One of the most basic hold’em strategies often overlooked by players regardless of skill level is control. Let’s take a closer look. All players control
I was playing recently in a $5-$10 PLO game at the Horseshoe in Hammond Indiana and had an interesting river situation. We were deep-stacked and
Just one month after New Jersey opened real-money online poker to its residents and visitors, the numbers are coming in and they’re pretty impressive. More
By Scott Long When Seminole Hard Rock Hollywood announced a jaw-dropping $10 million guarantee tournament that would need to attract at least 2,000 players to
A group of Wisconsin poker players, headed by Poker Players Alliance state director Steve Verrett, has hired an attorney that will issue a declaratory judgment
The Horseshoe Casino in Council Bluffs held its annual Holiday Poker Classic between Christmas and New Year’s Eve. This had a good turnout for the various events with 570 entries overall. Here’s a recap of the undercard events: Joshua Todd won the $125 no-limit hold’em “Fat Stack” event, beating 94 players to earn $2,762. The […]
January saw the Hollywood Casino attract 440 players to Ohio Poker Championship Main Event, an outstanding event hosted by 2003 world champ Chris Moneymaker. The event chopped four ways with a $42K first prize going to Iverson “Cotton” Snuffer of Charleston, W.V., and $28.5K to Cleveland’s unstoppable Mark Wahba, a.k.a. the Egyptian, James Ross and […]
Ten years ago, Chicagoland’s first major tournament, the Chicago Poker Championship, launched at Harrah’s East Chicago. Thomas Doyle won the main event. The next year, Doyle did it again, and remains the only Chicagoland player to win back-to-back main events. The second CPC main event had Annie Duke among the field, making her the first […]
In December, the 19th Foxwoods Mega Stack Challenge delivered a combined $860K prize pool and 2,290 entrants for nine deepstack events. New England has seen tremendous growth in the number of poker rooms and tournament series over the past few years, but Foxwoods continues to draw crowds and remains the center of the Northeast poker […]
Cypress Bayou Casino will close its poker room Feb. 2. This decision was made by the casino’s management team and out of the poker room manager’s hands. The staff will reduce the requirements to hit the bad-beat jackpot (at $90K as of Jan. 1) to allow the regulars a chance to hit the jackpot before […]
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