Poker Videos

More and more students decide to try and make a living out of poker in the United States.

Although they are not old enough to enter a casino, nothing prevents them from playing online poker. This phenomenon has spread so widely that ABC News has also recently dealt with it in their Nightline news programme, in which they interviewed last year’s WSOP ME winner Joe Cada and teenage poker player Blaine Brount.

You can view the video below.

I am sure a lot of you have heard about Neil Andrew Channing. He  is an professional poker player from London.
Neil became a truly well-known poker player when he won the Irish Poker Open in 2008. Channing has cashed 18 times at the WSOP, and his live career winnings accumulate to more than $1,900,000. Neils writes regularly for Bluff Europe Magazine. In 2009, he and fellow poker player Nick Persaud launched their own site, Black Belt Poker.

Neil is also known for staking a lot of players, like James Akenhead, for example. James has won cash in a lot of events in which Neil had percentages in the past few years, including a WSOP Main Event final table last year.

In the interview below, you can hear ‘the English Santa Claus of Poker’ talk about staking usually works, and the general concepts behind it. 

Ub.net seems to get into a new advertising campaign in which they are trying to reach players with a funny, new approach. The reasons, however, remain unclear why they must have chosen this awfully executed awful commercial with that awful CG Dog featuring those awful poker pro look-alikes acting out those awful lines. Really, when I watch this ad, I feel sorry for the actors and everybody involved in this trainwreck, and I definitely don't want to register a UB account because of the commercial.

How about you? You think they are funny? Or do you know worse?
Please let me know in the comments section below.

ESPN’s coverage of the 2010 WSOP Main Event started to air on 10th August and continues to screen two episodes every Tuesday until 9th November, when the Finale will be broadcast. Eps 7 and 8 cover Main Event Day 2B, while 9 and 10 are airing tomorrow.

The event days present poker stars like Phil Ivey, Phil Laak, Doyle Brunson, Barry Greenstein and Dan Harrington.

Episode 7:

Congressman Barney Frank discussed online gambling and personal liberty on Jay Leno’s The Tonight Show. Topics of their conversation included the income to be made by taxing a regulated online gambling market, the ways to limit it to children, etc. Issues like lottery and marijuana were brought as examples and Frank’s arguments revolved around adults who are to be allowed to do whatever they like at home. It was an intelligent debate between Leno and Frank, I recommend watching this 4 minutes long session of the show.

One of the central topics nowadays in the poker community, the Durrrr Challenge 2 has already offered a number of interesting hands, as we had hoped. These are the subjects of a video analysis from Phil ‘OMGClayAiken’ Galfond.

Galfond is, by the way, the only player durrrr excluded from participating in the challenge. He is among the top players on both FTP’s and PokerStars’ annual profit lists.

Jungleman is currently leading with a $692,400 profit after a little more than 6,800 hands from the 50,000 of the duel. I can’t wait to see how it goes for the next 43,000.

Watch Galfond’s analysis here. 

The EPT Vilamoura is slowly drawing to an end, with the final table currently being played.

So far, the event has been full of surprises, one of these was the participation of many-many famous athletes.
Here is Fatima Moreira de Melo, for example. Fatima is a world-famous Dutch field hockey player, who has also been playing poker for more than a year now. Unfortunately, Fatima didn't make it to the final table this time. Nevertheless, you can now see a video interview with her, where she answers questions posed by her fans.

Teddy Sheringham, famous English football (soccer) player got more lucky than Fatima, and is currently playing the final table.

Phil Ivey doesn't give interviews very often, so it is exceptional that Tatjana Pasalic caught him at the WPT London. Ivey talks about his feelings about the tournament and he feels confident that he has serious chances of winning it this year. When asked whether poker's popularity is about to drop or not, he also talks about the reputation of poker worldwide.

An interesting video to watch, I highly recommend it!

ESPN’s coverage of the 2010 WSOP Main Event started to air on 10th August and continues to screen two episodes every Tuesday until 9th November, when the Finale will be broadcast. Eps 5 and 6 cover Main Event Day 2, while 7 and 8 are airing tomorrow.

The event day presents poker stars like Daniel Negreanu, Patrik Antonius and Michael Mizrachi. 

Episode 5:

Please note: due to bug in the embed code, Ep5 part 1 is only available at PokerTube. The link above will take you there. You can watch the rest and Ep6 here.

In this episode of "This Week In Poker by WickedChops.com" guests include Kimberly Lansing, who talks about the WPT, Legends of poker and much more; Phil Laak, who gives a Skype interview, in which he talks about his horrible ATV quad accident (which I already wrote about) in which he broke 7 bones; and Jess Wellman, with some of the most important poker news. Finally, we have some comments on the recent Negreanu vs. Duke affair.

If you won't watch the whole 1:19 minutes of the video, I definitely suggest you watch the bit from 49:28 till 1:14, where Phil Laak talks about his accident, it is really worth watching.

A few days ago, my friend linked this video on Facebook. Whoever feels like they need some motivation for the Vilamoura stop of the EPT, starting today, should definitely watch this!
 

Golf & Poker at the EPT Vilamoura
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In PokerTube’s long video interview with Kara Scott, she is asked about her life before and now, her background in poker, the role as hostess for the EPT, the WPT and the WPO as well as her experience with poker pros like Brian Townsend. 

After one month break, the FOX TV show PokerStars’ The Big Game returned to the screen with David ’Viffer’ Peat, Barry Greenstein, Antonio Esfandiari, Chau Giang and Rick Rahim. This week’s Loose Cannon was Troy Howard from NYC. How did he fare? Check it out. 

ESPN’s coverage of the 2010 WSOP Main Event started to air on 10th August and continues to screen two episodes every Tuesday until 9th November, when the Finale will be broadcast. Eps 3 and 4 cover Main Event Days 1C and 1D, while 1 and 2 in my previous post are on Days 1A and 1B.

The 3rd and 4th event days present poker stars like Joe Cada, Daniel Negreanu, Patrik Antonius, Tom ‘durrrr’ Dwan and Phil Hellmuth.

Episode 3:

ESPN’s coverage of the 2010 WSOP Main Event started to air on 10th August and continues to screen two episodes every Tuesday until 9th November, when the Finale will be broadcast. Eps 1 and 2 cover Main Event Days 1A and 1B, while 3 and 4 in my next post will be on Days 1C and 1D.

The very first event days present poker stars like Mike ‘The Mouth’ Matusow, Chris Moneymaker, Michael ‘The Grinder’ Mizrachi, Maria Ho and Tiffany Michelle.

Episode 1: