Poker Player Blog

We are at the close of day two of the 2010 Poker Stars EPT from Vilamoura in Portugal. This is the seventh season of Europe’s biggest poker tour and the second leg of this year’s event. The tour began on August 11 in Tallinn, Estonia and will finish sometime in the spring of next year [...]

At the close of the fifth day of main event play Andreas Krause became a champion with a pair of fives. This was the first year the Merit Cyprus Classic was sponsored by Full Tilt and the first time it was won by a relative unknown (to Americans at least). Andreas Krause walks away with [...]

Sponsored by Full Tilt Poker (perhaps in a bid to balance their recent negative bad press) the Merit Cyprus Classic is actually held in Cyprus, Greece. The poker tournament is a part of the World Poker Tour and is traditionally sponsored by Pokerstars. The location is political and the prize pool is around $3 million. [...]

It didn’t take long for the original number of applicants for the European Pokerstars tour main event to go from 420 to 25 by today, the end of day three. The players are eyeing the 400,000 euro prize which is about $510,680.00 to us. A lot of big names have already bitten the dust. Here’s [...]

I’m always on the lookout for things to write about that involve poker but may be a little different from the usual poker blogs out there. I decided to delve into the archives and film and theater to find poker movies and plays that not only provided insight into the game but insight into the [...]