Picture of the day - Steven Seagal's poker movie poster

As we have previously reported, Steven Seagal is coming out with a new, poker-themed movie. The film is set to be released in October, and the movie poster is already available, featuring an attractive woman in the water, a gun-reloading Steven Seagal (with a weirdly white and puffy face), Vinnie James and his maniac look, a stripper on a pole and a mean-looking guy aiming a pistol at the beat-up lead character. Very original Steven, very original. 

WCOOP - Are Russian players going to dominate yet another series?

When the MicroMillions series was running on PokerStars, we took a look at the insane statistics that Russian players had gathered throughout the series. Seven of the ten players on the series leaderboard were Russian, and they scored 16 titles out of 100 events and earned more than $1.1 million combined. This time, we are looking at the Russian players most likely to crush the WCOOP events.

Raymond Wu talks about China's poker boom

PokerStars Team Pro Raymond Wu recently visited the 2014 PokerStars.net Beijing Millions, and shared his experiences regarding Chinese players, their superstitions and what's next come in China poker wise. He also talks about the culture of poker teams and teaches us some Chinese poker lingo.

Tom Marchese wins Aria $100,000 Super High Roller II for $1.3 million

Last Friday the Aria Resort & Casino in Las Vegas hosted their second $100,000 Super High Roller. The event had 22 entries and a prizepool of almost $2.2 million, with many big names like Igor Kurganov, Andrew Robl, Doug "WCGRider" Polk, Philipp Gruissem and Brian Rast making an apperance. 

Picture of the day - Poker pros at Burning Man

We have already posted a picture of Phillip Gruissem's wicked Burning Man costume a couple of days ago, and now you can see some of the other poker pros who have decided to visit the Nevada desert. Jason Koon's "happy panda" face, Igor Kurganov's "Lost Voice" sign in the background, and the fact that everyone on the picture looks like they are one big family, really shows what the festival is about. 

Winamax Series X starts this Sunday with €6 million guaranteed

As we have reported, WCOOP and MiniFTOPS are both starting this weekend, but if you want even more tournaments to choose from, you are in luck, because French site Winamax is hosting their own tournament series, with €6 million guaranteed to be paid out in 76 tournaments.

Underground Poker - New series with Antonio Esfandiari and Phil Laak

The two poker players have been best friends for a long time, they already had a TV show together, called "I Bet You", which lasted 2 seasons. This time around, they're hunting for underground private games, the pilot will be aired on Discovery Channel on September 10.

Picture of the day - Daniel Negreanu sweating a chopped pot

Today's picture of the day depicts the excitement of Negreanu and the crowd during a big hand that happened during 3-handed play at the $1,000,000 buy-in Big One for One Drop tournament. Christoph Vogelsang went all-in with a short stack and KJ, and Negreanu called with the inferior KT. The flop was AQ8, which gave both players straight draws, but Negreanu only started to really sweat the hand when the 5 of diamonds hit the turn, giving him a flushdraw as well as chop outs, and that was the moment when photographer Drew Amato snapped this picture. The river 5 was one of the chop outs, and Vogelsang busted just a few hands later. 

MiniFTOPS starting at Full Tilt Poker this weekend

The 26th edition of the micro/low stakes tournament series starts on September 7 with a $1.4 million guaranteed prizepool to be paid out across 31 events. The schedule is exactly the same as it was for the recently finished FTOPS, the only difference is that the buy-ins cost just 1/10th of the FTOPS buy-ins.

Seminole Hard Rock Poker Open - Daniel Colman is the Main Event champion

The Seminole Hard Rock Poker Open final table was full of excitement, but when Dan Colman is at the table with a big stack, the results are pretty much already in the envelope. The 23-year old is having arguably the sickest run in the history of poker, winning more than $21 million in 2014.

Picture of the day - Doyle Brunson in 1952

Doyle Brunson was born in 1933, but even in 2013, at the age of 80, he managed to cash at the WSOP Main Event (409th place, $28,063). "Texas Dolly" is truly a poker legend, but most of us have only gotten to know him in his later years. Recently, one of Doyle's former high school classmates posted an album from 1952, and we got to see the Godfather of Poker as a high school student. 

Seminole Hard Rock Poker Open - Daniel Colman at the final table of the Main Event, Jacob Schindler wins the High Roller

18 players returned to Day 5 of the SHRPO Main Event, and at the end of of the day we were left with an incredibly strong final table lineup, with Daniel Colman, Mike Leah and John Dolan both advancing to the 6-handed final. Meanwhile, Jacob Schindler wins the controversial High Roller event for $570,000.

Meet the PokerStars Protégés

In PokerStars' Protégé promotion, four PS Team Pros had to choose a protégé they're going to mentor and train for the upcoming WCOOP tournaments, including the $10 million guaranteed WCOOP Main Event. The most successful protégé wins a package to the 2015 PokerStars Caribbean Adventure. The Pros have made their decision, it's time to meet the players they picked!

Seminole Hard Rock Poker Open - $2.5 million overlay in the Main Event, controversy in the High Roller

The 2014 Seminole Hard Rock Poker Open is currently being held at the Florida Hotel and Casino, but due to poor scheduling, their $10 million guaranteed tournament has an overlay of $2.5 million, as well as problems with the $100,000 buy-in High Roller tournament, where organizers wanted to change the payout structure at the end of Day 1. 

5 Obscure Variants of Poker

In modern times, poker has enjoyed a resounding popularity among all forms of card games. The explosion in online poker rooms saw the rise of certain varieties of poker, namely Texas Hold’em, Omaha and Caribbean Stud, in favour of other lesser-known variants, a phenomenon that was also helped in no small part to their heavy presence at land-based casinos and in movies.

 

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