Poker People

From player biographies to stories about the lives of today's top poker stars. This includes special events sponsored by players, and anything going on with their lives on and off the poker table.

• Health, Wealth, and Wisdom - Interview With Patrik Antonius, Part One

  April 11, 2007,

  Patrik Antonius is leaving Monte Carlo, and has three hours to pack, work out, and do this interview before he flies to Milan with Phil Ivey. While he makes some calls to the airline to re-schedule flights, I look around...

   

• J.C. Tran Expands Lead In POY Race

  April 10, 2007,

  After a flurry of tournament activity in March, several players have entered into contention for the 2007 Poker Player of the Year race, but one name continues to be the class of the field after the first quarter of the year....

   

• Tran Rockets Into Early Season POY Lead

  March 07, 2007,

  February may be the shortest month of the year, but it was packed with plenty of poker tournaments that completely changed the Poker Player of the Year race. There were not just one but two tournaments for the World Series of Poker...

   

• 'Exclusive'! Boeken Signs up for 'Stars'-ing Role

  February 21, 2007,

  Team PokerStars has its newest addition, and it's one of the top young Europeans in the game. Noah 'Exclusive' Boeken, the one-time prodigy of Marcel 'The Flying Dutchman' Lüske...

   

• The 2007 Poker Player of the Year Race Starts With a Bang

  February 03, 2007,

  With a flurry of activity, the 2007 Poker Player of the Year race is already being hotly contested. The leader board after the plentitude of January poker tournaments brings poker fans some familiar names...

   

• Bodog Ends Jamie Gold Endorsement Deal

  January 26, 2007,

  A Bodog spokesperson confirmed that Bodog has terminated their formal endorsement relationship with Jamie Gold, the 2006 WSOP Main Event champion....

   

• The WSOP Champions Wall: Two Stories

  January 02, 2007,

  Downtown at Binion's there is a wall with the pictures of the World Series of Poker Main Event Champions on it. I have some news about that wall and a great story about it too....

   

• From Small Stakes to Big Books: Interview with Sklansky Co-Author Ed Miller

  December 19, 2006,

  Ed Miller is long past the point where anyone would label him an aspiring poker writer which is surprising as, not long ago, he was going in an altogether different direction after graduating from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology in 2000...

   

• Five Diamond Tournament Shuffles, Tightens POY Race

  December 15, 2006,

  It was expected that the Five Diamond World Poker Classic, currently running at the Bellagio in Las Vegas, would be of critical importance when it came down to the Poker Player of the Year race....

   

• 'Green Plastic' Speaks: Interview With Poker Pro Taylor Caby, Part Two

  December 12, 2006,

  In Part One of the interview, Taylor discussed his background, and how he got started as an online pro. Today, in part two of the interview, Taylor talks about the future of online poker, and his own future....

   

• 'Green Plastic' Speaks: Interview With Poker Pro Taylor Caby, Part One

  December 11, 2006,

  Taylor Caby is a professional poker playing sensation, but, unlike many others, the general public has never seen Mike Sexton gesticulate wildly over his 'folds of the century' or heard Vince Van Patten give him a nickname....

   

• Poker Player Of The Year Is Mizrachi's To Lose

  December 08, 2006,

  After eleven months of battle ranging around the world, the Poker Player of the Year race comes down to three tournaments during the month of December. The three tournaments (the Bellagio's Five Diamond World Poker Classic in Las Vegas...

   

• Hayden Christensen Signs on to Play 'Poker Brat' in Hellmuth Movie

  December 07, 2006,

  The cat's out of the bag. According to a story at Production Weekly, it'll be Hayden Christensen playing the role of ten-time World Series of Poker bracelet winner Phil Hellmuth in 'The Madison Kid', the movie detailing the life and times...

   

• Poker and Playmates: Chris Moneymaker & the Mansion!

  December 05, 2006,

  There may be no better source of striking beauty than Playboy and their bunnies. With the enormous majority of poker players being of the male gender, it seems that poker and Playboy would be a natural marriage...

   

• Poker Champ and Vice Presidential Candidate?: An Interview with Greg Raymer

  December 04, 2006,

  Greg Raymer is the 2004 World Series of Poker Main Event champion. He overcame astronomical odds to win the most coveted of World Series bracelets by besting 2,576 other competitors, and is familiar to millions of Americans due to ESPN's...

   

• Catching Up With Barry Greenstein

  December 01, 2006,

  Barry Greenstein is one of the most famous poker players in the world, and, unlike some of the ones dominating the camera's spotlight on television, he also happens to be one of the best....

   

• Popular Poker Blogger 'Iggy' Causes Stir, Switches Outlets

  November 20, 2006,

  Blogging has become a huge part of our culture. Blogs on all subjects have popped up all over the Internet in recent years, and some of these blogs have hundreds of thousands of readers a day. Arguably the most widely read blogger in the poker blog worl

   

• Pamela Anderson Waves Goodbye to Online Poker, While Margolis Waves Hello

  November 10, 2006,

  Another shoe has dropped relative to the US passage of the UIGEA and it appears to be the high heel of former Baywatch star Pamela Anderson. Apparently Anderson has ended her affiliation...

   

• Can Anyone Derail The 'Mizrachi Express' From The Poker Player Of The Year?

  November 08, 2006,

  As the Player of the Year race moves into its final two months of 2006, there seems to be only one question that remains to be answered (and it's the question that has been posed since Day One of the race this year)....

   

• Poker Loses Billy Duarte

  October 25, 2006,

  Pot-limit specialist Billy Duarte died Monday of cancer. "Boston" Billy was a greyhound breeder that eventually turned his efforts to poker when the casinos started siphoning off the dog track action....

   

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