Full Tilt Poker Pro Braz Bansi bested a field of 2,092 players to win the World Series of Poker (WSOP) $1,500 No Limit Hold ’em (Event #5) early Thursday Morning at the Rio Hotel and Casino in Las Vegas. The 32 year-old pro from England defeated Vincent “Vluff” Jacques heads-up to earn $515,501 and his… Read more »
Known online as ‘Whooookidd’ on PokerStars and ‘Bussa Buss’ on Full Tilt Poker and UB.com, David Baker is an extremely talented poker player. Born and raised in Bloomfield Hills, Michigan, Baker picked up poker while attending Michigan State College. He made the typical $50 online deposit but, as most novice players do, he lost it… Read more »
In past articles for this site, I discussed some general beginner strategies Omaha High-Low. Today, I would to drill down a bit more and present four types of starting hands that I frequently see overplayed by novice players. These hands can look great at first, but often result in nothing but trouble. Lone Ace-Deuce One… Read more »
Hailing from Calabasas, California, David Oppenheim began playing poker while he was at college. After becoming obsessed with the game, he turned it into a career and has been playing professionally for the last 15 years. Over that span, Oppenheim has developed into one of the most well known cash game players in the world… Read more »
The World Series of Poker kicked-off last Friday, but there’s still a month before the Main Event begins, which means there’s plenty of time for online players to win their seat on PokerStars. The world’s largest online poker site remains the best place to qualify for the prestigious tournament, with winners receiving packages that include… Read more »
Brooklyn born Dwyte Pilgrim may not have flashy titles or bracelets yet, but make no mistake about it, he’s a professional poker player. A master of finishing off mid-stakes buy-in tournaments, Pilgrim has carved out a nice living for himself over the past few years. In 2009, Pilgrim won a $500 World Series of Poker… Read more »
The day that many in the poker world have been waiting for arrived on Wednesday with Annette “Annette_15” Obrestad’s debut at the World Series of Poker (WSOP). After starting out well in Event #8, the $1,500 No Limit Hold’em tournament, Obrestad quickly learned about the battles during large field poker at the Rio. “Up to… Read more »
Known online as ‘basebaldy’, Eric Baldwin was an all-star Division-III baseball player who led his school to the 2005 NCAA National Championship before he was ever a poker player. Upon completing his degree, however, Baldwin realized that he didn’t want to get a job in his field (psychology), so he took up poker in hopes… Read more »
Move over Roger Clemens. Take a seat Mark McGwire. According to an article that appeared in the Los Angeles Times, researches from Nova Southeastern University found that poker players frequently ingest performance-enhancing drugs. The Florida university surveyed 198 poker players and found that “28% said they took at least one prescription medication to improve their… Read more »
Faraz “The Toilet” Jaka concludes the tour of his home building in downtown Chicago, which includes some of the sickest views in the entire city. In this final edition of his own homemade video, Jaka gives us a look at his outdoor grilling area as well as the building’s game room which of course, has… Read more »
What do you give a man who has 11 World Series of Poker (WSOP) bracelets? How about a 12th? UB.com pro Phil Hellmuth, fresh off an appearance in the music video for Ludacris’ new hit “Sex Room,” sits in 16th on the leaderboard after one day of play in Event #8 of the 2010 WSOP,… Read more »
Bernard Lee and the new segment “The Hijack Seat” is back with the second and final part of the Greg “Fossilman” Raymer interview. If you missed the first part of this interview you can watch it here – Greg “Fossilman” Raymer Interview Part 1. In this second part of the interview, Raymer discusses what he… Read more »
On today’s Daily Deal: the Mizrachi brothers make WSOP history, Eric Baldwin catches a lucky break, a household name in poker moves to a very different field, and a “household” name from a very different field makes an incursion in poker. Hello, I’m Sean Gibson; welcome to the Daily Deal by Poker News Daily. The… Read more »
On Sunday, June 6th, the virtual felts of the CEREUS Network site UB.com will come alive with a special 25-Seat Guarantee to send players to the 2010 World Series of Poker (WSOP) Main Event. The tournament begins promptly at 4:00pm ET and comes with a price tag of $530. The cost to get into the… Read more »
The World Series of Poker (WSOP) just saw the end of Event #2: $50,000 Poker Player’s Championship. The final table marked just the second time in WSOP history that two brothers made the final table of a tournament, with Robert Mizrachi holding the chip lead heading into play, while his brother, Michael “The Grinder” Mizrachi,… Read more »
To coincide with the start of the 2010 Word Series of Poker, PartyPoker recently launched their WSOP for Life promotion.The prize up for grabs is exactly what it sounds like: paid entry to the World Series of Poker Main Event for life (which, for the purposes of this promotion, is 20 years). The details of… Read more »
After ending the state run monopoly on internet gaming only two months ago, France is moving rapidly towards the licensing of new online gaming outlets for its citizens. In reports from the European online news station Rapid TV, the new French regulatory authority for online gaming, ARJEL (Autorité de Régulation des Jeux En Ligne, which… Read more »
First Cole South, now Brian Townsend. On his blog posted on Wednesday, Townsend revealed that he’d be stepping down as the lead instructor of the popular poker training site CardRunners. Instead, he outlined his new role: “I will still be around in the capacity that I was before I joined CardRunners as a lead instructor.… Read more »
In the debut of our new segment called “The Hijack Seat with Bernard Lee” we welcome 2004 WSOP Main Event Champion Greg Raymer. Raymer and Lee are old friends who talk about the start of the 2010 World Series of Poker and Fossilman’s perspective of how the spectacle of the event has grown since he… Read more »
UB.com’s Joe Sebok and Full Tilt Poker’s Gavin Smith are famous not just for being poker players and poker personalities, but also for their prop bets over the years. Smith has Sebok’s initials tattooed on his shoulder after losing a bet, Sebok had to wear several embarrassing costumes at the World Series of Poker (WSOP)… Read more »
Faraz Jaka is back with Part 2 of this three part series in which he takes us on a tour of his home at the Aqua building in downtown Chicago, Illinois. Jaka has won millions playing both online and live and can afford some of the swankiest digs around. In this exclusive video to Poker… Read more »
Faraz Jaka is one of the hottest tournament poker players playing today and is known only as “The Toilet” because he used to always love to hit flushes. Jaka made this video exclusively for Poker News Daily which is a tour of his home at the Aqua Building which is rated by some as the… Read more »
Born in Delray Beach, Florida on December 20, 1976, Michael Binger is a part-time poker player who now resides in Atherton, California. After doing his undergrad at North Carolina State University, Binger received a PhD in theoretical physics from Stanford University in 2006. A mere two months after his graduation, he finished third in the… Read more »
Born in Sunny Isles Beach, Florida in 1978, Robert Mizrachi was taught the game of poker by his mother at a very young age. The eldest of four boys, Robert introduced poker to his brothers and it remained a common thread between them as they grew up. While his younger sibling Michael ‘The Grinder’ is… Read more »
Originally from Wichita, Kansas, Kirk Morrison has had an interesting run as a professional poker player and gambler. At just 20 years of age, he moved to Las Vegas to play blackjack for a living. While in Sin City, Morrison met a group of young poker players – Daniel Negreanu, Layne Flack, and Allen Cunningham… Read more »
