Have you heard of Yu Kurita before? Maybe not, but the Japanese player from Tokyo, who arrived at the airport two days ago made WSOP history yesterday, when she made it to the final table of the $2,200 Six-Max event at the World Series of Poker Asia-Pacific. No woman has …
Even though online poker has been around for approximately 15 years, the stereotypes of the online grinder still thrive. The typical players is a man in his early twenties. He’s an introvert nerd with a hoodie, who plays poker nonstop surrounded by large computer screens and empty pizza boxes. While …
Before the World Series of Poker not a lot of people in the poker world had heard of Mikiyo Aoki from Bozeman, Montana. That all changed this summer, when the 24-year old Demo Architect, who works for Oracle, finished runner-up in the Ladies Event to Haixia Zhang and in 83rd …
When Black Friday hit on April 15, 2011, pokerpro Christina Lindley was in her home in Las Vegas. Devastated. At that time Lindley was primarily an online player, and she was pretty much crushing. In 2009 she was runner-up in a FTOPS event for $106,460, and in 2010 she won …
Ruth Graham is a 38-year old poker pro from Denver, Colorado. She mainly plays cash games, but also a few tourneys each year at the WSOP and the WPT. Until 2005 she worked as a system engineer for Sun Microsystems, but decided to quit her job as she was making …
If the term “live grinder” ever made sense, it sure fits perfectly on Nancy “Trouble” Birnbaum. The pokerpro, who recently moved to Fort Lauderdale in Florida, spends most of the year traveling the WSOP Circuit. She is the only woman to win three Circuit Rings, and she has more than …
When Margareta “Maggie” Morris decided to play the World Series of Poker this summer, she had no previous WSOP cash to her name. When she returned home to Valley Forge, Pennsylvania, she had $212,202 in her bank account for her 4th place finish in Event #49: $5,000 No-Limit Hold’em. Even …
The World Series of Poker 2014 is in the books, and both the pros and the recreational players are on to other things. Enjoying the summer or playing the next tournament or cash game. But now is also the time to digest and look back at the crazy, exhausting and …