as a group, tend to pride themselves on not being true gamblers, pointing to the skills they have acquired, both in the school of hard knocks as well as by reading and studying the game, to give themselves a winning edge. Yet poke a little further, and you’ll find that many of these… Read More
