Not at lot of poker players had heard of Twitch before 2014, but when the livestreaming video games platform introduced poker among its services in late 2014, it exploded. Jason Sommerville became the public face of Twitch and drew thousands of followers to his broadcasts, where they could watch him …
French poker pro Lucille Cailly is a woman with a lot of talents. She has studied epistemology (the study of knowledge) at the famous Sorbonne University in Paris, she is a writer, a very successful poker player with 1,545,647 in live tournament earnings according to the Hendon Mob and now …
2013 was the year Loni Harwood broke into the mainstream poker scene after capturing a WSOP bracelet in a $1,500 NLH Event and topping a field of 2,541 players. She final tabled 3 events and cashed in 6 events overall. Last year Harwood was not able to complete the series …
Much have been said about women-only tournaments lately. It’s a subject surrounded with a lot of controversy. At EPT Deauville 22 male players entered the Ladies Event, which prompted Victoria Coren to say: “Those are not 22 men, those are 22 idiots!”. And just a couple of days ago Katie …
On January 31 Esther Taylor-Brady, know as E-Tay, was at the six-handed final table of the World Poker Tour Borgata. We caught up with E-Tay to hear more about her final table experience and to get her take on some of the hands she played. It’s been more than a …
American poker player Vanessa Rousso was a member of Team PokerStars Pro for 9 years. She was signed just after she finished in 7th place at the $25,000 WPT Championship in 2006. But now Vanessa Rousso and PokerStars have parted ways. F5Poker.com was the first media to notice that the successful …
Poker is not all about twenty-something guys with hoddies and headphones. Having said that it’s pretty unusual to see players bring their babies along for international poker tournaments. But PokerStars pro Adrienne Rowsome wouldn’t miss the Women’s Event at the PCA, so she brought her son Carrick and her husband …
On December 2nd, Poker Night in America filmed a ladies only 25-50 no limit holdem cash game. The game was livestreamed online and episodes begin airing on CBS Sports Network on January 5. PokerWomenNews sat down with professional poker player Dr. Jaclynn Moskow to ask her about her experience playing …
In episode eight of the televised poker show the Shark Cage, Team PokerStars pro Vanessa Selbst attempts to bluff German wunderkind Ole Schemion. Does she succeed? In the Shark Cage the players risk to spend an orbit in the cage if they fold to a bluff or get caught bluffing themselves. In this heat, …
Yaxi Zhu has done it again and made another final table, and this time she went all the way and took down a €2,000 NL Holdem side event at EPT Prague. The field included top players like wunderkind Ole Schemion and former EPT Player of the Year Ondrej Vinklarek. When …