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
One of the most exciting aspects of playing live poker for a living is the opportunity to travel to different destinations around the world. Whether it be as a tournament grinder making a journey to the next circuit stop or as a cash game player seeking the best action, traveling
Oof. It’s been quite a few days in poker – interesting, enlightening, often disappointing but a little encouraging, too. You’ll not be shocked to know that the topic at hand is women in poker. And this evolving situation has ruffled the feathers of a lot of people in the poker
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
With the PokerStars EPT Barcelona series that just wrapped up in Spain, the European Poker Tour celebrated its 20th anniversary in style. Where It Started The first EPT ever was in Barcelona was in 2004, which kicked off the inaugural season of the live poker tour. Longtime poker player John
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
One major advantage of playing online poker for real money is the ability to multi-table. Multi-tabling allows players to play various games of poker at once, something that is almost impossible in live poker rooms. In 2009, Bertrand "ElkY" Grospellier set a world record by playing 62 $6.50 Sit 'N
Whether you like to dabble at the blackjack and poker tables or hit a spin or two at the slot machines, it’s safe to say that gambling is one of America’s more popular pastimes, at least in the states where casinos can set down roots. Naturally, though, while gambling is
During the early stages of a tournament, our decisions are based on a system of risks and rewards that value winning and losing chips completely symmetrically. Just like in a cash game where every chip has direct monetary value, winning 1 chip is ”good” in the same way as losing
Poker is a game played in the moment. The goal at the table is to make the best possible decision at every juncture - this is well known. However, there are many ‘away from the table’ factors that impact our ability to do so. The priorities we set and habits
With poker’s overall growth, new players are continuously entering the poker space. They are creating online poker accounts to practice their play in micro-stakes and small stakes games. They are walking into poker rooms for the first time. And they are buying into tournaments for that unique experience. The rules
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
