Beginner’s Guide to Basic Bankroll Management

Being a good poker player does not mean that you only need poker skills to make it to the top.  In fact, you will need more than just poker skills to become famous and become just as rich as the popular poker pros.

What you need to have is something very basic, but it will be the foundation of your poker fame and money, and this is bankroll management.

Choosing the Buy-In Fee

If you want to earn money in poker, you have to have discipline.  You should know how to make use of your bankroll successfully, without it disappearing into thin air. [Read][more...]

Vladimir Beyne Geshkenbein Talks about the London PKR Heads-Up Grand Slam

Among the many poker pros that participated in London's PKR Heads-Up Grand Slam, it was Vladimir «Beyne» Geshkenbein who walked away with the grand prize that amounted to $120,000.  But before he bagged the title and the grand prize of the said event, he also won the APPT Macau High Roller Event, which took place last September.

In an interview, Geshkenbein talks about the tournament as well as some tips on how to play poker and win the game. [Read][more...]

The Poker-Playing Priest

Meet Father Andrew Trapp, the poker player priest from South Carolina.

Not only is he a good poker player, but he has also won $100,000 on the PokerStars Million Dollar Challenge, which is the newest reality show on Fox that is based around poker.  Aside from this, he has also earned a seat into the championship that will be held on December, giving himself the chance to win the $1,000,000 prize.

Getting Into the Show

An avid soccer and paintball player, Father Trapp also enjoys the game of poker.  He has been playing Texas Hold'Em poker for years now, but only for fun, so when he heard about the show last summer, he decided to play at the qualifier online tournaments in PokerStars. [Read][more...]

A Look at WSOP’s November Nine Phil Ivey

A living legend — that is what the poker world is calling Phil Ivey, and it is without a doubt that he is, indeed, a living legend.

Next month, Ivey is going back to the felt table and battle it out with some of the best poker players in the world as he plays at the final table of the 2009 World Series of Poker Main Event.

Poker Career

Ivey won his first WSOP bracelet at a $2,500 WSOP Pot-Limit Omaha when he was only 23 years old, and ever since then, he set a standard that was too high that only a few could ever match.  In 2002, he earned three WSOP bracelets.  He received another one in 2005 and two more in 2009. [Read][more...]

Barry Shulman on Winning the 2009 WSOPE Championship

Barry Shulman, CEO of CardPlayer, won the 2009 WSOPE Championship after a heads-up play with Daniel Negreanu.

These two big names in the poker world each took their turn getting rid of one opponent after another until they were left as the last two players competing for the major prize.  The game lasted about five hours, with Negreanu having a 2:1 chip lead against Shulman, but in the end, Shulman pulled ahead of Negreanu in what can be called as a very dramatic final two hands.

Shulman Talks about WSOPE [Read][more...]

Debut of The Poker Star

September marks the start of PokerStars new reality show, The Poker Star.  Quite a creative name, right?

Anyway, creative or not-so-creative name for PokerStars' new reality show, it cannot be denied that The Poker Star received a good verdict from its viewers, both the poker fans and those who knew next to nothing about the game.  The market might be so saturated with reality shows, but this new series has a certain appeal to it.

The Contestants

The show has seen about 18,000 contestants who wanted to be a part of the reality program, and Joe Hachem, the host, trimmed down the number to 11 contestants, four of which are women.  [Read][more...]

A Grand Entrance for the Poker World’s Poker Brat

We all know that Phil Hellmuth is a great player, but he never fails to make us remember that he is, indeed, the poker brat of the poker world.

This year's World Series of Poker Europe Main Event was no different.  He arrived in his usual fashion — late.  And he arrived with his own regiment — soldiers and dancing maidens fit only for an emperor.

The Emperor of Poker

Phil Hellmuth being Phil Hellmuth created yet another dramatic entrance to the Main Event of WSOPE.  Not only did he arrive «fashionably» late, but he also arrived in full Roman gear. [Read][more...]

2009 World Series of Poker Europe Won by a Brit

The WSOPE began last September 18 at the Empire Casino, London and, in fact, saw its biggest number of participants in its three-year history, having had 608 entrants.  The Main Event, which was to be a £1,000 Buy-In No-Limit Texas Hold'Em, started last Monday, September 21, for a two-day event.

Aside from seeing the biggest number of participants, this year also marks the first year that a Brit won a World Series of Poker Europe title championship, and he is JP Kelly. [Read][more...]

A Look at PokerStars’ Pro Poker Player Peter Eastgate

This year seems like a pretty busy year for PokerStars' Peter Eastgate. He has been seen in many live poker tournaments and, in fact, has done quite a bit of traveling to play poker at these major poker tournaments.  He even went to play at the EPT Barcelona that has just recently finished where, sadly, he did not do as well as he and his fans had hoped.

PokerStars' Very Own Peter Eastgate

Peter Eastgate is a 22-year-old poker player and is considered to be the youngest player who has ever won the championship title of the World Series of Poker Main Event where he played against big names in the poker world like Ivan Demidov. [Read][more...]

Victoria Coren Talks about Her Life

From playing poker with her brother and his friends to playing poker with the bigwigs, Victoria Coren is out to prove that winning poker is not in the gender, but it is in the skills.

Today, Coren did prove to the poker world that it takes skills to be able to bag a championship, and bag it she did when she landed the European Championship title, earning herself a hefty million dollars along the way.

Early Childhood

Coren was not interested in what usually interests 15-year-old girls when she was at that age.  In fact, when girls her age were dating and talking about dresses and boys, she was still climbing trees or going to her grandmother's house for a visit. [Read][more...]

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