You only have a few days remaining to make your application to become a volunteer State Director for the Poker Players Alliance (PPA). If the prospect of mobilising grass-roots support from fellow poker-players doesn’t fill you with glee, there are some compensations for “defending the great game of poker” as the PPA puts it, rather too dramatically.
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Julian Thew’s stunning success in the GUKPT event in Brighton last weekend confirmed his status as one of Britain’s best young players. He only started playing around six years ago, but his two 2008 cashes have already generated $192,000 for him this year.
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With the exception of the Grand Final, last year’s German Open proved to be the EPT’s most valuable event. Almost 500 players competed for a prize pool of 2.3 million euros only for Norwegian Andreas Hoivold to emerge victorious, pocketing 672,000 euros in the process. The latest EPT leg kicks off in Dortmund next Monday and while it is too late to qualify for the German extravaganza, there’s still plenty of time to make the Scandinavian Open which starts in Denmark’s capital Copenhagen on 19th February.
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Cricketer Shane Warne is no stranger to text messaging. Many will recall the ‘explicit’ message sent by the father-of-three to a 22 year-old New Zealand woman a few years back, while his playful activities with a pair of young fillies in a London flat were recorded for posterity on a phone camera. For Shane, his mobile is clearly an essential piece of kit.
However, perhaps someone should have told him that it’s bad form to use it while playing poker in a high-profile, televised event.
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Although the best place to play poker is at littlewoodspoker.com, there will come a time in every poker player’s life when he or she must play a live game. While the rules are obviously the same, there are some important differences which every player should be aware of to make the change from online to live as seamless as possible.
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Hi guys.
I’ve thought about how to phrase this question for some time, but after analysing my game, I’ve realised that whenever I become the chip leader (especially in tournament play), I can just as rapidly turn into a fish.
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Loading ...Book review: Poker Nation By Andy Bellin
Yellow Jersey Press
Among the plethora of occasionally dry poker instruction books dealing with strategy and instruction, from time to time, you may happen upon a title which, (shock, horror) actually tells a story. Poker Nation is one such tome, an autobiographical account of how one guy, while studying for a Masters degree in astrophysics, fell in love with poker. It is a marvellously amusing ride, replete with tales of high stakes poker, low-rent establishments and a cast of characters that any Hollywood director would die for.
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While most of us might be suffering from post-Christmas blues and dreading the dull thud of the latest credit card bill as it tumbles through the letterbox, there appear to be no such concerns in the Far East.
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Green visors were originally worn by clerks, beleaguered newspaper editors and others who spent their working lives reading text in brightly-lit surrounds. It’s possible that card dealers began wearing them for the same reason, although they have since become a readily-identifiable badge of office in every poker room.
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