Andy Bloch is no cowboy, not really. He does have a predilection for wearing a cowboy hat when he plays poker, however, and this was likely the reason he was chosen to participate in Poker After Dark during Cowboy Week.
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The WPT gave us some real excitement during the Season VI Championship. Whether it was Gus Hansen eliminating player after player on unlikely, game changing river cards, or David Chiu wiping up Hansen’s massive chip lead when they were heads up, then sending the Dane to the showers by delivering a bad beat of his […]

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A player can lose a big pot in a hand of poker and not have to bother with figuring out what they did wrong. There is a recent story from a Vegas casino. During the game of Holdem, seven players saw the flop, five saw the turn, and three remained in the hand long enough […]

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During the WPT Championship, Gus had personally eliminated Cory Carroll, John Roveto, Jeff King, and Tommy Le. This left only David Chiu standing between Hansen and the WPT season crown. Had things gone as planned, it would have been his fourth WPT bracelet. Things were looking good at first: his chip lead over Chiu was […]

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It looked like it was going to be Gus Hansen’s game, and his fourth World Poker Tour title - but it wasn’t to be so. World Series of Poker bracelet holder David Chiu, starting out as a big underdog on chips in heads up play, came back to take the win from the Great Dane. […]

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A very busy summer for poker in Las Vegas, both at the World Series of Poker and elsewhere, has become even busier with Caesars Palace’s creation of its new Mega Stack Series. The series increases competition for the deep stack…
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The current and only World Series of Poker Europe champion Annette Obrestad will be playing poker with a price on her head. Online poker room, and Obrestad’s online home for poker, Betfair Poker is hosting a special freeroll tournament that has bounties on both Annette and online poker champ Sorel Mizzi, better known as Imper1um. […]

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Austrian Erich Kollmann made short work of his remaining opponents, taking down the PokerNews Cup Austria Main Event in just over four hours of final-table play. Kollmann started the day with a significant chip lead over his nearest…
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Over 700 people got on their motorbikes and raced down the road to raise money for charity in the third annual Georgia Sheriff’s Boys Ranch Poker Run. A poker run involved cars, motorcycles, and a good time, which is what was going on as participants followed a route and collected poker cards at various stops, […]

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There was quite a poker ceremony held at the Bellagio last Monday, April 21st, in the Vegas showroom that hosts the "O" show six nights each week. The occasion was special, as it honored all the World Poker Tour’s individual…
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