February 2009
JC Tran: Strength in NumbersJC Tran has been steering an unstoppable hurricane across the green baize over the past year, picking up a WSOP bracelet and (finally) a WPT title in the process.
January 2009
The Italian Job - Pagano and MinieriVespa bikes, leather jackets and cool looks... Bluff Europe meets up with two Italians keen to take on the world. Ladies and gentlemen, let us introduce you to Dario and Luca.
December 2008
Peter Eastgate - WSOP ChampionOnly 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.
November 2008
Interview with 'pr1nnyraid', aka Jason Rosenkrantz.'pr1nnyraid' is a name that you might know for a multitude of reasons. Perhaps you know him as the author of Jason Rosenkrantz, founder and Executive Producer at DeucesCracked.com.
Interview: Wesley Whybrew - aka 'tEh_R3aLde4L'Wesley Whybrew isn’t a household name like Daniel Negreanu or Phil Hellmuth. He doesn’t play insanely high-stakes with Tom Dwan and Phil Ivey. However, with over $200,000 in online tournament winnings including a Sunday Million win and a successful live cash career, the 20-year-old poker professional from Michigan has made waves in the online tournament world.
John Juanda - Interview with the ChampionThe day after surviving a crucible of pain and the most brutal World Series final table in poker history, we find John Juanda relaxing in the tearoom of the Soho Hotel, sipping a restorative cocktail and looking his usual dapper, unflappable self.
October 2008
Interview: Jimmy Fricke - aka 'Gobboboy'.Tom Dwan, online sensation, has been described by the poker divinity that is Phil Ivey as being the man who might take No-Home Jerome’s mantle.
Marty Smyth: The Skill of the IrishMarty Smyth never really played a lot of poker tournaments; he always preferred to battle it out at the highest online cash games he could find, back in his bedroom in Belfast. Every year, however, he’d go on a beano to Dublin – just for a laugh – and would usually end up on the final table of the Irish Open. In 2007 he won the whole thing. Then on a trip to Vegas in summer, he in inadvertently became the Pot Limit Omaha World Champion and the only Irishman to collect a bracelet in 2008.
September 2008
Just how unlucky is Mike “The Mouth” Matusow?Is luck just “probability taken personally”, as someone once said, or can one be innately unfortunate? Cursed from birth, if you will. Mike Matusow could certainly argue (and he often does) that The Creator has singled him out for repeated catastrophic misfortune at the poker table, but just how unlucky is he? We decided to find out.
August 2008
The Year of Erick LindgrenAs I write this, the World Series of Poker is halfway completed. That is to say, more than half of the events are completed, but we’re less than halfway through the overall event, so we round off in the middle. It’s as good a time as any to take stock of what’s gone down and look at which storylines are shaping the memories we’ll have from the 2008 WSOP.