2010 World Series of Poker Main Event in full effect!

Category : Poker News, Texas Holdem Poker, WSOP, World series of Poker, poker, tournament results

Event #57 No-Limit Hold’em 2010 WSOP Championship of the World kicked off with day 1a of 4 starting days. Michael Mizrachi is 5th in chips after Maria Ho in 4th. Michael Mizrachi won the Players Championship and is looking to add a main event to his spectacular performance this year. [...]

Frank Kassela leads No-Limit Hold’em Six Handed

Category : Poker News, Texas Holdem Poker, WSOP, poker, tournament results

Frank Kassela could be a triple bracelet winner if he takes this down. He just overtook Daniel Negreanu for the lead. He already won Event #40: Seven Card Razz and Event #15: Seven Card Stud Hi-Low Split-8 or Better World Championship. Frank Kassela is a fierce Pot Limit Omaha player and is [...]

My picks for 2010 World Series of Poker

Category : Horse, Online Poker, Pot Limit Omaha, Texas Holdem Poker, poker, poker blog, tournament results

We posted our picks for women to look out for in the 2010 WSOP and one of our writers picks for the 50k 8 game. Now it’s time for the Pokerbloggs.com editor’s picks for the whole 2010 World Series of Poker. I’m going to break the picks up into different events, [...]

Rush Tournament Strategy

Category : Online Poker, Texas Holdem Poker, poker

Rush Tournament Strategy Full Tilt Poker has taken their revolutionary Rush Poker to the next level with Rush Poker tournaments. The new tournament format kicked off on Friday with several events on the site. Full Tilt also announced that three upcoming FTOPS events will be Rush Poker tournaments. Of course, many of you [...]

Rush Poker Tournaments

Category : Online Poker, Texas Holdem Poker, poker

Full Tilt Poker has just released Rush Poker Tournaments to compliment the Rush cash games. This is really good news for players who are tournament specialist, who haven’t been able to get the Rush experience. Now it’s on! Full Tilt players can get the volume of hands needed to grow experience [...]

Rush Poker Review

Category : Poker News, Texas Holdem Poker, poker

Full Tilt Poker has just released Rush Poker. Rush Poker is soon to be the hottest new game to enter the online poker market. This new game is just a twist on the original Texas Holdem Poker game. This new game is a rushed or speedy version of Texas Holdem that allows [...]

Geographical Profiling for poker player tendencies

Category : Poker News, Texas Holdem Poker, poker

I recently went back to playing tournaments and cash games at Full Tilt Poker. Since I started again, I see a strong international presence at the tables. After about 10k hands, I started to see identical betting patterns by players from the same country. I hate to generalize, but I [...]

Chris “Jesus” Ferguson is our featured player

Category : Online Poker, Texas Holdem Poker, poker

Chris “Jesus” Ferguson is one of the most recognizable figures in live poker. With his long hair and goatee, he earned his nickname due to the fact he looks like the stereotypical portrait of Jesus Christ. To many, Ferguson looks like someone trying to give off some type of gimmick image, but in [...]

Boumaaza Bachir aka Chiren80 aka Athene

Category : Challenges, Gossip, Poker News, Texas Holdem Poker, poker

PokerStars.com recently announced their “online team.” Over 2,000 players turned in an application to join the team that is a complimentary team to the Team PokerStars Pro team. One of those players is Chiren80, also known as Boumaaza Bachir. Many of you likely do not know the screen name Chiren80, but if [...]

Syyyke_mann wins Mini FTOPS

Category : Poker News, Texas Holdem Poker, poker, tournament results

Horiamv entered the final table with the chip lead. Most of the rest of the field was relatively close, all with between 10 and 15 Million. Ligra80 entered as the short stack with just 3.2 Million. These were the chip counts at the start of final table play: 23dontreraiseme 11,376,799 espiderman [...]