Oct 3
Methodical would be an understatement in describing the final table of the 2008 World Series of Poker Europe. Clocking in at a record 22 hours, the finale was as much an endurance test as a poker tournament, as John Juanda…
Erica Schoenberg is one of those rare women who could stack you at no-limit hold’em in one moment and school you in beer pong the next. Equally at home in Manolo Blahnik stilettos or her beloved Cleveland Cavaliers jersey, Schoenberg…
Day 1b of the PokerStars.net European Poker Tour London Main Event kicked off with a field full of EPT champions, WSOP champions, online superstars and one Olympic gold medalist. A field of 309 players started the day…
Women have come a long way in poker. There is no doubt that we are strong in numbers behind the scenes and online but the number of women playing live is nowhere close to what it could be. I ask women who I know to be strong…
An overflow crowd of nearly 300 players descended upon the Grosvenor Victoria Casino for Day 1a of the PokerStars.net European Poker Tour London Main Event. The field was originally capped at 500, but the turnout far exceeded initial…
John Juanda kicked off Day 4 of the 2008 World Series of Poker Europe Main Event as the chip leader, and carried that designation throughout the day and all the way to the final table as top players from the live and online worlds…
Ivan Demidov, the 27-year-old from Moscow, Russia, poured himself into his first World Series of Poker this summer, playing almost every event over the seven-week series. By the time the Main Event was set to start, however…
The Empire Casino in London’s Leicester Square continued hosting many of the most famous faces in poker as Day 3 of the 2008 World Series of Poker Europe kicked off. Andy Bloch started the day with the chip lead, followed closely by…
The latest attempt at creating a safe, regulatory framework at the federal level for skill games such as poker has come about in the form of the Internet Skill Game Licensing and Control Act, S. 3616, introduced by Senator Robert…
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Stu Angar- The best Poker Player ever
Stu Ungar currently has the record of the best Poker Player in he world. His brilliance and Intuition in the game of Poker has really made Stu Ungar the most calculative and experienced player in the game. As good has he appears in the game of Poker, his terrible drug habits and betting has practically ruined both his career and life. He was reported to have made a total amount of $25 million during his career as a poker player. He however died wretched because of his gambling lifestyle which made him lose all he made in the game. His first major break was in 1980 when he won the WSOP . He was the first professional Poker player that won 3 major tournament back-to-back and was referred to as non-ordinary or unreal Poker player at that time.
Stu Ungar has also won several major Poker Tournaments shortly before his death and he has a record of the Poker player to have won the highest number of Bracelets. Apart from his wreckless lifestyle, Stu Ungar is regarded as many young Poker players as their hero. He made more money than even most of the living Professional Poker players in the world today. He was regarded as many as “the god of poker” and a great influence to the game.
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Oct 2
Phil Ivey- A great poker player and motivator
Phil Ivey is one of the greatest poker player that ever lived on this planet. He was born in 1976 in Riverside, CA. Phil Ivey was exposed to the rudiments and secrets of the game of Poker at an early age by his father who loved to cheat on him while playing. Phil Ivey’s major break into the game of poker started at the Atlantic city’s casinos at the age of 20 where he lost most of his poker games due to his naivety and lack of experience. He was able to turn his misfortunes into greatness by learning from his mistakes and at the age of 21 he started competing in several series of International Poker games, and in his first year of competing at world major events, he was able to make it to the finals of 2 major championships. He won one of the two finals and he received his first bracelet as a professional poker player. In 2002 he was able to break the world record of the highest number of bracelets won by a Poker player.
Phil Ivey attended is first million-dollar tournament in 2006 when he was invited for the First European Masters tournament. Though he made it to the final poker tables but finished 7th behind great poker players like Tony G and Gus Hansen. He later won the event and pocketed $100,000 at the end of the world series championships in London in the same year. Phil Ivey later in 2007 also entered for the Monte Carlo Million dollar Poker and the NBC poker tournament and won a combine whopping sum of $1.6 million . Ivey Phil has made total $7 million during his career as one of the greatest Poker player around today.
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Ivan Demidov, the 27-year-old from Moscow, Russia, poured himself into his first World Series of Poker this summer, playing almost every event over the seven-week series. By the time the Main Event was set to start, however…
The Empire Casino in London’s Leicester Square continued hosting many of the most famous faces in poker as Day 3 of the 2008 World Series of Poker Europe kicked off. Andy Bloch started the day with the chip lead, followed closely by…
The latest attempt at creating a safe, regulatory framework at the federal level for skill games such as poker has come about in the form of the Internet Skill Game Licensing and Control Act, S. 3616, introduced by Senator Robert…
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