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The Spring Championship of Online Poker is just around the corner and PokerStars is giving everyone a chance win huge cash prizes and even free entries into SCOOP events. What’s the catch? This is a blog contest so it’s time to put on your creative thinking cap.... Read more
Change from ‘Dealt’ to ‘Weighted Contributed’ VPP earnings at ring games will be calculated using the ‘weighted contributed’ method, changing from the ‘dealt’ method. The weighted contributed method awards VPPs to each player based on how much they contribute to the pot. You can read more about... Read more
Do you have the need for speed… and big tournaments? Well then, PokerStars has got the series for you! Coming this January 19-29th, PokerStars will be hosting the Turbo Championship Of Online Poker with $10,000,000 in guaranteed prizes over 50 events. With buy-ins ranging from just $5.50... Read more
Name: Badih “Bob” Bounahra Age: 49 Hometown: Originally Lebanon, now Belize City, Belize Online Alias: LEB_BEL Current Place: 6th Current Chip Count: 19,700,000 Vegas Odds-To-Win: 7-1 Largest Online Win: $19,500 PokerStars $250k Guarantee Largest Live Win Prior To WSOP: $30,054 $1k Latin American Poker Tour Bob Bounahra,... Read more
Name: Pius Heinz Age: 22 Hometown: Cologne, Germany Online Alias: MastaP69 Current Place: 7th Current Chip Count: 16,4250,000 Vegas Odds-To-Win: 10-1 Largest Online Win: $61,072.000 Largest Live Win Prior To WSOP: $83,286 (7th $1,500 WSOP NLHE 2011) Pius came into his first World Series with an... Read more
Name: Anton Makiievskyi Age: 21 Hometown: Dnipropetrovsk, Ukraine, now resides in Kiev Online Alias: ? Current Place: 8th Current Chip Count: 13,825,000 Vegas Odds-To-Win: 11-1 Largest Online Win: ? Largest Live Win Prior To WSOP: $18,787 Yalta Summer Poker Festival Anton is not only the first Ukrainian player... Read more
Looming before the start of 42nd Annual World Series of Poker, the aftermath effects of Black Friday were still being felt. Many wondered if there would be a noticeable change in attendance with millions of dollars locked up on several online sites. American players on PokerStars would... Read more
Hey poker fans! I’m sitting at the airport bar waiting for my flight to Vegas and the excitement is brewing as we’re less then 24 hours away from the start of the WSOP main event. No need to be envious, though, as we’re about to bring you... Read more
The continuation bet is one of the more common plays in poker and is a prime example of how aggressive play can be used effectively. However, it’s not always as simple as just betting all your flops and knowing the proper time to use is will make... Read more
Patience: Not Just In The Game Patience is a word that gets tossed out a lot when talking about poker strategy – and for good reason! It’s certainly one of the most important traits to have a hold of when determining your skill level. However, it’s amazing... Read more
With just one day to go before the official start to the 2011 World Series of Poker, many poker fans are scouring the web in search of last-minute tips to fill their rosters. This year’s draft is particularly tricky as many veteran players native to the U.S.... Read more
The popularity of poker has had exponential growth in the last few decades and with it has come more televised coverage. Most of the coverage in the beginning was massively edited to condense multiple days of play into 20 minute segments and supplied little information to the... Read more
For the past week and a half, I’ve been playing a healthy dose of SCOOP events – eleven in total so far, with a few more remaining to go. I haven’t had all that much luck and only have two cashes under my belt but with field... Read more
This week is going to be a great test to my endurance as I’m planning on tackling several low limit SCOOP events on PokerStars so as the first part of my journal, I wanted to address some diet tips while preparing to play long events. With fields... Read more
Here’s a handy two-part chart that you can use to quickly assess the odds that you have to make your hand based on the outs you have remaining. The first column (orange) represents the number of outs you have with the fourth column (purple) giving examples as... Read more