Archive | October, 2010

What is the Black Card from Full Tilt Poker?

black-card-experience

Online card rooms are always looking for new ways to reward their most loyal players, and FullTiltPoker.com’s new Black Card is one of the newest.  It offers bonuses and extra amenities for players who earn it, and therefore it will likely become a status symbol among serious players.To earn the Black Card, players must earn  Read more »

Nine Days of the November Nine

PBJaxx WSOP

Bodog Poker’s Nine Days of The November Nine: Jason SentiAn electrical engineer and musician turned poker pro, Jason Senti (also known as “PBJaxx” in online poker circles) may be the low man on the totem pole at the final table of the 2010 World Series of Poker, but that still makes him better than at  Read more »

Online Pro Becomes Youngest Two-Time Word Poker Tour Champ

Randal Flowers (Photo courtesy of Cardplayer.com)

The record holder for youngest World Poker Tour champion can now add “youngest two-time winner” to his resume.Randal Flowers bested a field of 335 players in the $10,000 WPT Festa al Lago Main Event at the Bellagio in Las Vegas, taking the top prize of $831,500.  The 22-year-old online pro entered Wednesday’s final table with  Read more »

Is it Illegal to Play Online Poker?

Internet Poker

The Unlawful Internet Gaming Enforcement Act, also known as the UIGEA, was established on September 30, 2006. This act, was passed in an effort to make the involvement of Internet gambling, and Internet gaming, unlawful under United States Federal law.What the UIGEA does specifically, is prohibit any enterprise, business or individual involved in “unlawful Internet  Read more »

Balancing Your Range

Balance Scale

Oddly enough, what inspired me to write a strategy article on range balancing was an intricate question asked by, who else, my mother. While she’s certainly not a poker professional, she does possess a general knowledge of the game of poker. And surprisingly enough, after watching a recent episode of Poker After Dark, posed a  Read more »

Jean-Robert Bellande, What it Truly Means to be Broke

Jean-Robert Bellande

Poker, in itself, is often times viewed as a game of chance, even luck. While those particular characteristics are certainly incorporated, the game of poker encompasses so much more information. Poker’s complexity is often dissected into many categories, and we all have generated our own hypothesis about the skill and longevity of poker.While all of  Read more »

Award Winning Filmmaker Andrew Jenks Covers Nick Schulman in the “World of Jenks”

Nick Schulman [photo courtesy of Nickschulmanpoker.com]

The “World of Jenks,” which is an MTV documentary series which covers the individual lives of interesting people and cultures, is set to air an episode on October 11th at 10pm/9c which features the Full Tilt Poker professional Nick Schulman.The series is intended to depict the complexity and intrigue of life’s most challenging struggles and  Read more »

Ziigmund Nearly Even, Isildur1′s Losses Continue

Ziigmund

Although most poker pros, fans, and railbirds alike would certainly say that Pot-Limit Omaha has been the latest game of choice amongst the high stakes professionals, some might say that No-Limit Hold’Em has made a considerable return in late 2010.With players such as isildur1, and Daniel “jungleman12″ Cates leading the scene, action has been regularly  Read more »

Man-tonius Back on the Hunt, Goes After WastedPotential for $355K

Patrik Antonius

Finnish poker pro Patrik Antonius is back at the high stakes Pot-Limit Omaha tables on Full Tilt Poker, this time taking on new opponent, WastedPotential.Although Patrik Antonius is known to be an incredible heads-up Pot-Limit Omaha player, he hasn’t played a ton of heads-up PLO in 2010, probably due to his incredible downswing during the  Read more »

A Repeat Performance for the EPT London Champion

UKIPT 2010 Champion of Champions [photo courtesy of Pokerstars.com]

David “Vampy” Vamplew, the winner of the European Poker Tour London event, made it two for two this past Tuesday with another score at the Champion of Champions event at the PokerStars UK & Ireland Poker Tour in London at the Hilton Metropole.While beating a field of 848 of the best poker players in the  Read more »