Poker Interviews

Poker Interviews

Backer of Two WSOP Finalists: Why Buying Pieces Can Be the Smartest Move in Poker

June 24, 2025 at 2:06 PM |

Derek Wolters, backer of two WSOP finalists, shares key advice on staking, variance, and buying profitable shares at the 2025 World Series of Poker.

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Tom Dwan Interview: Inside His Experience at a London Psychiatric Facility

May 30, 2025 at 9:13 AM |

Tom Dwan gives first full interview to Abril Zucchi after UK mental health incident—talks PokerNews controversy, coercion, and legal action.

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From Command & Conquer to High Stakes - Exclusive Daniel 'jungleman12' Cates Interview

April 15, 2014 at 2:25 PM |

Daniel 'jungleman12' Cates, one of today's best high stakes cash game player recently visited the Hungarian capital Budapest, this is where he gave an exclusive interview to Rakerace.com.

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Gus Hansen and the $3,000/Point OFC Games - Video Interview

July 11, 2013 at 8:20 PM |

As we wrote yesterday, Gus Hansen and Tom 'durrrr' Dwan have skipped Day 1 of the Main Event just to be able to participate in some high stakes Open Face Chinese Poker action. Gus Hansen now gave an interview to QuadJacks about OFC and his participation at the Main Event.

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US High Stakes Pros in Hungary - Video Interview

October 9, 2012 at 7:37 PM |

Rakerace.com presents an exclusive video interview with five high stakes pros from the US, nowliving in Hungary: Reese Newell, Michael Leow, Michael Song, Kurt Fruchtman and recent WCOOPchampion Michael ‘mrw8419’ Weisbrod.

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A Low Stakes Icon – Interview with Jrockhaf

March 21, 2012 at 2:25 PM |

Below you can read our team’s original interview with Canadian poker pro "jrockhaf"

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Millions on a Frozen Account and Other Issues – Interview with Jungleman12 – Part 2

November 17, 2011 at 2:32 PM |

Daniel ‘jungleman12’ Cates has participated in a poker seminar in Vienna recently, where he gave an exclusive interview to poker journalist Marius Gartner. Full Tilt Poker, the ‘Girah’ scandal, a feared opponent in the upcoming live challenge and his near future.

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Millions on a Frozen Account and Other Issues – Interview with Jungleman12 – Part 1

November 11, 2011 at 4:34 PM |

Daniel ‘jungleman12’ Cates has participated in a poker seminar in Vienna recently, where he gave an exclusive interview to poker journalist Marius Gartner. The beginnings, Angry Birds, Durrrr Challenge and the latest issues.

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Barry Greenstein Video Interview

September 15, 2011 at 4:33 PM |

Barry Greenstein speaks to PokerTube about the WCOOP, the upcoming tournaments in Europe, the Badugi and more.

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Ongame MD Martin Lerby Answers about the Future of Online Poker

September 1, 2011 at 2:15 PM |

Martin Lerby, chief of Ongame Network speaks about the effects of Black Friday and shares his thoughts on the future of online poker. An InsidePokerBusiness interview.

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The Quadjacks Grand Interview Summarized

August 3, 2011 at 10:20 PM |

The 9-hour-long Friday Night Podcast of Quadjacks saw Daniel Negreanu, Matt Savage, Mike Matusow and, for a short time, Tony G talk about the current issues in poker.

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Daniel 'Jungleman12' Cates Interview at the PCA

April 3, 2011 at 12:50 PM |

We just found this interview made with Daniel Cates, and thought you would be interested. The 21 year old American pro talks about his recent accomplishments at the PCA, his future plans getting involved in the live games, and much more. Enjoy, and have a nice weekend!

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Jose 'Girah' Macedo Interview by PokerStatic

March 24, 2011 at 9:14 AM |

There's a new gun in town. The portuguese wonder kid, Jose Macedo, who turned €30 into millions has now stepped out of the darkness and talked to Bret Oliverio and Eric Bickel about his carreer on PokerStatic.com.

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Randy 'Nanonoko' Lew Documentary - The Hardest Working Player in Online Poker

March 10, 2011 at 10:50 AM |

In this very interesting documentary with Randy 'nanonoko' Lew, one of the best online players today, he talks about  about how he started playing poker, how his video gaming helped him one of the top pros, and about his work ethic. It's quite an interesting piece, highly recommended.

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Patrik Antonius on the Macau Cash Games

March 4, 2011 at 10:21 AM |

In this video made by Chris Porter, ESPN reporter interviewing Patrik Antonius the Finnish pro talks about his experiences with the Macau cash games and the gigantic stakes that are present at the table.

