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...]

Haralobos Voulgaris Talks about Continued Aggressiveness as a Poker Strategy

Today's poker players are so much more aggressive, especially the younger players.  Because of this, you really should have a good strategy to win your poker games.

Professional poker player Haralobos Voulgaris proves that selective continued aggressiveness is a good strategy, as he has shown in the 2008 WSOP's Main Event.

The 2008 WSOP

The blinds were set at $100 for the small blind and $200 for the big blind, and the player situated in the middle position raised his bet to $600.  Voulgaris were given AK of hearts during the small blind, so he raised his bet to $1,600.  His opponent then called his bet. [Read][more...]

WSOP Enters a Deal with 888 to Go Online

It seems that Harrah's Entertainment, considered as one of the world's largest casino operator as well as the owner of the World Series of Poker, is on its way to going online.  It has recently made a deal with 888, its B2B Division called the Dragonfish to be exact.  Harrah's Entertainment wants 888 to supply the software when they go online, so it will not be long when we are going to feel and see the presence of the WSOP online as well the brands of the Caesars Casino. [Read][more...]

PokerStars and Bluff to Sponsor Kent Senter Benefit

PokerStars wishes to give something back to a man who has been playing in its poker rooms for years now.  On September 12, 2009, at exactly 20:00H EST, the Kent Senter Benefit Tournament is going to commence.  The profits of this benefit tournament are going to go to the Senter family to help them pay for Kent Senter's, the head of the family, rising medical bills.

A Brief Background on Kent Senter

Kent Senter, a good man with a loving wife and family, was diagnosed two years ago with terminal cancer, especially since the cancer cells have already spread all throughout his spine.  [Read][more...]

WSOP Europe Starts in Two Weeks

Who says that the World Series of Poker is for Las Vegas, USA only?

Ten days from now, London is going to be the host city of the WSOP Europe this coming September 17.  The organizers of WSOP Europe are positive that their major poker series is going to attract poker pros from all over the world to compete for the major prize.  In fact, WSOP Europe is now accepting buy-in fees from poker players, and there is a good feeling that the said event is going to see some 1,700 players or more. [Read][more...]

Behind World Series of Poker

It is indeed the busy months once again for both ESPN and poker fans as the WSOP continues to air every Tuesday nights at the said cable network.  The show will continue to run each week until the final table showdown on November 10, and poker fans are given the chance to learn strategies and poker lessons.

Until then, players are given clips of the WSOP with players playing exciting poker hands with big piles of chips in front of them, but there are some things that viewers do not know.

It's Being Edited.

What you probably do not know is that the WSOP tournament also gets edited.  Of course, ESPN will not want to bore its viewers out of their wits by showing dull and boring hands or poker games that end much too quickly.  What they want to show its viewers are exciting hands and rounds of poker that resulted in an exchange of huge amounts of money, thus, the editing. [Read][more...]

World Series of Poker and ESPN, Partners for Seven More Years

Avid fans of poker from all over the world will surely be glad to know that the World Series of Poker and the ESPN has signed a new deal, and that is to be partners for seven more years in broadcasting and bringing to the rest of the world the biggest poker tournament.  The announcement to broadcast the WSOP tournaments through its 2017 world series will formally be given this Tuesday.

Assuring Poker Players and Fans

It was in 2003 that ESPN started airing the major poker tournament of WSOP, and because of its complete success, it became the home of the WSOP tournament yearly.  Right now, the cable network is going to finish its current contract, with the new contract beginning this 2011.  ESPN promises the same coverage is going to be given to WSOP during the seven-year contract, so avid fans of the series can expect 32 hours of nothing but aspiring and professional poker players battling it out at the felt table to try to win one of the poker world's biggest prizes. [Read][more...]

Prevalence of Energy Drinks and the World Series of Poker

With a major poker tournament like the World Series of Poker, competitors in the said tournament must have endurance and the power to stay alert and focused to get to the final table.  They would also need all their concentration to not only focus on the hands they hold but to also study their opponents to get a good read on them.  Due to stress, players sometimes lose their concentration and not play their optimum best.

There was a noticeable trend among poker players at the WSOP tournament to beat this, and that was to guzzle down lots of energy drinks at the table.  The question now is, is the energy drink doing more harm than good?

Advantages of Energy Drinks at the World Series of Poker

WSOP asks a lot from poker players.  Those who are aiming for the final table have to sit at their tables for almost 12 hours, and this routine gets repeated every day for five to six days.  [Read][more...]

“Inside Deal” to be seen in ESPN.com

«Inside Deal» one of the much watched poker show in the web will be making its appearance in ESPN.com this coming Tuesday, with Bernard Lee spearheading the show. At the premier of «Inside Deal» the show will focus on Chris Moneymaker who won the main event in the 2003 World Series of Poker.

The Poker Editor of ESPN.com, Andrew Feldman is excited with the debut of the Inside Deal at ESPN.com. According to him the Inside Deal is one of a kind and is just what the industry needs at the moment. By collaborating with the major network of ESPN.com, Inside Deal shall be the standard of all poker shows in the coming years. The show will be seen every Tuesday for three months and will end at the final stage of the Main Event of the World Series of Poker this November.

People can submit their inquiries to the host of «Inside Deal» through different internet sites such as Twitter, Facebook and e-mail. Another bonus given to loyal viewers is the chance to join the sweepstakes. [Read][more...]

Meet Mike Sexton

Mike Sexton will be 62 In September of this year as he was born in September 1947.  His birth state makes him a Hoosier although he and his brother went to the University of Ohio on a gymnast full scholarship.  He has been playing card games since he was a youth and his skill at the games was evident early in his adult life.  He played in college and even more when he finished a two-year hitch in the Army as Fort Bragg.  His after service job was as a Dance Instructor and working with a friend in a company the friend started.  The company sold articles to bases in North and South Carolina.  Along with his work he spent many hours playing variations of poker in the local card rooms.  His marriage ended and he lost the job, so he stepped up his poker playing for a few years and then he headed for Vegas to try his hand as a professional poker player.  One of the players that was his good friend growing up, and a player he learned from, later became a world-class seven-card stud player.  His friend from his youth was Danny Robinson. [Read][more...]

« Previous Page — Next Page »