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  • Barack Obama: A Tight Poker Player

    Enter the term “poker” in the Google News feed and you’re likely to turn up plenty of results involving politics. And in most cases, the term is badly misused. But the Economist recently gave applying poker to politics a shot and didn’t do such a bad job. Here’s a look at what they wrote regarding…

  • Dan Cates up $10.2m, Phil Ivey down $5.1m

    Oh what a difference a couple of years can make in high stakes online poker. Coming into the relaunched Full Tilt Poker, Phil Ivey was the game’s biggest winner with $19.2 million in online profits. However, he’s since taken a big tumble over the nearly-two years since Full Tilt reopened. Switching to the name “Polarizing,”…

  • See Daniel Negreanu’s Lavish House

    Ever wondered what nearly $30 million in poker tournament winnings and a sweet long-term deal with PokerStars will get you? Daniel Negreanu recently gave us a glimpse by offering up a tour of his futuristic Las Vegas home. As he says in the video below, Negreanu had a couple of friends renovate his place about…

  • PokerStars Angry over Political T-Shirts at EPT Barcelona High Roller

    The 2014 EPT Barcelona €50,000 Super High Roller tourney certainly wasn’t short on compelling storylines. First off, Olivier Busquet beat Dan Colman to win the €896,434 ($1,188,996) top prize. This is interesting because Busquet was one of Colman’s main backers as the latter went on to win the 2014 WSOP Big One for One Drop…

  • Mike Sexton tells Great Old-Man Poker Stories during Cash Game

    If there’s one thing that Mike Sexton can do besides play poker, it’s talk. He is, after all, a World Poker Tour announcer. And Sexton has recently been talking up a storm on a Party Poker-sponsored cash game at the Borgata. As you can see in the segments below, he tells some of his favorite…

  • Famed Poker Author Tony Korfman passes away at 71

    Poker pro and noted gambling author Tony Korfman recently passed away at age 71. As reported in this TwoPlusTwo post, Korfman fell and broke his hip a couple of weeks ago. He never recovered and passed away on August 18th, 2014. As a poker player, he made $355,320 in live tournaments and finished runner-up in…

  • Annette Obrestad relives “Blind” Online Tournament Win

    From winning the 2007 WSOP Europe Main Event as an 18-year-old to starting her poker career through freerolls, Annette Obrestad has become one of poker’s living legends. But if there’s one act that truly defines Obrestad’s career more than anything else, it’s when she won an online tournament without looking at her cards. The Norwegian…

  • Daniel Negreanu reveals why he chose PokerStars over FTP, UB and Party

    It seems like Daniel Negreanu has been the face of PokerStars forever. So it’s hard to remember him representing a different online poker site at any point in time. However, going back to 2004, Kid Poker was actually involved in his own poker room called FullContactPoker. Some players today may recognize this site because it’s…

  • Dan Colman’s Dark Message about Poker inspires Author

    A month ago, the poker world collectively rolled their eyes when Dan Colman won the 2014 WSOP Big One for One Drop, then refused to do interviews. His reasoning became clear afterward: poker is a “dark game” where pros prey upon weaker players. Colman certainly didn’t have any trouble collecting the $15.3 million check for…

  • China’s Poker Princess Guo Meimei busted

    By now, many people have heard about the wild story of Molly Bloom (a.k.a. the Poker Princess), who organized high stakes poker games in Los Angeles and New York. Some of those who attended Bloom’s games include Ben Affleck, Leonardo DiCaprio, Matt Damon, Alex Rodriguez and Tobey Maguire. You can read all about the story…