Poker Players

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.

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.

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.

The Kensington Close Hotel in London was the venue of the first British Poker Awards show, hosted by Michael Caselli and Antonio Esfandiari. Poker players, contributors, providers and forums were nominated by poker journalists in a total of eleven categories. The winners were awarded according to a public online voting as well as the decision of fellow poker pros and editors.

Michael Mizrachi, currently pro player at Full Tilt Poker, is being sued by his former sponsor, Deliverance Poker because of contract breach.

There is much speculation about the identity of the mysterious 'grolongo', a Swedish account playing Pot Limit Omaha and No Limit Holdem at PokerStars and becoming more and more popular in cash game action.

PokerStars is holding its annual WCOOP series, which is constantly being followed by most of the poker world, not to mention the amount of poker pros taking part in the series. The question is: why aren’t all the sponsored PokerStars Pros participating in the most important online event of the year?

The British Poker Awards is coming on Monday, 13th September, with the voting in the eight Reader’s Choice categories open for public since early August. The names of the hosts of the show have also been announced: poker celebrity Antonio Esfandiari and Michael Caselli.

Casino City has recently published an interesting article, listing the ten poker players, who, in their opinion, are featured too often on US TV shows.

The public voting for the 2010 Nominees of the Poker Hall of Fame has just ended, and the list containing the ten names did not bring real surprises. This year has been the second time that the nominees were chosen by a public voting procedure.

Have you ever though about what happens to the poker pros that give up playing poker? Well, some of them obviously start living average lives, or go broke and live worse-than-average ones. Others continue playing low-stakes poker under secret nicknames, or just find other activities to do.