July 2012
Editor's Letter – All In For a Good Cause
In the eight-year history of BLUFF we’ve had some interesting characters on our cover. We’ve mostly stuck to poker players the past few years but back in the early days you could have picked up BLUFF and found Donald Trump, James Woods or even NASCAR driver Jeff Gordon looking back at you from the front [...]
Guy Laliberté – Splashing the Pot
Cirque du Soleil founder Guy Laliberté isn’t afraid to put his money in the biggest pots. At this year’s World Series of Poker, he’s convinced several dozen people to do the same — for a $1,000,000 buy-in charity tournament. Guy Laliberté didn’t always spend a lot of time thinking about water. For the better part [...]
EPT 8: A Look at the Best of The European Poker Tour
Over the past 10 months, the eighth season of the European Poker Tour played out in exciting fashion across Europe with Danes capturing three titles, Belgian Davidi Kitai earning a Triple Crown distinction and an amateur taking down the PokerStars Caribbean Adventure. Tallin The kickoff tournament of EPT Season 8 in Tallin, Estonia, went to [...]
Shaun Deeb – Eyes on the Prize
Shaun Deeb came out of the 2012 SCOOP with more than he could carry With 120 events on the schedule and more than $65 million in prize money awarded, this year’s Spring Championship of Online Poker was the biggest event PokerStars had ever put on. Emerging as the two-week-long series’ top story with an unprecedented [...]
Solar Winds: Try to keep up Laak's on a Roll
Solar wind is a stream of charged particles ejected from the upper atmosphere of the sun. It is some pretty harsh stuff. Normally (over time) it would burn planet Earth into a crispy mess. Earth would be barren and unlivable place in no time flat. However, that is not what happens. Why? Because of Earth’s [...]
Antonio’s Friend Maxjoon: Count Your Blessings
It’s the beginning of the World Series of Poker. I’ve told the entire world that I will be occupied for the next 45 days and that I apologize in advance for not being available for anyone for anything. No exceptions! Well … that was until my friend’s father passed away just the other day. The [...]
It's Time to Quit New York
The Siren Call of the Degen Life is too Strong It’s been hard living a virtually poker free existence. I am in New York doing a Broadway play. I thought once the show was up and running I would start playing again. After all, when I did “Grasses” in London, I would go to the [...]
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