By Christopher Cosenza Historians can trace the roots of poker to another continent thousands of years ago, but if aliens visited our planet today they’d
Our 2011 Ante Up Player of the Year is Darryll Fish of Hallandale Beach, Fla. Known as DFish online, Darryll had a late surge last
As a regular player you always want to see new players come to the game. If I can encourage others to learn hold’em, I do. Getting new players on the felt is the job of a poker room manager, so a brainstorming session with Santa Ana Star’s Dan Higginbotham led us to start a new-player […]
What is worse than a cold deck? Catching cold cards in cold weather. Welcome to Michigan in the dead of winter. I bet you’re like
There were many casualties from the fallout of Black Friday (April 15, 2011), none more devastating than an online pro looking to keep his home
With the new year comes exciting changes for the Lumière Place poker room: a new manager, new tournament structures and a national tournament series. Anthony
The Chicago area had a champions battleduring the Windy City Poker Championshipin mid December as one World Series of Poker champion, two World Poker Tour champions and four Heartland Poker Tour champions were in attendance. Colorful high-stakes amateur Rick Rahim (made famous from his stint on Fox’s the Big Game) was there along with fellow […]
On Dec. 17, I attended the second annual Phil Hellmuth’s Hold’em with Agrace HospiceCare charity event in Madison because Hellmuth invited me to be one
Kou Vang captured first place and $64,465 on Dec. 12 at the final event of Season 2 of the Mid-States Poker Tour at Canterbury Park
Oklahoma saw major changes to key properties in 2011 (management changes), but that hasn’t dammed up the flow of players to Downstream Casino. New poker
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