January 2012
A Look At 2012: A View Of The Future
If poker were a person and not an industry or a game, he’d look back at 2011 and decide that was the worst year of his life. Sure, internationally, the game grew a little bit and a new poker league was launched, but Black Friday was the equivalent of getting fired on the day you [...]
Welcome to the Club
GREENSTEIN, JOHNSON JOIN THE ELITE IN THE HALL OF FAME Just hours before Pius Heinz won the 2011 WSOP Main Event, the poker world took care of some business – inducting Barry Greenstein and Linda Johnson into the Poker Hall of Fame as the Class of 2011. Greenstein, 56, and Johnson, 58, were inducted after [...]
Scott Clements Isn’t That Intense
In his seven-year-long poker career Scott Clements has won almost $5 million in live tournaments plus millions more online. Along the way he’s picked up two WSOP bracelets and, officially, one World Poker Tour title, but the 30-year-old contends he’s actually got two of those. BLUFF sat down with Clements to talk about poker, fatherhood [...]
PIUS HEINZ MAIN EVENT CHAMP
For the fourth consecutive year, a young man in his early 20s is sitting at the top of the poker world as the World Series of Poker Main Event champion. At just 22 years old, Pius Heinz has continued the trend of players who transferred their training and knowledge from the virtual felt to the [...]
The Legend of Benny Binion
We’ve all heard the stories… some of which are apparently true. So, I’ve turned 21 and can get a police card to work in a casino, if need be. After misadventures traveling from our beloved West Texas, all along Route 66, the Mother Road, America’s Highway, my poker and road partner and I are beating [...]
Cash Games Galore
Played a lot of poker these past few weeks. Just tons of cash games. Not traveling, no turnys, just cash games. Playing so much cash these last few weeks has me feeling a bit like it was back in the day. Play, sleep, eat and play again. Of course these days I mix in a [...]
Trying To Quit
IT’S NOT ME, IT’S YOU I am at a crystal store in Santa Monica and I run into Shannon Elizabeth. She is wearing a white sweater, and a white knit hat. She looks happy and healthy. I’ve quit poker she says. I feel a twinge of envy. How did you do it? I ask. How [...]
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