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Teddy Sheringham swaps goals for chips in Portugal

Matthew Pitt / 01 September 2010 / Leave a comment

Teddy Sheringham is better known for scoring goals than he is stacking poker chips but that could soon change as he finds himself down to final 24 players of the EPT Vilamoura Main Event.... Read more »

Dwan getting owned by jungleman12

Matthew Pitt / 31 August 2010 / Leave a comment

When Tom "durrrr" Dwan announced that he would play anyone, except his good friend Phil "OMGCLAYAIKEN" Galfond at heads-up Pot-limit Omaha or No-limit Hold'em and beat them, offering them three-to-one odds on doing so, the online poker world was tingling... Read more »

Betfair Heroes!

Matthew Pitt / 31 August 2010 / Leave a comment

Betfair Poker changed forever on Tuesday 27 July when it made the switch to the superb software now dubbed Betfair Poker 2 but one thing that stayed the same was the excellent standard of some of the regulars players we... Read more »

WSOPE Event 3 Qualifier - August 29

Matthew Pitt / 30 August 2010 / Leave a comment

Event 3 of the 2010 World Series of Poker Europe, the £1,075 No-Limit Hold'em event, is only 18 days away and two more players have won the chance to take JP Kelly's crown after finishing in the top two of... Read more »

Who Gets Your Vote for the Poker Hall of Fame?

Short-Stacked Shamus / 27 August 2010 / Leave a comment

Matthew Pitt reported earlier in the week regarding the 2010 Poker Hall of Fame. By visiting the World Series of Poker website, one can still submit nominations for this year's class until next Tuesday, August 31. Once the nomination process... Read more »

Betfair Poker Live! Prague, October 20-24

Dave Allan / 26 August 2010 / Leave a comment

Betfair proudly announced Betfair Poker Live! Prague. The seventh poker festival of the popular series will run October 20-24 in Card Casino Prague. The seventh leg of Betfair Poker Live! includes several No Limit Hold Em tournaments, ranging from €50... Read more »

South Africa bans online poker

Matthew Pitt / 26 August 2010 / Leave a comment

First we had the United States of America trying to ban online gambling with the passing of the UIGEA, then we had a number of European countries such as France and Italy making it difficult for gambling sites to operate... Read more »

2010 Poker Hall of Fame

Matthew Pitt / 23 August 2010 / Leave a comment

Regardless of your chosen field, being recognised by your peers is one of the greatest achievements and accolades a person can have bestowed upon them. Football has the PFA awards, English sportsmen and women have the BBC Sports Personality of... Read more »

The Betfair Poker Interview: Paul "Dr. Pauly" McGuire

Short-Stacked Shamus / 20 August 2010 / Leave a comment

A couple of weeks back I shared a review of Paul "Dr. Pauly" McGuire's new book Lost Vegas: The Redneck Riviera, Existentialist Conversations with Strippers, and the World Series of Poker. The book chronicles McGuire's experiences as a poker tournament... Read more »

Tony G borrows $100k from Negreanu!

Matthew Pitt / 19 August 2010 / Leave a comment

Antanas Guoga, or Tony G as he is better known, recently had to borrow $100,000 from Daniel Negreanu after going bust on the PokerSTars sponsored US television show "The Big Game."... Read more »

Phil Ivey: the anti-Hansen

Matthew Pitt / 18 August 2010 / Leave a comment

Whilst Gus Hansen is busy trying to prove that he is the worst online poker player of all time by losing over $7,700,000 over the past three years, Phil Ivey is doing the complete opposite and is well on his... Read more »

Kevin Santi wins inaugural EPT Tallin

Matthew Pitt / 17 August 2010 / Leave a comment

The first-ever European Poker Tour event to take place in Estonia was also the largest-ever poker tournament to take place there, attracting 420 entrants. After five days of first class poker it was Kevin Santi who was the last man... Read more »

Is Gus Hansen a cash game fish?

Matthew Pitt / 16 August 2010 / Leave a comment

There is a slight tongue-in-cheek slate of tournament players saying they are not actually good poker players and that they are complete fishes in cash games, where the real poker is played. There are plenty of exceptions to this rule,... Read more »

Cash for Grades?

Short-Stacked Shamus / 13 August 2010 / Leave a comment

A few days ago I was watching a documentary about a musical group, and in the film each member of the band recounted how he'd first gotten involved in music. One explained how as a youngster he coveted his own... Read more »

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