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The World Series of Poker is one of the biggest tournaments in the world. It is abbreviated as WSOP and it was officially organized in the year 1970. The WSOP bracelet plus the millions of dollars of cash prize attracts many eagle-eyed poker players from around the world. The World Series of Poker is the summit point of interest for any poker player. A mere participation in this event seems to attract pride. Thousands of players compete in the ... Read More

How would you like five easy to follow tips that will immediately improve your poker game? Yes, that's right, these five easy to learn tips will have you winning more hands more often. Just read on... Poker Tip #1 Maximize your winnings and minimize your losses. Simply put, bet on the hands that you have a good chance of winning and fold the bad hands. In Limit play you must play solid hands. If you are being dealt bad hands ... Read More

HORSE poker didn’t really gain that much recognition in the early years of poker. Poker professionals tried to mix in a number of games to add more fun and challenge. However, the HORSE game suddenly became a hit among poker players when it was introduced in the 2006 WSOP in event #20. Getting in the game was pretty expensive: $50,000 for a buy in. That’s why only serious players joined in the game and showed their prowess in their overall ability and ... Read More

The World Series of Poker first started in 1970 at Binion's Casino in Las Vegas and today is considered the most prestige's poker tournament held any where in the world. In the last few years the field of players has been enormous in number and the prize money has been several million dollars to the winner of the tournament. They have been showing the poker tournaments on TV and the camera view of what each player is holding has helped to ... Read More

Just before 3:30 Tuesday morning July 15th Dean Hamrick was eliminated vacating 10th spot in the 2008 World Seris of Poker Main Event. Suddenly the 2008 World Series of Poker Main Event was on hold. The remaining nine players will now have to wait until November 9 to return to the Rio in Las Vegas to continue chasing down the World Championship and the first place cash prize of $9.1 million. The 9 player remaining represent a terrific cross section of poker players. ... Read More

At any time you're playing poker, you want to bring all you got to the poker table, especially when playing cash games. Cash games are a high speed adrenaline rush every single hand. Unlike a cautious tournament, you can win some major money in the blink of an eye. The way to play No-Limit Hold'em cash games at a full table is to constantly have patience and do not play stupid. Playing cash games at a 9 seater is all about patience. You ... Read More

Scotty Nguyen vowed to win either the WSOP HORSE Championship or the Main Event this year. Good thing he won the HORSE event. Among the WSOP Day 2A casualties was poker pro Scotty Nguyen. We missed the hand that he went out on but we had our eyes on him for a while and he had been short-stacked most of the day. We saw him double up while holding only a few thousand in chips, but apparently that wasn't enough to stave off ... Read More

There have been plenty of casualties here in Day 1D of the WSOP Main Event the most recent of which was poker legend Doyle Brunson. While short-stacked Brunson got into a hand against Shrini Kelkar with a flop of .  Kelkar was first to act and bet out 2,000. Brunson pushed all in for 7,925 more. Kelkar showed an over-pair of while Brunson showd for an open-ended straight draw.   The turn was an and the river a . ... Read More

Like the Sports Illustrated cover curse or the Chicago Cubs' 'Curse of the Billy Goat,' poker tournament players often refer to the curse of the Day 1 chip leader, referring to the idea that he or she who has the chip lead after Day 1 tends not to fare well. Although this is probably a case of misattribution, let's look at the numbers to see what this year's chip leaders can expect to encounter. Last year, the combined top ten players after all ... Read More

There comes a time in everyone's Texas Holdem Poker life that they consider playing poker online. The beginner Poker player goes from reading about strategy, reading about online poker rooms until finally they make the ultimate decision - to play online. Some beginner's do quite nicely right from the start while others fail miserably and quit playing online altogether. So what separates the winning Holdem players from the losers? Well, just read on and find out. The best Texas Holdem Poker beginners play only ... Read More