Every year, we see more and more successful women in poker. 2016 is no different as we’ve already seen a number of ladies go deep in major tournaments. But how are some of the more-famous female players doing? We caught up with James Carter from PokerStop.com and he gives us …
Sponsorship deals are not easy to get in this day and age, but being a successful athlete helps – at least when it comes to signing a deal with the world’s largest poker site PokerStars. Cristiano Ronaldo, Neymar Jr, Fatima Moreira de Melo, Ronaldo and Marcus Hellner are all …
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 …
In an open letter to the world’s largest poker site posted on February 21st on her blog, poker pro Katie Dozier shares her concern that PokerStars has downgraded its focus on women in poker. For some time now it’s been evident that the former thriving PokerStars Women community has suffered …
When 21 year old Laura Garzón Cortes from Colombia realized she had only 7 frequent player points left on her PokerStars account, she decided to play an online satellite costing 2 FPP. The satellite was a “FPP Mega-Path”, which ultimately had 6 packages for the PCA Main Event at the Bahamas …
Just a year ago, in November 2013, Yaxi Zhu played her first live tournament. It was the WPT National China. The final table of six played out in South Korea in December after a break and Yaxi Zhu finished in 4th place for $80,650. Since then the young Chinese has …
For some time now, news from the world’s largest online poker room PokerStars have been rather depressing. In August PokerStars parted ways with well-known Latin American players Humberto Brenes, Angel Guillen and Jose “Nacho” Barbero, and in September the poker site said goodbye to 2009 Main Event champion Joe Cada, …
Canada’s Xuan Liu had an excellent night at the online tables as she Tweeted this morning: Won two tournaments today for my best online Sunday ever! — Xuan Liu () September 8, 2014 First Liu won a $11 tournament on PokerStars for $3,129 and then she went on to win …
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 …
It took 14 hours to finish SCOOP Event #08-High, a $700 Heads-Up No Limit Hold’em event. The tournament attracted 765 players, and when they were only eight left the Norwegian pro Annette Obrestad was one of them. Annette Obrestad, who plays under her well-known screen name “Annette_15”, met “teunuss” from …