
Professional poker players Hoyt Corkins, Jason Mercier and Yevgeniy Timoshenko recently shared a story to PokerListings that I thought was very interesting. In it, the poker pros talk about how it is easy to gain experience really fast in online poker because you get to play a lot of hands in a short amount of time. However, they remark that Read the rest
By Gaby on Mar 2, 2010 in Poker Pros, Featured, Poker, Online Poker

Gavin Smith was taking part of the WPT LA Poker Classic Main Event at the Commerce Casino when this prop best came to exist. The Canadian poker pro won a crazy last longer prop bet with fellow poker pros Read the rest
By Gaby on Feb 28, 2010 in WPT, Poker Pros, Las Vegas, Featured

The Latin American Poker Tour came to an end and it was Team PokerStars Pro member Jose ‘Nacho’ Barbero who took down the event and became the second Latin American player to achieve this. Barbero was awarded with Read the rest
By Gaby on Feb 28, 2010 in LAPT, Featured, Poker

Tony Parker is an NBA champion who began his career in PAris and played with the French national team and then became part of the San Antonio Spurs in 2001. He is also recognized for being married to beautiful Eva Longoria and for winning the NBA Finals MVP award in 2007.
Recently, we heard that Parker was developing a more serious interest in poker. For the past couple of years he was seen at high-profile charity poker events with Longoria but now the NBA star has signed an endorsement deal with Read the rest
By Gaby on Feb 26, 2010 in Poker Pros, Featured, Site Sponsors

The PokerStars EPT Copenhagen is already down to 9 players (instead of the usual 8 at the final table) and they will be broadcasting the action on PokerStars.tv
Italian poker player Francesco De Vivo is on the lead and right behind him is Read the rest
By Gaby on Feb 22, 2010 in EPT, Poker Pros, Featured

Last Thursday it was announced that Sedo, a global domain marketplace, sold the domain Poker.org for $1 million! This was a record-breaking figure for a .org domain. The buyer was Read the rest
By Gaby on Feb 19, 2010 in Poker Sites, Featured, Gambling News

Online casino jackpots have been breaking records lately. Currently, the highest progressive jackpot is the MegaJackpots from WagerWorks. This jackpot is running at a stunning figure of Read the rest
By Gaby on Feb 15, 2010 in Casino Jackpots, Featured, Casino, Online Casinos

We already saw the first part of Durrrr’s Live Challenge so if you got hooked the good news are that you can now watch the second episode online too.
If you missed out on this, Durrrr’s Live Challenge was played in London in November 2009 and he faced three opponents heads up. Each player brought Read the rest
By Gaby on Feb 13, 2010 in High Stakes, Poker Pros, TV Poker, Featured

On Sunday we got to see the first episode of the World Series of Poker Europe Main Event broadcast on ESPN. The action was intense as it involved a great hand between Ian Munns and Viktor Blom (who many think is Isildur1).
In the hand Viktor Blom starts out by raising to 3,000 with Kd 2d, Munn re-raised to Read the rest
By Gaby on Feb 9, 2010 in Poker Pros, TV Poker, WSOPE, Featured, Poker