With the World Series of Poker only a week away we caught up with one of the most popular and likeable players in the poker world, Jennifer Tilly. On screen the Academy Award nominee actress has been known for her performances in Bound, Bullets over Broadway, Monsters, Inc., and Family …
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 …
In 2013 Jackie Glazier was the last woman standing in the Main Event at World Series of Poker. She finished in 31th place and recieved $229,281 for a really amazing performance. Just three months later she won her first bracelet, when she took down the first Ladies Championship at World …
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 …
746 excited players took their seats on Day 4 of the Main Event. They were only around 50 players away from making the money and a cash of minimum $18,406. When the day was in the books, only 291 players remained and each player was guaranteed $33,734. In the Money …
When the 1,933 remaining players from the first two starting flights returned to play Day 2ab of the World Series of Poker Main Event, they were all hoping for a fun day, a great run and ultimately the big treasure chest at the end of the rainbow. But when the …