PokerStars is becoming an international sports betting brand

25 Aug 2015

Rational Group was for years a company dedicated to just poker with its PokerStars brand Isai Scheinberg, a former senior programmer for IBM Canada, built Poke... Continue Reading

The A-Z of poker terms and where they originated from

17 Aug 2015

All poker players should know their straights from their flushes, but there’s a lot more to poker terms than simply describing the hand you’ve made Style of pl... Continue Reading

British poker player wins 5 online tournaments in seven days

3 Aug 2015

News surfaced this week that a poker player hailing from the U.K. had done what many poker professionals could only ever dream of doing. Daniel Carter, a poker... Continue Reading

A reality check on the true potential of the US online poker market

24 Jul 2015

It’s been a rough road for regulated US online poker so far Online poker returned to the United States in 2013 when Delaware, Nevada and New Jersey legal... Continue Reading

Regulated online poker to hit California in 2015?

24 Jul 2015

California is a huge market for regulated online poker and is seen as a game-changer if and when the game is allowed back – could 2015 be the year it happens? ... Continue Reading

Profiling the World Series of Poker November Nine

23 Jul 2015

Having whittled the field down from 6,420 players to just nine, the 2015 World Series of Poker is all set for an incredible final contest when November rolls a... Continue Reading

Playing poker in Las Vegas vs playing poker online: What’s the d...

9 Jul 2015

Who are more skilled: online poker players or Vegas poker players? It’s an age-old debate that originally emerged in the 1990s when online poker first to... Continue Reading

Karl Mahrenholz takes a look at London’s new casinos

6 Jul 2015

The packed Schedule in London allowed me the chance to visit two of the capital’s newest poker hotspots. Neither the Hippodrome or Aspers disappointed. The con... Continue Reading

Ellie Biessek: Trouble hands, part 1 – A-J

12 Jun 2015

Watch out for tricky hands, says Grosvenor Poker pro Ellie Biessek, and find the spots to play them well In David Sklansky’s book, Hold’em Poker for Adva... Continue Reading

The importance of proper bankroll management

17 May 2015

Proper bankroll management is one of the essentials, if you want to ever become a successful poker player. As we all know, the variation in the game is huge an... Continue Reading