Whenever my 2-year-old, or my 2-year-old, or my 4-year-old does not display what I would call ideal behavior – like smacking me – I put her, her or him in time out.
But I’m also learning to put myself in time out when I’m not playing what I would call ideal poker.
Hey. The game is frustrating. [...]
The World Poker Congress will be held from June 24th-25th at the Sheraton Hotel and Spa in Porto, Portugal and it has been announced that one of the speakers this year will be from Party Gaming, the company behind the online poker site, Party Poker. Part of the focus of the World Poker Congress will [...]
Online poker room Cake Poker has come up with a mobile platform for their poker software, giving their poker players the ability to take their game on the go, anywhere they have service. To install Cake Poker Mobile, players must have a Windows Mobile 5.0 cell phone device, as well as Microsoft’s .NET Compact Framework, [...]
Amit Makhija, known online as amak316, has a WPT final table, a WSOP final table and an FTOPS win for over $500,000. His tournament cashes exceed four million dollars and he has achieved this in just a few short years.KL: How important do you think respect is in poker? Amit: I don't think respect [...]
Three-tiered tournaments are so ‘in’ right now.
Bodog will offer three unique buy-in levels for its Bodog Poker Open III tournament series, which kicks off this Sunday, April 26.
The popular poker site will offer a championship series (with entries ranging from $55 to $500), a mid-stakes series (from $22 to $163), and a mini-bounty series (from [...]
After a week of tournaments, the Spring Championship of Online Poker (SCOOP) saw everyone from amateur players to sponsored pros like Hevad Khan winning events. There were so many players that the majority of the guarantees were left far behind for bigger and better prize pools. PokerStars had a bona fide success story on its [...]
In the past two years, poker players and celebrities have come together to raise nearly $2 million for the humanitarian efforts in Darfur in their Ante Up For Africa tournaments. Today, PokerStars announced that it would contribute to the cause by hosting the first-ever Ante Up For Africa Europe Celebrity Poker Tournament on April 27, [...]
The fifth day of the Foxwoods Poker Classic began with just 10 players from the initial field of 259, and the plan was to play down to the final table of six before play would end. This short order took a little bit longer than expected as play lasted more than five hours to reach [...]
Mike Matusow’s voice booms through the foyer of the Soho Hotel. He’s shouting at Allen Cunningham, trying to persuade him to come and join him at the bar. Cunningham smiles and politely holds up his hand, as if to say, ‘Sorry, not right now.’ An unperturbed Matusow shifts his attention to other members of Team [...]
Online poker room Cake Poker has recently announced that they will be offering prize packages to the upcoming World Series of Poker to be held in Las Vegas, Nevada. The satellite games will give players the chance to win seats to both the main event, with its $10k buy in, and a smaller event, number [...]
