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 …
Yesterday is was announced that Taiwan’s Chen-An Lin and China’s Yaxi Zhu have become the newest members of Team PokerStars Pro. With the addition of the two Asian players PokerStars continues its focus on the fast growing Asian poker market. Zhu is the third female poker player from Asia to …
Even though Vanessa Selbst is not in top 15 of the GPI Player of the Year Ladies rankings – Selbst currently occupies 20th place – it’s definitely not synonymous with a year without cashing for the three-time WSOP bracelet winner. On Wednesday, August 12, it was revealed on NBC Sports …
Katie Dozier is known as a tough online grinder under the screen name “hotjenny314” and for playing a ton of tables at the same time. She is part of the power quartet The Grindettes together with Katie Stone, Jennifer Shahade and Jamie Kerstetter. She is also a video coach at PokerStrategy.com and DragTheBar.com …
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 …
“I have a serious case of wanderlust! I absolutely love traveling. I think it comes from a childhood of constantly moving around; although my parents were not wealthy, we went on a lot of cross country family vacations and road trips. I get incredibly restless spending too much time in …
2014 was an amazing year for the top female players from the UK. The year began with Liv Boeree finishing runner-up in UKIPT in Edinburgh for nearly $100k, which she followed up with numerous deep runs that saw her rise to the top spot of the GPI Female Player of …
Around three weeks ago Angela Jordison won three consecutive tournaments in three days at the Spring Poker Round-Up at Wildhorse Resort & Casino in Pendleton, Oregon. All three events attracted hundreds of runners, but at the end of the day Angela Jordison emerged victorious in all three events. The bar …
In the first part of our interview with novelist, ghostwriter, journalist, and poker player Rachel Kranz we discussed her work with mental coach Jared Tendler, the way women and particularly older women are perceived at the poker table, and her experience playing Chino Rheem heads-up in the 8-max event at …
Rachel Kranz, known on Twitter as “AdventuresPoker,” is indeed an adventurous person and very far from the general conception of a poker player. She’s a woman, she turned 60 this year, and away from the tables she works as a novelist, playwright, journalist, and ghostwriter. In 2000 she published her …