June 2011
JONATHAN DUHAMEL: Working Through Difficulties
It’s hard not to like Jonathan Duhamel. The 2010 Main Event champ did everything he could during his year as World Champion to promote the game. He accepted and embraced the poker ambassador role that is unfairly thrust upon the winner of the Main Event. He did the newspaper interviews, the autographs, the morning show [...]
Brad Garrett: The Donator
Brad Garrett is using poker for a chance to help those in need. By now you’re probably tired of hearing about the infamous Hollywood home games. Four or five movie stars, an agent or two, a producer, and maybe even a screenwriter sit down and buy in for what you told the IRS your gross [...]
Chad Brown: Beating the Odds
Former BLUFF Player of the Year Chad Brown makes a triumphant return to the tables while fighting cancer With more than $3.2 million in live tournament earnings, another $472,000 in online tournaments, and a reputation as a tough competitor in some of the world’s biggest mixed cash games — not to mention the 2006 BLUFF [...]
Extinction Event
Black Friday not only hurt online poker, but everything and everyone involved with it. Recreational poker players weren’t the only people who received a rude awakening on April 15, 2011, the day the U.S. Department of Justice unsealed a criminal indictment against PokerStars, Full Tilt Poker, UB and eight individuals. The long-flourishing U.S. poker industry, [...]
2011 WSOP Preview
Do yourself a favor; find yourself one of those “Back to the Future” DeLorean cars, travel back to May 1988, and head to downtown Las Vegas. You’ll land smack dab in the middle of the 1988 World Series of Poker at Binion’s Horseshoe and Casino on Freemont Street. You’ll probably be shocked by how different [...]
WSOP Players To Watch
The World Series of Poker has the ability to take the grinder you’ve never heard of and make him a poker legend in the span of seven weeks. In 2006, Jeffrey Madsen was a kid from Santa Monica that nobody had heard of. That’s when he showed up at the WSOP and won two [...]
WSOP Rookies To Watch
With online poker in the U.S. shut down, this may very well be one of the last years we’ll be able to identify a crop of World Series of Poker rookies poised to do some damage at the Rio. While some are obvious success stories, others are just the kind of 21 year-olds who [...]
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