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Daniel 'djk123' Kelly PokerStatic Interview

February 25, 2011 at 9:57 AM |

One of the biggest online MTT players, Daniel 'djk123' Kelly earned nearly $6 million throughout and is one of the Brunson 10, Doyle Brunson's elite team. In this interview made by PokerStatic, he talks about how he began playing poker and how he could evolve, and become one of the best.

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Gary Wise Interview - Elky, Feldman and Bernard Lee at the Table

February 17, 2011 at 1:27 PM |

After some technical problems, Gary Wise was able to upload his most recent interview with Bertrand Grospellier, Andrew Feldman and Bernard Lee, whom he talked to back in January at the PokerStars Caribbean Adventure. The interview is made for PokerStatic, Phil Galfond's website, but you can now watch it right here, on Rakerace.com.

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Daniel Negreanu Talks to Gary Wise

January 24, 2011 at 4:50 PM |

The once Magic The Gathering champion (collectible card game), now poker pro Gary Wise made this interview for PokerStatic with the PokerStars pro Daniel Negreanu.

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The Dang Brothers: A Video Interview

January 18, 2011 at 2:34 PM |

PokerStatic has recently made a video interview with the Dang brothers, Di and Hac, also known as Urindanger and trex313, respectively. While the former plays PLO with Gus Hansen, they evaluate their poker year of 2010.

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4 Days With Phil Ivey - An Old Documentary

January 7, 2011 at 5:57 PM |

Phil Ivey doesn't need any introduction, he's considered the best poker player in the world right now. And we don't say this, everybody does. Even the best players in the world. In this episode of ESPN's E60 show they followed the Full Tilt pro for 4 days, interviewing him on his way. Very interesting, if you haven't seen it already, a must watch.

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50-Minute Video Interview With DrGiggy

December 28, 2010 at 3:16 PM |

In the following video, PokerStatic's interviewers Eric Bickel and Bret Oliverio talk to the Canadian NLHE cash game pro, Martin 'DrgGiggy' Giguere, who, as it turned out, got 5% of Jonathan Duhamel's WSOP winnings.

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ESPN Inside Deal - Jonathan Duhamel Interview

November 24, 2010 at 3:11 PM |

Jonathan Duhamel hasn't given too many interviews since he became a WSOP Main Event champion. Now he joined Laura Lane and Andrew Feldman in ESPN's Inside Deal. He talks about how he felt when he won the final table, what his plans are with the near $9 million prize, and much more. Enjoy!

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Lauren Kling - A Proper Interview

September 28, 2010 at 11:45 AM |

Last time we have shown you a short video of Lauren Kling's 5-minute break between two rounds at some online multi-table tournament. Now here is another interview, a little bit longer than the last one, and now she talks about herself in much more detail giving you a chance to get to know her better.

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Lauren Kling's 5 Minute Break

September 20, 2010 at 6:43 PM |

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.

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Durrrr Interview at PartyPoker World Open

September 8, 2010 at 2:31 PM |

Tom 'durrrr' Dwan seems to have bad luck at the PartyPoker World Open. He gave this interview to Tatjana, PartyPoker's reporter yesterday after he got busted. He talks about the Durrrr Challange in general explaining what it is all about to those who have never heard about it. He also talks about his reasons of playing poker, and his biggest opponent at the moment, jungleman12.

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Jungleman12 Video Interview – From the Beginnings to the Durrrr Challenge

September 8, 2010 at 2:28 PM |

In this 39 minute long interview made by PokerStatic Daniel ’jungleman12’ Cates talks about the beginnings of his career, the ongoing durrrr challenge and his life as a poker player.

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Teenagers with Poker as a Profession

September 7, 2010 at 3:21 PM |

Poker is the no.1 option as a job for more and more students in the United States. Not being old enough to enter a casino, online poker is the choice of many-many people between 18-21.

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Video Interview with Neil Channing on Staking

September 7, 2010 at 2:16 PM |

Neil Andrew Channing is an English poker pro living in London. Being the champion of the 2008 Irish Poker Open, Neil has become a widely recognized player in the past five years.

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Fatima Moreira de Melo Interview at EPT Vilamoura

September 2, 2010 at 4:58 PM |

The EPT Vilamoura is approaching its end, the final table is currently being played. The event has been really exciting so far, and what is the most interesting in the tournament that many famous athletes participate this year.

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Ivey Says He'll Win The WPT

September 1, 2010 at 3:07 PM |

Phil Ivey doesn't give interviews very often, so it is a rare moment which Tatjana Pasalic caught at the WPT, London. Ivey talks about his feelings about the WPT and he feels confident that he can win it this year.  He also talks about the reputation of poker worldwide, when asked whether poker's popularity is about to drop or not.