April 2010
Roland de Wolfe“I’m not sure readers will get the association,” says Roland de Wolfe, pointing at the enormous stuffed wolf we hired for his photo shoot. “Not that I know anything about journalism,” quips the former poker journalist.
March 2010
Nik Persaud meets… Phil GalfondPhil Galfond is the greatest poker theorist of his generation. To Nik Persaud he’s a personal hero: Phil’s strategy articles and training videos on BluefirePoker.com helped to reinvigorate Nik’s game when he felt he needed it most. Bluff took Nik to meet his saviour.
February 2010
World of ZiigmundFinland's second most famous poker player shares his thoughts on online poker, Isildur1, tattoos and the Durrrr Challenge...
The next big thing: Jeff Sarwer by Stephen BartleyThe poker forums begin to buzz; something about a chess prodigy with a strange childhood; one of foster homes and dramatic escapes into anonymity before he disappears, emerging 20 years later to make a revolutionary impression on the poker hierarchy. Stephen Bartley investigates...
January 2010
Phil Laak gets real…“I used to think I was just a character in a comic strip drawn by some guy in Utah. It’s not my choice – the guy who draws the comics makes the choices.”
December 2009
Joe Cada WSOP Champ: Not-so-average JoeWhat’s left to say about the 2009 WSOP final table? Ivey failed to pick up the momentum we were all praying for; Akenhead ran kings into aces and broke our hearts; Buchman imploded; Shulman folded himself out of contention; Saout ran out of luck, and Darvin Moon continued on his searing heater, his erratic plays adding a charging rhinoceros of unpredictability to the dynamics of play.
November 2009
Jesper HougaardAt last year’s WSOPE bet365’s Jesper Hougaard picked up a nice shiny bracelet. This year around, the poor lad can’t seem to win a race, so we talked poker politics instead, and it seems like there’s something very rotten in the state of Denmark…
Sami 'Lars Luzak' KelopuroEver delved through an old record collection and found a classic? I am talking Now 39: Billie Myers: 'Kiss the Rain', Lighthouse Family. Oh yes, that compact little double CD box had the lot. Well, rummaging around in the Bluff archives, we have managed to dig up an interview with Sami Kelopuro done just after this year's WSOP. Hardly ancient stuff but surely a classic in the making...
Barry Shulman: Confessions of a Card PlayerThere was a time when the very mention of his name would make us shudder, but these days, Bluff lives in harmony with Barry Shulman of Card Player Magazine.
October 2009
Yevgeniy Timoshenko: Man or machine?Having already won the WPT Grand Final earlier this year for $2.1 million, Yevgeniy Timoshenko only went and bloody took down the most prestigious online poker event (WCOOP Main Event) too for $1.7 million.