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The journey from a fish to a shark in poker is not an easy one. The path you take will be filled with pitfalls, enticing shortcuts, and setbacks, but for the few who players that manage to not stray from their chosen path the reward at the end is often well worth it –both financially […]

The journey from a fish to a shark in poker is not an easy one. The path you take will be filled with pitfalls, enticing shortcuts, and setbacks, but for the few who players that manage to not stray from their chosen path the reward at the end is often well worth it –both financially […]

Along the way there have been many memorable moments in poker history, but in the 175 years of poker there have been perhaps less than a dozen moments that have shaped the poker world. In this column I’ll list my 10 choices for the most influential moments in poker history. In the first part of […]

Along the way there have been many memorable moments in poker history, but in the 175 years of poker there have been perhaps less than a dozen moments that have shaped the poker world. In this column I’ll list my 10 choices for the most influential moments in poker history. In this, the first part […]

This article is going to “name names” but let me just say that for how much I might bash the two players below I also respect them for being outspoken, just as I respect Daniel Negreanu for the same thing. The difference I see between the three people below and Negreanu is that Daniel doesn’t […]

The 2+2 poker forum is considered by many to be the voice of the poker community, and rightly so considering it is not only one of the largest poker forums on the Internet but also one of the largest forums of any kind on the Internet. Unfortunately, like most things Internet, there is a certain […]

Since Black Friday a number of the biggest names of in poker have gone completely off the grid –for a variety of different reasons—and in this column I’ll try to figure out where one of these players, Joe Sebok, has gone and what he has been up to since Black Friday. In between Super-User perpetrator […]

In the summer of 1949 a poker match may or may not have taken place that was the inspiration for what would become the World Series of Poker. According to legend, famed gambler Nick “The Greek” Dandalos breezed into Las Vegas after an unbelievable run of luck back east. Dandalos came to Las Vegas looking […]

It’s pretty hard to fly under the radar in the poker world when you have won millions of dollars playing tournaments, and for one entrant on this list, won the World Series of Poker Main Event! But somehow these players have managed to stay relatively anonymous to the casual poker fan, or at the very […]

This list is going to be controversial from the get-go, considering I have listed five of the best-known poker players in the world on this list. So let me explain what criterion I have used to determine who the most overrated tournament players are: Basically I have looked at a player’s performance since the poker […]