Poker Videos

The newest poker documentary I already informed you about, "BOOM: The Incredible True Story of Online Poker" created by Jay Rosenkrantz and Taylor Caby is growing even bigger. Now they released the first trailer, which looks rather promising. It is coming out in 2012.

The documentary set out "to use key events to chronicle the evolution of online poker and examine its impact on the lives of a handful of online poker players from around the world." Rosenkrant says they are intending to explore "the nuances of the subculture, from 2p2 to poker training sites, along with the psychological implications of the online poker lifestyle and the themes that have made poker so popular throughout time," as Rosenkrantz wrote in his blog on October 18, 2010. However, many things changed since then. April 15, known as the Black Friday changed the face of online poker forever. The producers had to change their plans and incorporate the recent events into the documentary as well.

Yesterday’s edition of the ESPN Inside Deal programme devotes the majority of its airtime to the issue of Black Friday and its after effects.

Besides discussing the questions what exactly led to this event and what charges the indicted companies face, Bernard Lee, Jon Anik and Andrew Feldman talk about the impact Black Friday has on the industry, affecting TV-shows, tours, online series and 8 to 10 millions of US players, including some who have lost their single source of income. In the second half of the discussion, poker pro Jason Senti joins in to share his thoughts on the matter.

I just found this interview with Daniel Cates, and thought you would be interested. The 21 year old American pro talks about his recent accomplishments at the PCA, his future plans getting involved in the live games, and much more. Enjoy, and have a nice weekend!

In this video, you can get insight into the everyday life of high stakes poker players; how they go through huge downswings almost daily, how their family reacts to their 'occupation' and what it is like to make a living out of poker.

Andrew "Good2cu" Robl, Peter "Apathy" Jetten, Di "Urindanger", Hac "Trex313" Dang, Thuy "Shesnogood" Doan, Martin "DrGiggy" Fournier Giguère, Alec "Traheho" Torelli, Ike "luvthewnba" Haxton, Shaun "tedsfishfry" Deeb, EmpireMaker2 are all featured in this video.

Enjoy!

There's a new gun in town. The portuguese wonder kid, Jose Macedo, who turned €30 into millions has now stepped out of the darkness and talked to Bret Oliverio and Eric Bickel about his carreer on PokerStatic.com.

The 18-year-old Portuguese kid, Jose Macedo started playing poker in the Summer of 2009. From the play money tables he rocketed to the NL1000 limits in just 1,5 year. His dream was to buy a house in Hawaii, which he recently did. At first his identity wasn't known to the public, he was talked about on forums as the "Portuguese poker prodigy". On March 2 this year, he revealed himself as Jose Macedo, or 'Girah', his nick at some poker forums. However, his nick at the tables and the rooms at which he plays are not public.

For more, watch the interview below, in which he talks about everything: how he started to play poker, how he taught himself to play better, how he managed to buy the house of his dreams in Hawaii, and his future plans with poker. Fascinating interview, highly recommended!

The third part of the 7th season of High Stakes Poker has now been posted to YouTube by GSN; so there you have it, you I'm making your lives easier, you can watch it here. The new episode, though definitely not as good as the previous seasons, is packed with interesting hands again; Phil Ruffin, the owner of the Treasure Island is on a huge heat, even so that he eliminates one player. But who is that and how it happened? You will have to see for yourself.

In this very interesting documentary with Randy 'nanonoko' Lew, one of the best online players today, he talks about  about how he started playing poker, how his video gaming helped him one of the top pros, and about his work ethic. It's quite an interesting piece, highly recommended.

Episode 2 of HSP7 has just aired and it is already available online, too. I saw in the comments that people complain about the new host Norm MacDonald; I agree he is somewhat monotonous. Still, action is pretty wild: in addition to a $108,000 and a $219,000 pot, the 43 minutes show also features an insane clash for more than $590,000. But I’m not going to spoil it for you, check it out instead. 

GSN decided to finally release the first episode of the 7th installment of their high stakes cash game show, High Stakes Poker. Contrary to the expectations, the first episode of the show wasn't bad at all. I mean I expected worse after all those really bad news that surfaced concerning the show. Think about Gabe Kaplan's "resignation', the Full Tilt pros' absence due to the new PokerStars sponsorship of the show and so on. Of course, without Kaplan and the Full Tilt pros it's less fun than the previous seasons, but it's still enjoyable, and the players and the editors managed to pack plenty of action into the 40 minutes of the first episode. Doyle Brunson, Vanessa Selbst, Barry Greenstein, Antonio Esfandiari and David Peat represent the poker pros, but there are also 3 recreational players at the table, Robert Croak, Phil Ruffin and Bill Klein. I'm interested in what you think about the video, please tell me below.

You probably have heard about British beauty Liv Boeree winning last week’s PokerStars Sunday Warm-up, the room’s $750,000 guaranteed tournament. At the 9-handed final table, in a field that started with 4,710 contestants, she eventually defeated James ’mig.com’ Mackey heads-up, winning $147,780. PokerStars.tv made a highlight show of the match which you can watch below.

The TV company GSN released their first commercial of the 7th season of its popular cash game show, High Stakes Poker. The ad is just a little teaser for those who are interested in the less interesting show due to the poor-ish field of players featuring Phil Laak, Daniel Negreanu, Doyle Brunson, Antonio Esfandiari, 2010 WSOP Main Event winner Jonathan Duhamel and Johnny Chan, but as I already wrote, no FTP pros will be attending, since the sponsor of the show is now PokerStars, so Full Tilt Poker  didn't allow Phil Ivey, Tom 'durrrr' Dwan and Patrik Antonius to play in the show. Shame. We'll see how the season turns out on February 26.

Gary Wise and Jason Senti, a poker playing having taken 7th place at last year's WSOP Main Event, have made a video interview with the online cash game phenomenon Randy 'nanonoko' Lew (considered by many as a human poker robot).

You can view their discussion below. 
 

Eugene Katchalov won the PCA $100,000 buy-in Super High Roller event, and took home a massive $1,500,000. This has been one of the main issues in the video interview made by Gary Wise with the Ukranian Katchalov, now living in the US. You can view their chat below.

Magic The Gathering champion (which is a collectible card game), now poker pro Gary Wise made this interview in his amateur ways for PokerStatic.com with the PokerStars pro Daniel Negreanu,  who kindly talks about his 2nd place finish at the PCA $100,000 Super High Roller tournament and his recent overtaking of Phil Ivey's place on the all-time money list as well.

PokerStatic has just published a video interview with Di and Hac Dang, also known as Urindanger and trex313, respectively. While Di plays PLO with Gus Hansen, they evaluate their poker year of 2010.

Di 'Urindanger' Dang

Di ‘Urindanger’ Dang has been playing at Full Tilt Poker since 2008, making $6,906,040 during a massive 514,765 hands. Meanwhile, his brother Hac ‘trex313’ Dang played 274,630 hands in the same period, amassing $6.548.474 in total. Hardly could anyone therefore deny them the title of “pro,” having proven their skills in years of successful high stakes play.