Poker Videos

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.

In this interview done by PokerStatic's regular interviewers Eric Bickel and Bret Oliverio,  we can get know the Canadian NLHE cash game pro, Martin 'DrgGiggy' Giguere better. The 23-year-old ultra-aggressive mid-stakes player talks about his friend Jonathan Duhamel and his victory at WSOP, his 5% of the winnings, but also about his poker style, personality, and much much more. Highly recommended.

Dan Harrington was inducted into the Poker Hall of Fame alongside Erik Seidel in November. If you missed out their speeches because you didn't have the time, the opportunity or the need, I strongly suggest you watch them, for me it's really interesting to see such great men giving their acceptance speeches. Dan Harrington and Erik Seidel both did a lot for poker, and it's good to see they managed to stay this humble and honest. Check them out!

Dear all, if you are interested in EPT Barcelona's final table, it's happening at this very moment. The live stream is available at PokerStars, check it out, there are only 6 players left.

Jonathan Duhamel, the first Canadian WSOP Main Event champion ever wasn't as big in the media as he usually is, since has won the title, as he didn't give that many interviews. Now he talked to reporters Laura Lane and Andrew Feldman in ESPN's Inside Deal. He talks about how he felt when he won the WSOP, what his plans are with the near $9 million prize, and much more. Enjoy!

If you somehow haven't seen the WSOP Main Event final table yet, missed out the live stream, the videos and all, here's your chance to finally do it. PokerTube.com released the 100-minute show for all enthusiasts who doesn't have access to ESPN. I say, if you only watch 1 final table this year, this should be it.