In January 2019, myself and my Chip Race co-host Dara O’Kearney interviewed a poker player and broadcaster whose popularity had transcended the game of poker. A former gymnast, paratrooper, little league coach, ballroom dancer, WSOP bracelet winner, WPT champion and Poker Hall of Famer, Mike Sexton was everything you might
March 2011: Bots Discovered on Pokerstars Before he was writing about the surveillance method of the NSA or breaches of trust by Facebook and other big tech companies, the Pulitzer-Prize winning journalist Gabriel Dance penned a New York Times article about bots invading the world of online poker. It was
The Freeze Out ‘If at first you don’t succeed, try, try again.’ Down the years, this well-known saying has become a tired cliché about the virtue of persistence. While apathy or idleness might, and I stress, might be ignoble traits, knowing when to quit is no bad thing. A lot
The Origin Of Late Registration I’m old enough to remember when there was no such thing as late registration. If you wanted to play a poker tournament, you had to show up at the beginning. Games rarely started on time, mostly because the organizer waited for the usual suspects to
Laptop Controversy after Tamayo Victory Last week, poker veteran Jonathan Tamayo won the WSOP Main Event for $10 million after a superb final table performance. The man who, just three days prior, had been mercilessly mocked for his nitty fold with pocket queens stood triumphant in the Horseshoe Casino, a
Social Contagion In 1958, Disney released a wildlife documentary ‘White Wilderness’ which depicted the adventures of a group of lemmings scuttling about in the Arctic snow. In the film’s most memorable scene, a large number of the lemmings, seemingly spurred on by social pressure to follow the leader, walk off
