01 October 2008
Marty 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.
01 September 2008
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.
01 August 2008
As 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.
01 July 2008
“Can you believe they had Doyle Brunson on the front cover last month, and this month it’s… me?” marvels Nik Persaud over drinks-on-the-job in Shoreditch. “My mum will be thrilled!”
01 June 2008
Just a few months shy of his 75th birthday, Doyle Brunson has seen it all in the poker world. His résumé you already know: ten World Series of Poker bracelets, a World Poker Tour title, $5.3 million in career tournament earnings and author of arguably the most important poker strategy book ever written, Super System. He’s also beaten the highest stakes games the poker world ever known, including being a part of the now-famous Andy Beal heads-up matches.
01 June 2008
Armed with just a single Post-it note and a Jedi-like prescience, Annette_15 famously won a $4, 180-player tournament without looking at her cards. Playing cheap tournaments blind can be a great way of honing your instincts and situational awareness. Here’s some invaluable advice from Norway’s foremost diminutive poker diva.