Record High Stakes Poker Pot
Doyle Brunson showed the founder of Cirque du Soleil that he may be outclassed in the bankroll department, but never in the play of poker. Guy Laliberte is the only non pro in the special High Stakes Poker series where the buy in is $500,000, but as a billionaire he can afford to gamble. In a recent hand Brunson, who has been playing tight, raised $11k pre flop and $40k post flop, and by then only Guy was left in the hand…
Poker Pro Joins Distribution Partnership
Expert Insight is a poker themed business launched by pro Phil Gordon, a WPT winner, founder of the Put a Bad Beat on Cancer charity and the former host of the hit Bravo TV show Celebrity Poker Showdown. Gordon and his company have recently joined up with Zipidee, a distribution organization, to get their instructional videos out to a wider market. Phil and fellow poker pros Andy Bloch, Fred Funk and Jim Furyk are all the experts in the videos which are now available in download, streaming video format thanks to Zipidee…
WPT Chases Chinese Card Game
There is poker, then there is Chinese poker, and then there is Traktor. The World Poker Tour is making headway into China in terms of poker, but the game of choice they are chasing to play in the People’s Republic is actually a local game called Traktor, a traditional folk card game. WPT China has launched using this game, which is very different from poker…
Joe Hachem Final Tables at APPT Macau
While one World Series of Poker champion wasn’t able to come to the first ever live, legal poker tournament in China, another nearly won it. Jerry Yang, the current WSOP champ, was denied Visa access to China (thanks to his status as a political refuge) but Joe Hachem, the 2005 WSOP champ, had no similar problems. Joe finished in 8th place at the Asia-Pacific Poker Tour Macau…