Tipping makes the world go around. When you go to a restaurant, you typically leave a tip. If you don’t, you should. The amount varies by country and customs, but typically runs between 5% and 25%. In poker, it’s the same. Who should you tip, you ask? How about the dealer? What about the floor [...]

Players in the World Series of Poker (WSOP), World Poker Tour (WPT) events, and online tournaments have to contend with the dreaded “grind.” What is the grind, you ask? It involves sitting for hours on end in the same position, hopelessly folding cards with no end in sight. Players in ring games also know this [...]

The World Series of Poker (WSOP) begins every year in late May and typically wraps up in July. In recent years, the final table of the prestigious $10,000 buy-in Main Event has been pushed back to November in order to coincide with television coverage on ESPN. Thousands upon thousands of players flock to the Rio [...]

Let’s face it. Poker, like many other things, is a man’s world. When ladies comprise even ten percent of an open tournament field it draws attention and the casino staff is applauded. However, just because women are in the minority doesn’t mean they haven’t seen their fair share of poker success: from Tiffany [...]

You can’t be an efficient and hip online poker player unless you understand the basics of internet lingo. If your peers are spouting off acronyms like “lol” and “rofl,” you’d better know exactly what they mean. Being aware of the common internet speak will make playing online poker a pleasurable experience. More importantly, you’ll be [...]

The game is the same around the world. Poker players in Hong Kong see the same flops as those visiting casinos in Mexico. From Australia to Austria and back, bets on the turn and the river still determine the fortunes of millions of dollars on a daily basis. Players worldwide can battle it out in [...]

I have a fever and, apparently, the only cure is more challenges. While prop bets and poker have gone together like peanut butter and jelly for some time, the recent rash of prop bet “challenges” has brought them into the spotlight and it seems as though they are all everyone is talking about these [...]

We’ve talked to some of the world’s top poker pros. As you can imagine, their travel schedules are extremely hectic. They need to be organized in order to make the journey from one poker tournament to the next. Oftentimes, this involves successfully navigating airports, foreign expressways, and languages that are not native. We’re here to [...]