On the 28th of August 2007, the PokerStars software encountered a critical error, and crashed for a short period of time. This meant that the players connected to the software and sitting down at the tables were unable to play, and had to leave any hands or tournaments that they were involved in at the time. Read the rest of this entry »

If you try to log onto the Bogdog.com website, you will notice that there is no site to be observed on the screen. The Bodog website has had to migrate over to the new www.newbodog.com domain as the company is currently not able to use its standard www.bodog.com domain name. It is thought that the bodog.com domain has been stolen from underneath the company. Read the rest of this entry »

It is a common dream, to try and turn a small amount of money into a relatively large amount at the poker tables. Players may have a few big wins from time to time, doubling or tripling up at the cash tables, or have a lucky streak that lasts for a couple of days. But the question is; is it really possible to make a substantial amount like $10,000 from such a small starting bankroll? The answer is simply yes, and professional poker player Chris Ferguson has done it before. Read the rest of this entry »

In the game of Texas Holdem, the river can be a very tricky street to play. The river is different to other streets in Holdem, because players will no longer be drawing to any hands, as there will be no more cards to come. Therefore you are forced to make the best 5-card hand possible, and you must try and evaluate whether or not you have the best hand before making your action. Read the rest of this entry »

The 3D Poker room PKR celebrated its first birthday last Friday on the 17^th of August, as the room is already a year old. The PKR room has unsurprisingly soared up through the traffic rankings in its first year, as the room offers features that no other poker client can. Large numbers of players have been attracted to the new software to try it out and see what all the fuss is about. All this attention through word of mouth and advertising has helped to take the room into the top 20 of poker rooms when it comes to player traffic. Read the rest of this entry »

In the early hours of Wednesday morning, a number of pro poker players turned up at the Bali Hai Golf course for a game of high stakes Golf. A few famous names included Doyle Brunson, Phil Hellmuth and Daniel Negreanu, along with a handful of other well-known poker players. The players were separated into 3 teams of 3, as they battled it out on the course for $1,000,000 for each hole. Read the rest of this entry »

With so many poker rooms offering sign-up bonuses as incentives to all new players, a new breed of poker player has evolved; the bonus whore. These players will jump from room to room, picking up each deposit bonus and then moving onto the next immediately after they have been redeemed. This is becoming quite popular as time progresses and as more people become aware of this scheme, but how profitable can it be, and what do the poker rooms think of the bonus whores? Read the rest of this entry »

For any No Limit Texas Holdem player, it is important to be able to exercise good starting hand selection. Being able to sort between the bad hands and the good hands is key to becoming a winning poker player, which makes it a fundamental skill that all new poker players should try and learn. If you are unable to choose the correct hands that you should and shouldn’t be playing, you will find that you will be losing money through a very big leak in your game. Read the rest of this entry »

Yet again there was a slightly smaller than usual turnout for the Sunday million, but the stakes were still high as IG0tDibs scooped up the $188,176.68 first prize. There were a number of other big tournaments taking place that same weekend on rooms like Bodog and Full Tilt, which may explain the slightly lower than average attendance. However, a total of 6,543 entrants took their seats to try and win a piece of the eventual $1,308,600 prize pool. Read the rest of this entry »

The game of Texas Holdem is currently the most popular version of Poker in the world. It has even been given the title of ‘The Cadillac of Poker’ by Poker great Doyle Brunson. But the question is, why has Holdem become such a popular game instead of the other Poker variants like Omaha and Stud? This article aims to explain the game’s huge popularity in this modern era. Read the rest of this entry »

Despite the WSOP Main Event winner being crowned earlier this year as Jerry Yang in July, there is still a lot of WSOP action left to take place this year. The WSOPE (World Series Of Poker Europe) will be kicking off shortly, with the first event taking place on the 6th of September. This should prove to be one of the most popular tournaments hosted on European ground, and so a big crowd is expected to take part in and witness the action. Read the rest of this entry »

There are currently a large number of professional poker players with huge bankrolls taking seats at the online poker rooms and exchanging six-figure pots between one another on a regular basis. However, where should we be looking if we want to observe some of these high stakes games? This article will help to face you in the right direction to find some big poker names as well as some equally big pots. Read the rest of this entry »

One of the most innovative new card games Holdem Blackjack is still having trouble increasing its popularity amongst card players. The game, which cleverly combines the games of Holdem Poker and Blackjack, has had little success since its conception despite the fact it combines two of the most commonly played card games on the planet. Read the rest of this entry »

David Benyamine has been a regular at the highest stakes tables on Full Tilt and other big name rooms over the last few years. He has managed to play against the top pros at the highest level on a regular basis, and has continually had great winning sessions that earned him literally millions in winnings. However, over the last year things haven’t been going so well for him, as he encounters one losing session after another. Read the rest of this entry »

The majority of poker players will specialize in one form of poker. For most players that have entered the game over the last four or five years, this will probably be Texas Holdem. Texas Holdem has been greatly glamorised over recent years through the media, which has attracted high volumes of players to this one game in particular. However, there are a wealth of other poker variants out there that can be just as enjoyable. Read the rest of this entry »