Archive for Category: "Poker"

Options for Real Money Poker in 2013

Options for Real Money Poker in 2013

Ever since Black Friday, the entire world has been scrambling for solid information about playing real money poker on the internet without many reliable sources to help. Despite the lack of legislation and the crackdown in payment processing, there’s still real money poker games being played in the United States. Outside of the USA, there’s [...]

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PokerStars Agrees to $731 Million Settlement with U.S. Government

PokerStars Agrees to $731 Million Settlement with U.S. Government

PokerStars has agreed to pay $731 million and will acquire Full Tilt Poker to settle civil charges that the company used fraudulent ways to process payments and avoid U.S. regulations on Internet gambling. The settlement between PokerStars and the U.S. Department of Justice consists of $547 million being paid by PokerStars to the U.S. government [...]

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Retrospective: A Year Since Poker’s Black Friday

Retrospective: A Year Since Poker’s Black Friday

It’s been over a year since that fateful day now known as Black Friday ruined many lives for people that love the poker industry. It wasn’t just the United States players that felt the hit, it was everyone around the globe. As a few of you know, I used to work full time in the [...]

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The Mental Game of Poker – Book Review

The Mental Game of Poker – Book Review

The Mental Game of Poker is written by renown sports therapist Jared Tendler, aimed at making poker players aware of their mental and emotions shortcomings in order to make them not just a better poker player, but a better functioning person. The book has the endorsements of many top online professional poker players including fellow [...]

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Interview with Tiffany Michelle

Interview with Tiffany Michelle

Sean Gibson from GamingIllustrated.com interviewed pro poker player Tiffany Michelle at the 2009 LAPC at Commerce Casino in Los Angeles.  In this interview they talk about her past career as an interviewer and how her budding career as a pro poker player is going.

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Interview with Matt Savage

Interview with Matt Savage

Gaming Illustrated caught up with Matt Savage at the 2009 LAPC at Commerce Casino. In this interview Savage talks about comments made by Daniel Negreanu, what it takes to create a fantastic high stakes poker tournament.

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Interview with Michael ‘The Grinder’ Mizrachi

Interview with Michael ‘The Grinder’ Mizrachi

We taped this interview with Michael “The Grinder” Mizrachi at the 2009 LAPC event from Commerce Casino in Los Angeles, CA.  In this interview Mizrachi talks about his 2009 goals as well as what it takes to win in today’s new era of poker.

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Interview with Maria Ho

Interview with Maria Ho

We met with professional poker player Maria Ho and talked poker with her at the LAPC 2009 from Commerce Casino in Los Angeles.  Shortly after this interview was taped, Maria Ho went on to appear on the CBS show “The Amazing Race” with Tiffany Michelle. [hana-flv-player video="http://yourwebsite.com/wp-content/plugins/hana-flv-player/babyhana.flv" width="400" height="320" description="Sarah is having fun in a [...]

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Holdem Manager Review

Holdem Manager Review

The folks at RVG Software (developers of this program) agreed to have us take a look at Holdem Manager. This program is completely approved across all the major internet poker rooms, from FullTilt Poker to PokerStars (for USA players specifically), and allows you to track your hands and those of your opponents. An essential aspect [...]

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WPT Boot Camp Review

WPT Boot Camp Review

I’d first like to start out the review by thanking the gracious staff of The World Poker Tour, as well as their PR people, for their generosity in allowing me the privilege in participating in their WPT Boot Camp event. I’d also like to thank them for their patience, as this editorial feature has taken [...]

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