There have always been a couple of good Russian poker players on the circuit. But now there seems to be quite few more Russian players that are finishing at the top of the leader boards. 15 Russians have cashed thus far at the WSOP, thats not bad at all!!
So far at the WSOP Vitaly Lunkin [...]
Phew.. how do you live with these huge swings in poker fortunes that the poker pros go through? I was reading that Tom Dwan was over US$ 4 million down year-to-date. No matter who you are, that has to hurt. But now it seems that he has had a bit of luck and managed to [...]
One thing about playing sport is that it teaches you from a young age how to win and also, more importantly… how to accept defeat. Nobody likes a poor loser that behaves badly as soon as they lose. There are certain things that you do at the poker table and certain things that you don’t.
Learning [...]
We are bombarded by so much advertising these days, noise being broadcast to us all the time, that it is no wonder people have had to apply filters and block out all the unnecessary noise. Poker sites can be the same, there is so much clutter that you dont know where to look for poker [...]
Yesterday I seemed to be playing holdem poker in a room full of poker twits!!! Its so hard to play against people that don’t stick to the normal poker rules or conventions… so I of course lasted half an hour and then I threw my cards in and went on Tilt big time… got out [...]