Category: Online Poker

  • Tatiana “Mysters_Y” Barausova becomes Newest PokerStars Pro

    Because she doesn’t play on the live circuit, Tatiana “Mysters_Y” Barausova isn’t exactly the world’s best known poker player. However, she figures to get a lot more attention after signing a deal with PokerStars Team Online. She’ll join other internet standouts such as Randy “nanonoko” Lew and Isaac “Ike Haxton” Haxton on this team. Barausova…

  • Why Poker Freerolls can be more Frustrating than Real Money Play

    A lot of online poker players initially get their start by playing freerolls. After all, if you’re leery about putting money on the line, open-entry freerolls (no entry requirements) are a great way to build a bankroll from scratch. But there’s also a big downside to starting out with open-entry freerolls. In fact, they can…

  • Legal US Online Poker may not happen for Years

    For the past few years, US residents have held out hope that their government would eventually regulate and legalize online poker on a federal level. Unfortunately, this isn’t going to happen in 2012 – and it may not happen for years to come either. Senators Harry Reid and Jon Kyl were hoping that Congress would…

  • Phil Ivey returns to Full Tilt Poker under New Name

    Following a long hiatus from the poker world, which coincided with Full Tilt Poker shutting down, Phil Ivey has been getting more and more involved in the game lately. First off, he returned to the 2012 WSOP and won five gold bracelets. Then he started a poker training website called IveyPoker. Now it appears as…

  • Russia cracking down on Online Poker

    Like many other countries throughout the world, Russia had never officially cracked down on online poker and made the activity illegal. However, all of this has changed recently with the Russian Supreme Court putting more responsibility on ISP’s to block poker sites. In the past, ISP’s merely had to block the 1,500 sites that were…

  • Theo Jorgensen is Latest Robbery in Poker Community

    One topic that we’ve discussed a few times in the past is how more and more poker players seem to be getting robbed these days. And the trend culminated last year with the grisly beating/robbery of 2010 WSOP Main Event champion Jonathan Duhamel. Unfortunately, we witnessed another robbery that was just as grisly as Duhamel’s…

  • Gus Hansen – Still an Online Poker Loser

    From 2009 to 2010, Gus Hansen became this lovable sort of online poker loser that just couldn’t stop spewing millions. It got so bad at one point that many people questioned his decision to keep battering his bankroll and reputation against the top online players. After hitting rock bottom in August of 2010 – when…

  • Moving up Cash Game Stakes

    The ultimate goal of online poker is to keep moving up stakes so that you can earn more profits in a shorter amount of time. Of course, this is easier said than done because as you move up in cash game limits, the competition gets collectively tougher. So if you’re going to do this successfully,…

  • Liv Boeree and her Silly Mobile Poker Shoot

    Liv Boeree is no doubt a very smart girl since she graduated from the University of Manchester with a degree in Astrophysics. So even she should know that a person can’t play mobile poker very well when they’re climbing a rock wall. However, a recent photo shoot she did for PokerStars mobile suggests otherwise. Expanding…

  • Barcode – The Mysterious Online Poker Phenom

    When it comes to high stakes online poker, we’re used to seeing names like Phil Galfond and Viktor Blom dominating the news. However, a new and mysterious player named “Barcode” (a.k.a. 1Il|1Il|1il|) has been experiencing most of the success lately. Getting into the specifics, this player is fresh off of a week where he made…