Unique selling point There’s an old cowboy phrase… “Don’t squat with your spurs on.” Essentially it means don’t do something without thinking or it’s better to plan ahead. I believe that this especially true these days when it comes to poker. In my last article, I highlighted “The Festival” and the ways that they are putting effort ...
A race to the finish Angela Jordison was a revelation last year. The Oregonian ended 2021 with a flourish and came into 2022 with a fire in her belly. On the cusp of a famous double, in November she was atop the Global Poker Index (GPI) rankings for both Mid-Major and Female Player of the ...
Hudon the last man standing When play finally ended in the wee hours of Tuesday morning, talented mixed game specialist Benny Glaser was on the cusp of a prestigious No Limit Hold ‘Em title. Standing between him and the 2022 World Poker Tour (WPT) World Championship were five players, four of whom were trying to ...
Every sense tingling Build it and they will come. Hype it and they will develop a FOMO so pronounced that they board planes from the other side of the world. Deliver it and they will arrive to the Wynn as innocent as children, holes burnt into their pockets, every sense tingling. The players will pass over ...
A mouth-watering prize The World Poker Tour (WPT) Prime guaranteed a prize pool of $2m but three Day 1s have culminated in a 5,430 runner field. The $1,100 buy-in event drew an enormous crowd and generated a prize-pool of $5,267,100. There’s smashing a guarantee and then there’s obliterating one. the Las Vegas edition has defied all ...
Nixon bests an elite field to bag £93,970 Last Sunday saw popular poker player, vlogger, and Twitch streamer Jamie Nixon take down the £1,250 ($1,530) Grosvenor UK Poker Tour (GUKPT) London Main Event for a career best £93,970 ($115,039). Better yet, he did it on home soil of sorts – Nixon is a Grosvenor Poker ...
Grassroots poker The big headlines in poker are often reserved for the achievements of players in the upper echelons of the game, but the most important tier of poker, both live and online, is without doubt the lower stakes. Grassroots poker is the lifeblood of the game – a place where recreational players blow off ...
Impossible to exploit The phrase GTO has been bandied around in the poker space for the past decade or so, often misused and misunderstood as it pertains to the game we love. Game theory is essentially the branch of mathematics concerned with the analysis of strategies deployed in competitive situations where the outcome of a ...
WPT brings out the biggest gun The World Poker Tour is a promotional juggernaut right now with its upcoming mega-festival at the Wynn set to smash records as it hosts the tournament with the largest live guarantee of all time. Despite a head-on collision with European Poker Tour (EPT) Prague, the WPT is promising a ...
Jacobson wins £232,300 What it lacked in duration it more than made up for in excitement. I am talking, of course, about the UKIPT London Main Event final table which went bish, bash, bosh and was done and dusted before 4pm on Saturday. The £1,100 buy-in tournament drew a record field for a UKIPT event ...
