The Big Game poker episodes

  PokerStars has introduced an interesting format for poker television.  Basically it is a cash game that pits 5 pros against what they call a "loose cannon".  The Loose Cannon get's staked for $100,000 and anything that player wins over $100,000 he/she gets to keep. the big game

Michael Mizrachi wins Players Championship at WSOP

  In poker as in most things people love winners until they lose, then obviously they become degenerates.  Michael Mizrachi knows this roller coaster better than most after rising in the poker world and dominating the World Poker Tour "The Grinder" basically fell off the poker Michael Mizrachi Players Championship

The WSOP is no longer a Series

  When I first started playing poker, even before I knew I wanted to do it for a living (you could strongly argue that I do not now and you would not be far off) I dreamt to play in the WSOP, the main event.  I tried to get into some preliminary events back in the day through satellites no longer a series

Jason Calacanis takes on the poker world

  Jason Calacanis is a bombastic, opinionated and self serving player in the technology blogging community.  He is most known for starting fights with just about everyone as a way to garner attention for himself and his projects.  My wife describes me similar to the way I would Jason Calacanis Poker

My retirement from poker announcement (5 years later)

  (Circa March 2005) Recently I had the run of my life.  While most people know me for all of the Aruba wins (not to mention all of the pieces I had for the ones I did not win) I had 250k cash game runs multiple times in 2004.  I played most of the WPT events in 2004 and I am just retiring from poker

Daniel Negreanu will get crushed in the PokerStars 100-200 NLHE

Recently Daniel Negreanu started playing regularly in the 100-200 game on PokerStars.  Most people think he is a big underdog.  I made this video blog to highlight HOW big of an underdog and why fundamentally he has a long way to go before he will be a favorite in that particular Fundamental Mistakes Kidpoker

Stox quits stoxpoker, now what?

I know that 2+2 is viewed as "the man" in the poker world.  Mostly in the context of "the man" is trying to keep me down.  You can go over a million ways that the site is annoying and even repressive but nine out of ten times they get it right.  It certainly did stoxtrader quits stoxpoker

Stoxtrader Nick Grudzien cheating scandal updates

Update: We have developed a script (it is at the bottom of this post) that allows uses to analyze Holdem Manager Data with set criteria.  We should be able to modify it as needed. Update: Stoxpoker released this statement on 2+2 "In the last few days various allegations have been made stoxtrader cheating accusations

Where's your POKER head at?

Obviously you can not win every day but it certainly seems like you should.  After all you put in a ton of work and you study your game but ultimately you are still only going to win a small percentage over 50% no matter what.  So how do you keep your head straight?  Four things emotional poker

Annie Duke wins the 2010 NBC Heads Up Championship

  There are a couple of things that I think need to be said first given that the title pretty much gives away the purpose of this article.  Annie Duke is a great poker player if you define great as being much better than the average poker player.  Many people have issues with her annie duke heads up