by Rebecca McAdam | Published: Nov 22, '09
… . The board fell 7 7 5 7 8 and Visser was put out of the event. New PokerStars Team Pro player Jude Ainsworth was healthy enough chip-wise with 491,000 in seventh place on the leader board at start of play, but Lellouche’s slayer, Antonio Matias was out …
by Ryan Lucchesi | Published: Nov 20, '09
… is in striking distance with 5,463. With just 595 points separating the top three players in the race there is still enough time for anything to happen between them and nothing is decided just yet. Two other players that are still a threat, although …
by Ryan Lucchesi | Published: Nov 19, '09
… million playing poker professionally heading in to October 2009, but oddly enough he had never won a live major tournament title. Baron has … hands on the button, I figured that my nines were strong enough to hold onto in that spot. Rather than just call off …
by Kristy Arnett | Published: Nov 20, '09
… Raynham, Massachusetts, is a 31-year-old wine and liquor salesman. He’s been playing for six years and would like to win enough money to be able to compete in the 2010 WSOP main event. Barboza and Odumuyiwa are looking to do better than the first two …
by Julio Rodriguez | Published: Nov 19, '09
… him $550,000, and Dwan added an additional $160,000 when all was said and done. You’d think the events of the day were enough to make the man want to take a break, but not Isildur1. He then decided to take on the Fins, Patrik Antonius and Ilari “Ziigmund …
by Kristy Arnett | Published: Nov 13, '09
… better off just betting that hand on the flop, because a lot of them play way too passively and do not check-raise the flop enough. They fold so often that it’s worth betting there. But when you are playing a good player, I think it’s a situation in which …
by Justin Marchand | Published: Nov 13, '09
… he recalls. “I started playing at the Oaks Card Club. They had probably 20 tables of lowball and one table of high draw. I didn’t have enough to buy in for the lowball. The cheapest game was $3-$3 with a $100 buy-in. But they had a $1 blind high draw-poker …
by Rebecca McAdam | Published: Nov 01, '09
… don’t like to play any smaller than what I said, because I don’t feel motivated to play my best if there is not enough on the line. RM: What was your best moment in poker? YB: Definitely winning two FTOPS events at the same time. They both started at …
by Rebecca McAdam | Published: Nov 01, '09
… childish mischief, which you can’t help but warm to over time. “If you look at my success for my age I thinks it’s fair enough to say, yeah, I should go on to big things, but past success is no guarantee of future success. I think if I work hard, good …
by Jeff Hwang | Published: Oct 30, '09
… , the minimum buy-in of $200 (40 times the bring-in) is high enough to prevent short-stacking, but low enough to allow entry-level players to at least take a shot at the game. Structure Summary $1-$2 …