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I recently returned from a trip to Washington, DC in which I was privileged to be part of the Poker Players Alliance's (PPA) National Poker Week Fly-In. Part of this event included a gathering of 33 PPA State Directors, a handful of poker celebrities, and various lobbyists and media members. Read more »
I figured with the World Series of Poker (WSOP) upon us I would talk a little about my breakout year in 2006. I think it makes sense to backtrack and set things up, though. Prior to the 2006 WSOP, I had played only two live events ever (I never even played the $100 buy-ins at the local casino). I had played pretty poorly earlier that year in the PokerStars Caribbean Adventure and was unhappy with my play. Read more »
My favorite part about watching "The Celebrity Apprentice" this season was to watch how Annie Duke played the game. It was obvious that she was a poker player (and no, not because she was "two-faced" or "conniving") because she was the only one who seemed to have any sort of plan. Read more »
The 2009 World Series of Poker (WSOP) is well underway. Already, most of this year's 57 WSOP bracelets have been awarded. If you have never been to the Rio All-Suite Hotel and Casino during the summer, you owe it to yourself to attend one year to witness the spectacle that is the WSOP. Read more »
The Poker Players Alliance (PPA) held a press conference at the Rio All-Suite Hotel and Casino during the 2009 World Series of Poker (WSOP) to announce several of its latest projects including National Poker Week, a national poker petition, and a new website called mypokerstory.com. I hope you will check out some of these projects. Read more »
Most of you probably don't know this, but the Poker News Daily you are reading right now is actually Poker News Daily version 2.x (I would say 2.0, but that's not quite accurate – the site has undergone some changes in recent months). Read more »
For the first time in the history of the World Series of Poker (WSOP), players were turned away from entering the Main Event. It was unfortunate for those players, the WSOP, and the people at Harrah's. Here's what happened. Read more »
I walked into the Amazon Room at the Rio Hotel and Casino at 11:59am to play in the $1,500 buy-in Omaha/8 event at the 40th Annual World Series of Poker (WSOP). I've participated in 28 out of the 40 years that the WSOP has been in existence, and, as usual, I was filled with excitement at the prospect of winning another gold bracelet. Read more »
I know you may find this hard to believe, particularly after all the sage advice I have doled out on this website, but I have never won a World Series of Poker bracelet. I came close to a bracelet when I watched a final table from the bleachers, but never have been named the rightful owner of one. Read more »
Since the inception of the World Series of Poker 40 years ago, one of the biggest attractions wasn't the tournament series itself but the side games that occurred after people had busted out of their tournaments. Read more »
It's once again time for the World Series of Poker (WSOP) – the 40th edition. For poker players, the WSOP is the ultimate in "thrill of victory and the agony of defeat." It's where dreams come true and also where dreams are shattered. Many of us dote about the bracelets, the history, and the tradition that set the WSOP apart from other tournaments, but the beauty is that most players really can win life-changing money. Read more »
Let's talk about bankroll management. But let's talk about it in a different way than most advice-lenders do. Most articles about bankroll management discuss it from the perspective of a professional player, or at the very least, a semi-pro. Read more »
I've been taking a short break from tournaments lately after a pretty good Spring in which I finished second in the Six-Max Cubed Pot Limit Omaha event during the PokerStars Spring Championship of Online Poker. Poker tournaments are always a lot more fun when you're winning and a whole lot less fun when you're losing. Read more »
Annie Duke reached the final table of the $10,000 buy-in World Championship of Omaha High-Low Eight or Better at the 2009 World Series of Poker (WSOP). It was one of her first appearances in the spotlight since finishing as the runner-up in NBC's hit reality series Celebrity Apprentice. Duke sat down with Poker News Daily to discuss the reaction at the Rio. Read more »
Recently, a thread started on one of the online forums where the original poster asked if people would teach their children poker. Read more »
The weather in Las Vegas is awesome right now and I spend some time each morning when I'm home reading the paper in my backyard and thinking. Here are some of today's random poker thoughts (in no particular order) and one random non-poker thought. Read more »
First, I celebrated my 39th birthday with family and friends. My two wonderful kids helped me blow out the candles (and there are a lot of them now) on my cake. Second, my radio show, "The Bernard Lee Poker Show," is celebrating its second anniversary on the air. Read more »
It's that time of year again. Only scant weeks away, the 2009 World Series of Poker is ready to begin its arduous seven week trek into mid-July. Read more »
When the People's Republic of China began cracking down on its citizens and their internet access a few years ago, many civil libertarians and human rights activists issued dire warnings. They cautioned us that various forms of government and corporate-assisted censorship would eventually find their way to American shores. They were right. Read more »
When playing poker, be it online or live, it is easy to not give it your all. Online, you could be playing multiple tables and not be able to give your full attention to any one game, or you could be distracted by any number of things, such as the world wide web, television, or even your un-potty trained toddler running around naked. Read more »
Spring has definitely arrived. This year, the weather in New England has been at times unseasonably warm, as the temperature has already reached into the 60s on several occasions. Although New England golf usually doesn't get into full swing until mid-April, most golf courses in the area opened in mid-March this year. Read more »
Grinding: making a living playing a lot of online poker, often at low to moderate stakes. You have to admire the irony inherent in its use in the poker world. The "daily grind" has always been used to describe a job. Read more »
We just completed Season VII of the World Poker Tour (WPT) with the season-ending $25,000 buy-in Championship event at Bellagio. Due to the economic slowdown, the number of entries was down substantially from a year ago (545 to 347). However, most of the big names in the poker world were there and the event was incredible. Read more »
Meet Mer Brit. A 28-year-old poker pro from Atlanta known as "PeachyMer" online, Brit has been running rampant on the tournament scene in 2009. Read more »
One of the things I like best about cruising is that you get to see a lot of great places and only have to pack and unpack once. I just returned from a wonderful trip to Cozumel, Grand Cayman, and Jamaica with approximately 300 other poker players on a Card Player Cruises vacation. Read more »
