Regulating Online Poker in 2018
So far in 2018 we are witnessing the world of online poker regulation at its most fluid. Much is changing, in both a positive and negative way. The headline news right now is that John Pappas, the long-time Executive Director of the Poker Player’s Alliance (PPA), has stepped down from his post. With this big […]
Getting More Women to the Poker Table
Poker has done some hand wringing in the past about “the woman question”. Vegas marketing execs have been puzzling over it for decades and the largely male populations of 2+2 and other pokery parts of the internet have been speculating pretty wildly on the regs as well. At the time of writing these well argued […]
The Poker Book of the Future
The poker book is at a crisis point according to Daniel Negreanu, who recently went to far as to suggested that the book is dead as far as poker is concerned, saying that Twitch was the place to be – “More engaging and entertaining than a book!” was his description. This was in response to […]
The most famous Bluff on television
During the FullTilt Million Dollar “Durrrr” Challenge one of the best PLO and NLHE players of the world sat down with not-so professional business man who happened to play some poker. The result is legendary. Sammy “Any Two” George was a well-known “fish” in London and no one really knew where the big bankroll he […]
The Million Dollar Durrrr Challenge
The online version of the Durrrr Challenge was in full swing while poker was at its absolute high and all over the media. Mainstream networks televised poker shows on a weekly or even daily basis, newspapers portrayed the stars of the scene and money was coming from all kind of directions. These were the happy […]
The Durrrr Challenge or how a genius media coup can go completely wrong
If you have not lived under a rock somewhere on an island you should have heard of the Durrrr challenge. This challenge was one of the most famous and most talked off poker coup of the last year. What could be pictured as the perfect marketing deal for Full Tilt poker ultimately never fulfilled its […]
The Bots Are Coming: AI and Poker
Caltech’s Universal Robots A decade ago – before every man and his neopet were able to run a neural net to produce greeting cards, Love Hearts, or a new Harry Potter novel – for most people the image of AI was something like the HAL 9000 in Kubrick’s 2001: A Space Odyssey: a computer with a […]
BPC Ski Trip to Bormio. Recap.
We did it! Skiing in Bormio became a historical event. It was the first BPC meet up in the winter time. Hope, It will become a good annual tradition. As it often happens, the begging of anything started from small. Thus we meet in Bormio in a small, but cozy group: Gordon, Scott a.k.a. Fred, BPC […]
Fifteen Years Since Moneymaker Kicked Off the Poker Boom
This summer will mark 15 years since Chris Moneymaker defied the odds to win the World Series of Poker Main Event. After winning his seat in a satellite tournament, and following through, the 27-year-old account from Tennessee almost single-handedly kick started the poker boom which changed the game beyond all recognition Let’s take a look […]
The luckiest hand in poker or the “Doyle Brunson hand”
Many hands in poker have special names: Pocket aces are called pocket rockets, pocket kings are the cowboys and the famous “dead man’s hand” is made of aces and eights in cross and spades. But there are not many hands named after a player in the world of poker. Maybe you have heard of the […]
