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It seems that Dwyte Pilgrim is none less gifted in poker than his style and talk is original; he has just earned his first major event winning, the WPT Borgata. Largest in the World Poker Tour history with a field of 1,042, beating it is a proof for those regarding him a “minor league grinder” that he definitely stepped up the ladder.
We have reported about the bat invasion at Doyle Brunson's property which made the 77-year-old poker pro escape to his Montana home, where he has spent 3 weeks. These weeks have passed, and he's back in Las Vegas according to his Twitter.
Are you using WTSD (Went to Showdown) stats to get to know your opponents better? It's not a problem if you don't, since it is an unreliable system for describing a player. There are much better ways now to predict your opponent's actions, for example, calculating street-by-street fold stats.
PokerStars have finally dealt its 50 Billionth Hand. The great event happened yesterday morning at the $0,02/$0,05 Micro-Stakes NLHE cash game table called Ornamenta (fast). The hand was won by the German 'tbvle' earning $56,140 plus a $5,200 WCOOP Main Event buy-in.
Tom 'durrrr' Dwan usually plays high-stakes Pot Limit Omaha recently at Full Tilt tables, and while he is winning lots of money, he sometimes chats with his opponents, who are not exactly happy all the time with 'durrrr'. We are going to present 2 of such conversations.
Making an anticipated confirmation, betting company Betfair announced it was to float on the London Stock Exchange, valued at £1.5bn, EGamingReview.com reported. At least 10% of the shares are expected to be sold to enterprises willing to invest both in and out of the UK.
There were heated debates after Scott Montgomery's Facebook status update (“Getting ready to celebrate my gf’s birthday. hope she likes my gift!”) at the TwoPlustTwo forums. Users kept guessing who the mysterious girlfriend might be, or whether she's really a girl (many of the users thought Montgomery was openly gay). They investigated until it seemed most likely that he dates Annette Obrestad, pro poker player.
An extraordinary hand was dealt at FTP's $40/$80 NLHE 6-max table, where 'Sauce1234' and 'AAROOKIE' played a very interesting game that even Phil Galfond, experienced pro commented on his twitter as "One of the coolest HHs I've seen in a while".
We have found this brilliant video browsing the internet, and thought it is so funny we are sharing it with you. The donk meets TwoPlusTwo, and expresses his opinions about poker, Phil Ivey, isildur1 and Tom Dwan, and has some interesting questions as well.
Sega has closed down its online poker and casino sites. Both offerings have been launched this March and were powered by Playtech. On the site they offered 125 games including slots, blackjack, poker, and themed Sega games such as Virtua Fighter and House of the Dead.
It seems the players who did not participate in WSOPE for some reason are attending WPT Borgata Poker Open instead, which has reached the largest player pool ever in WPT history, a total of 1,042 players.
Lauren Kling is a phenomenon one hardly can pass by. She is a very young blonde beauty who is very talented and successful at poker. She had very good results throughout her career, but she still has a lot ahead of her.
The World Series of Poker rolls on, the second event has already came to its end, which was all about Pot Limit Omaha, in which Jeffrey Lisandro proved to be the best. We already wrote about Event #2, which was won by the 'Unabomber' Phil Laak, scoring his first WSOP victory.
Daniel Negreanu, being the informal and friendly person he is, is always in for a nice little chat with interviewers and reporters, he now gave a 50-minute long interview to PokerTube.