Poker Amateurs To Beat The Best
One of the fascinating attractions of poker is the everyday man can pit themselves against the world’s best players and come out on top. When you enter tournaments online you don’t exactly know who you are coming up against, reputations count for nothing. The closer you get to the higher stake games, or tournaments holding prestigious …
Year Of The Online Poker Generation
The 2010 World Series of Poker is in full swing and already a number of players who cut their teeth by learning how to play poker online have had some deep finishes. Could the 2010 be the year the online generation dominates the WSOP? At least three players who have already won bracelets would come under …
The Duchess Of Poker
Annie Duke was born and raised in Concord, New Hampshire. Her parents, both teachers, met at a card table, playing bridge and card playing is what created a huge bond in her family, so much so that her brother is the acclaimed poker player Howard Lederer. At the age of 18 Duke went to …
Doyle Brunson ~ Poker Legend
Doyle Brunson was born on August 10th, 1933 in Fisher County, Longworth, Texas and has been a professional poker player for over 50 years. Poker historians credit Brunson with bringing respectability to the game of poker and he is one of the greatest poker players to have ever lived – he is in fact …
Daniel Negreanu ~ Poker Legend
Born in 1974, Canadian Denial Negreanu is a young but highly successfully, Las Vegas based, poker player. In 1998, at 23, Negreanu rose to fame when he became the youngest world championship event winner in history and continued this success by becoming the US Poker Champion in 1999. One of the most highly skilled players …
Chris Ferguson ~ Poker Legend
One of the more easily recognisable professionals of the game, Chris ‘Jesus’ Ferguson is one of the best poker players around. Famous for his cowboy hat, long hair and beard, he has been on the poker circuit, in one way or another, for most of his life. Pinpointing the exact moment that Ferguson’s poker career began …
World Series Of Poker
The World Series of Poker or WSOP as it’s more frequently referred to began in 1970 in Las Vegas. Since then it has become the biggest poker event in the world, with the WSOP Main Event being the one event that every professional (and amateur) poker player dreams of winning. The first Series had just …