Johnny Moss – The First WSOP Texas Hold’em Champ

Legendary Poker player Johnny Moss was taught how to play poker when he was ten-years-old by a ring of card cheats. He learned the art so well that as a teen he was hired by a local gambling parlor to... continued

Tom McEvoy

Tom McEvoy once did for live tournament poker what Chris Moneymaker did years later for the WSOP in a much bigger way: Ignite the idea that almost anyone dedicated enough could come out of nowhere and... continued

Dusty Schmidt – Don’t Listen To Phil Hellmuth

In what has to be one of the most provocative titles for a poker book ever penned, Poker pro Dusty “Leatherass” Schmidt has written a book entitled Don’t Listen To Phil Hellmuth: Correcting The 50... continued

Huck Seed

An assortment of the best poker players in the world were randomly paired up recently in Full Tilt Poker’s Double Poker Championship, with sixteen qualifying matches and two semifinals matches, culminating... continued

A Million Reasons to Get Beat Bad at UB.com

Competition at UB.com is hotter than ever, but with a twist. More players at the online poker room are hoping to have a monster hand and get it cracked, thanks to the site’s Bad Beat Jackpot climbing... continued

Sorel Mizzi – The Super Run

In late October 2010 Sorel Mizzi’s hot streak showed no sign of cooling. The Canadian poker pro beat out a field of almost 5,000 entrants creating a prize pool in PokerStars Sunday Warm-up of $957,200... continued

Bobby Baldwin: Poker Playing Casino Boss

Back when the World Series of Poker began and was played at the legendary Horseshoe Casino, Bobby Baldwin was in 1978 the youngest person ever to win the game at twenty-eight. In the last few years, with... continued

John Juanda Can Hang

The official Asian Poker Tour (APT) Macau Festival is now over with an 18-year-old player named Zhang Dan Peng taking down the Main Event for a first prize of HKD $1.68 million (equivalent to US $215,000). Although... continued

Gavin Smith

At this year’s World Series of Poker (WSOP) Full Tilt Poker pro Gavin Smith stood out amidst the gushing tide of Canadian pride by wearing a blue Toronto Maple Leafs hockey jersey as opposed to those... continued

November Niner Soi Nguyen Picks Up FTOPS Win

Self-proclaimed amateur Soi Nguyen was the first player knocked out at the 2010 WSOP Main Event Final Table, yet he has boosted his ninth place cash by winning his first FTOPS event as a Full Tilt Red... continued

2008 WSOP Main Event Champion Peter Eastgate

When 2008’s WSOP champion’s bracelet showed up on eBay recently, it provoked a lot of talk on poker forums, and it seemed posters were somewhat divided between those who thought he had completely lost... continued

Erick Lindgren

Erick “E-Dog” Lindgren was once asked in an interview what the most challenging part of poker was for him these days. And given the relative youthfulness of this year’s WSOP Final Table his answer... continued

The Ambassador of Poker: Mike Sexton

The internationally syndicated show the World Poker Tour (WPT) co-host Mike Sexton had never cashed in a WPT tourney before the 2010 WPT Borgata Poker Open, because prior to this year he was contractually... continued

Jonathan Duhamel – First Class Canadian Poker Champ

The journey began three years ago when Jonathan Duhamel deposited $100 into an online poker account and ended with him becoming a World Poker Champion and the hero to a nation. The 23-year-old former strawberry... continued

Cool Stuff from the Full Tilt Store

After racking up a decent amount of Points (FTP) we checked out the Full Tilt Store to do an impromptu review of what they have to offer. As you may or not know, FTP’s are the online poker rooms way... continued

Past Poker Greats: Puggy Pearson

On Friday, April 28, 2006 poker lost a true legend. Voted into the Poker Hall of Fame in 1987, Walter Clyde “Puggy” Pearson died at the age of 77. Besides being generally beloved by all who... continued

Poker Hall of Fame Member Henry Orenstein

You may not recognize the name of 2008 inductee into the Poker Hall of Fame, Henry Orenstein, but you’ve certainly seen his work. Every time you watch poker on television, you are viewing the player’s... continued

TJ Cloutier

Thomas James ‘T.J.’ Cloutier was born on a Friday the 13th in 1939 under a betting star, and to this day, anyone will tell you he has a lot of gamble in him. A big fellow and a natural athlete,... continued

The Poker Playing Mizrachi Brothers

When the 41st annual World Series of Poker (WSOP) resumes play on Saturday, November 6th, 2010 at 12 noon, the final nine players out of a field of 7,319 entrants in the $10,000 No-Limit Texas Hold’em... continued

Billy Baxter, Poker Player Biography

William E. Baxter, Jr., known to the poker world simply as Billy Baxter, single handedly made the greatest contribution to the game of poker completely away from the tables. In fact, his accomplishment... continued

Vanessa Selbst Team PokerStars Pro

One of the most recent additions to Team PokerStars Pro is twenty-six-year-old law student and part time pro poker player Vanessa Selbst. The third year student at Yale Law School just decided to take... continued

Annette Obrestad – “Annette_15”

With only 13 players left in the recent World Poker Tour’s (WPT) Festa al Lago $10,000 Main Event, Annette “Annette_15” Obrestad headed into day five with the biggest chipstack and all the smart... continued

Joe “Seebs” Sebok

Last week, Joe “Seebs” Sebok rappelled from the top of the headquarters of the WSOP, all the way down the side of the Rio Hotel to help raise money for the Special Olympics. Sponsored by special-events... continued

Gus Hansen: The Great Dane

Although he played in his first World Series of Poker as far back as 1996, has seven WSOP cashes to his credit, is 20th on the All Time Money List, is the only player to own four World Poker Tour (WPT)... continued

Patrik Antonius

On the Patrik Antonius Fanblog, the headline proclaims, “Patrik Antonius is the most sexy poker player in the world.” Others have called him a Norse god. Antonius, with his perfectly shaped head and... continued

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