December 2008

  • December 2008
  • Cover Story: Peter Eastgate – All hail our new champion!
    Gift Guide – Christmas shopping for degenerates
    Simply the Worst – Why Bond sucks at poker
    EPT – Bartley is our man in Budapest
    The Bluff Europe Casino Compendium – All you need to know about games that aren’t poker
    Thrills
    The Beat – With Neil “Bad Beat” Channing
    Newswire – Rolling poker news from around the globe
    Our Kelly – Derek Kelly on the Irish poker scene
    Wicked Chops – Irreverent poker backchat
    J Tilly – Jennifer says her sad goodbyes
    PRO-spective
    Grassroots – Supporting poker in the community
    The IPO – BoylePoker.com go wild in Dublin
    On the Road – Dr Pault leaves London
    Stu Ungar – What if the troubled champ had lived?
    Virtual Felt
    Mike Caro – More musings from a Mad Genius
    Bonomo – Varying your play
    Being Phil Laak – An American Unabomber in London
    Poker Infirmary – Is your poker game sick?
    Rizen – The dangers of outthinking yourself
    WSOP Academy – Greg Raymer on ICM
    Lee Jones – Learning from bad players
    Action Jackson – Paul makes a hero call
    The Amateur’s Mind – Amateur philosophy from Michael Rome
    Dr Poker – Harnessing your poker energy
    Tommy Angelo – Playing junk
    Navarro – Tells of the tongue
    Full Tilt Tips – With Steve Zolotow
    One Hand at a Time – Excerpt from new book by Rizen, PearlJammer and Apestyles
    Tales from the Felt – Slutsky on the perils of pro poker

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I haven’t played a whole lot of live poker recently and so it was nice to get to the relatively local Broadway Casino in Five Ways, Birmingham, for their festival. Unfortunately, due to other significant competitions taking place in Dublin and Teeside, the turnouts were not as high as usual but then that made it easier for me to get a decent result and I’m not greedy.

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Dear Dr Tom,

I consider myself a solid tournament player, but I realise I still have a lot to learn – I’m a small winner playing $5 and $10 sit-n-gos. I recently satellited into a major Sunday tournament, worth $215. Now, I suspect I will be torn apart in this tournament – it has a large field and is filled to the brim with online pros.

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Only moments after he'd disposed of Ivan Demidov and collected a nice little bracelet and a few million dollars, Bluff Europe interrupted the 2008 WSOP Champion to ask if he'd spent it all yet.