Mike Matusow Free Poker Training Video Available
March 31, 2008
Mike "The Mouth" Matusow is the host of this week's free poker training clip from Card Player Pro (powered by PokerSavvy Plus). In the video, Matusow walks viewers through his play at a $100-$200 H.O.R.S.E. cash game on Full Tilt. Click here to view this video or any of the other…
Foxwoods Poker Classic Continues with Big Numbers
March 31, 2008
The Foxwoods Poker Classic continues with its preliminary events, which lead up to the World Poker Tour $10,000 championship event, which will start Friday. The series started last Monday, and the preliminary events have been attracting large numbers of entrants to the WPT-themed poker room of…
Online Poker: UH Big Tex Wins Sunday Million
March 31, 2008
PokerStars Sunday Million The quarterly $1,000 buy-in version of the PokerStars Sunday Million was held last night, and it boasted the largest ever field and prize pool for the event. The tournament attracted 1,869 entrants, up from the 1,802 entrants the $1,000 buy-in version had on Dec. 30,…
Poker Staking Site Snatched Up by Part Time Poker
March 31, 2008
Online poker website Part Time Poker announced recently the acquisition of a poker staking site called NeverBeg. The acquisition was staged in order to provide an additional service to the users of the Part Time Poker site. The additional traffic boost from Never Beg’s regular customers was also a factor: those users will now find the same services under a new name, Part Time Poker Staking, which boasts 15,000 members…
Poker After Dark is Great Dane vs Dames
March 31, 2008
Each week that NBC airs its poker show Poker After Dark it has a theme, such as Hecklers Week or Champions Week. In an upcoming week PAD will feature the poker player once on the People Magazine’s Most Sexy list and a table full of women. Gus “The Great Dane” Hansen will be playing with Vanessa Rousso, Beth Shak, Clonie Gowen, J.J…
College Kids Use Poker to Pay for Tuition
March 31, 2008
College is a time of life when many kids learn about juggling a work/life balance with academics in order to pay for their tuition, which at some universities can easily range into the mid to upper five figure ranges. Some college students are turning to online poker in order to help pay the bills, and some experts see this as a growing trend. While loans are common when it comes to acquiring college money, these experts, like Rep…
Company Advertises Ease for Poker Players’ Woes
March 30, 2008
Poker players looking for a way to put money into their poker accounts can now use a company called Poker eChecks, according to the company’s recent press release. According to the company notice, eChecks work as fast as credit card deposits, and are as relable and secure as regular paper checks. Players use a regular bank account, from which the funds are drawn for the eCheck electronically, and then deposited in the poker room account…
WPT Event Won by Lee Markholt
March 30, 2008
A final table that sported players like Phil Ivey, Michael Mizrachi and David Pham could be one of the toughest poker tournamets around, and that was just what Lee Markholt faced when he played in the World Poker Challenge, a World Poker Tour event. Lee managed not only to avoid elimination by this tough table of pros, but went on to win the whole event. He beat out 260 players to win, and managed a first place cash prize of $493,000…
Poker Pro Reportedly Put in Prostitution Ring
March 30, 2008
A well known high stakes pro poker player has his name on a list of clients run by Kristin Davis, according to various reports. Davis is the high profile madam linked to the former New York Governor Eliot Spitzer. Allegedly Davis ran more than one prostitution ring, and is facing charges on prostitution and money laundering…
Online Poker: Interview with Chetna 'Rex55' Joshi — Part I
March 30, 2008
Chetna "Rex55" Joshi is big on respect. She knows that, because of the nature of the largely male-dominated poker world, she has to earn any respect that she seeks. The good news for her is that she is incredibly talented and insightful, two things that tend to give one a leg-up in…
