Second Best Thing in the World
In his recent audio blog on Pokerroad.com Barry Greenstein discuss an unusual topic-poker players strange and cruel sense of humor. It is noticeable lately that Barry started to gravitate toward more philosophical and human aspects of the game. Probably, technical …
Posted by admin at January 29th, 2009 | No Comments »Heroes and Zeroes for January
First up for this month is the zeroes of January. Absolute Poker and Ultimate Bet have earned a permanent spot on my zeroes list, so congrats on that.
I’m also gonna add Lou Fabiano and Warren Jolly to this month’s…
Posted by admin at January 29th, 2009 | No Comments »Poker Revolution in Russia?
Generally speaking, it is very rare when Russia can clam being innovative and progressive in something not related to space or weapons technologies . Amazingly, it is poker where Russia made an advance which looks like a real revolution, especially…
Posted by admin at January 28th, 2009 | No Comments »PokerStars’ Flawed Reward System
PokerStars needs to restructure their VIP system.
Almost a month into the new year has passed and there are still no answers as to what PokerStars is going to change with their reward system or if they will change their…
Posted by admin at January 27th, 2009 | No Comments »2009 Aussie Millions High Stakes Gam
Many Internet sites are reporting about million dollar buy-in poker game on Sunday in Melbourne’s Crown Casino. The game started as head-up match between Patrik Antonius and Tom “Durrrr” Dwan with $ 1,000/ 2,000 blinds and alternation between no-limit hold’em…
Posted by admin at January 27th, 2009 | No Comments »The 2009 WSOP Schedule
Harrah’s released the 2009 WSOP poker schedule. The wait is over, and the big news is that we will be waiting until the middle of November again for the Main event Champion to be declared. ESPN and Harrah’s have decided…
Posted by admin at January 27th, 2009 | No Comments »Doyle’s Room to Join Cake Network
Cake poker continues to expand.
Doyle’s Room is set to join the Cake network and leave the Microgaming Network. Cake has been doing all it can to become a strong competitor in the online poker world, especially in the…
Posted by admin at January 27th, 2009 | No Comments »“Live at the Bike”- cash games like you have never seen before
Way before the explosion in instructional poker sites and proliferation of poker related video materials, one online broadcast made it possible to learn how to play cash games in a very special way. In 2005 the Bicycle Casino in Los…
Posted by admin at January 25th, 2009 | No Comments »Poker Stars needs “Bet Pot” button !
Recently, after spending a year playing on Full Tilt and UltimateBet, I revived my PokerStars account and was shocked to discover that all the problems, which forced me to stop playing there are still intact. My major problems were, generally…
Posted by admin at January 24th, 2009 | No Comments »Daniel Negreanu’s $100,000 Challenge
Daniel Negreanu apparently is going the way of Chris Ferguson.
Daniel, as cited in his blog, has taken up the challenge to build his bankroll to $100K by playing at the micro limits.
Daniel is going to start with…
Posted by admin at January 23rd, 2009 | No Comments »Rabbit Hunting at Aced Poker
I opened up an account at Aced Poker a few days ago. I deposited a few dollars to check out some of the features that they offer but I don’t think that I lasted more than 20 minutes at the…
Posted by admin at January 22nd, 2009 | No Comments »Barry Greenstein Talks “High Stakes Poker”
In his recent radio blog entry on Pokerroad.com Barry Greenstein talks about his play during the fifth season of “High Stakes Poker”. The show will be aired starting in March on GSN network. Greenstein sounds disappointed by his play or…
Posted by admin at January 21st, 2009 | No Comments »Changing Game?
If you listen carefully to many professionals speaking about the changes in poker, you hear them saying over and over that the game is changing and getting tougher. You can almost hear people blaming instructional sites and the proliferation of…
Posted by admin at January 17th, 2009 | No Comments »Tom “Durrrr” Dwan’s Million Dollar Challenge
It looks like one of the exciting on-line poker stories of the year is quickly emerging after Tom “Durrrr” Dwan announced his open challenge in heads-up Holdem or Omaha. In his statement, Tom Dwan describes the conditions of the challenge.…
Posted by admin at January 15th, 2009 | No Comments »Poker Bonus: Match And Max
Most people who play online poker know about online poker bonuses. They know that many poker rooms offer a bonus deal and they want to find the biggest bonuses possible, which usually means a 100 percent match bonus that doubles…
Posted by admin at January 13th, 2009 | No Comments »