Spring Online Championship of Poker

The PokerStars Spring Championship of Online Poker (SCOOP) is back for 2010! It's one of the biggest-ever online poker tournament series, with millions of dollars in guaranteed prize pools up for grabs. There's a low, medium and high level buy-in for every tournament.So everyone can play...

It all starts today!

Check out the schedule or, if you don't have a PokerStars-account yet, you can sign up here...

The Life Of A Poker Pro

Some say it's the hardest way to make an easy living.
I say it's just the hardest way to make a living.
But salvation might be ahead.
One of the true legends of the game was willing to share some of his deep insights and provoking thoughts in this series of YouTube-videos...



Watch & learn!
(All episodes here...)

Epic Failure Approximately

Surprise, surprise... 

It ain't going well. 

About a month ago, NL200 cash games seems almost into reach. Now I'm struggling to maintain a healthy bankroll at NL100. It's not because of me, of course. It's just bad luck, rigged poker rooms, government conspiracies or that devilish doom switch permanently turned on. So I whine and I complain and I struggle just to stay break even...

Maybe the fish is me. 

Like some dude on Two Plus Two put it very poetically 

"You either got it or you don't".

Poker is a cheap hobby at worst. 

At best, I'm a marginal winner.

Game Over/ The End?

Well, almost but not just yet...

In a final attempt to become the greatest poker player in the history of the world (or just make some fucking money with it) I did some tweaking here and there. So I started swimming (like a fish, you see) and going to the gym regularly. A healthier and happier lifestyle. Then I cancelled my PokerVT-subscription. I learned a lot there. But clearly not enough. Blame the teacher. Time to move on. 

Yesterday I signed up for six months with DeucesCracked. Their videos are super-advanced and high-level. It's the final frontier. If I fail to improve my game significantly by the time autumn comes around, I'll quiet. Spend my bankroll on my one and only great talent: 

take the money and run.

Dreams about the beaches of Goa or the streets of Tokyo are never that far away.

(pic credits: someone at Two Plus Two,

have a look at Deuces Cracked here)

Why Full Tilt Is The Best Online Poker Room

Full Tilt Poker always had the smoothest poker client available. They were also the first to release a Mac client. Even if rakeback and Rush Poker cash games weren't enough reasons to choose for Full Tilt, they just got even better...

Full Tilt Poker introduced a few great new features:

• Rush Poker tournaments, now you can play tournaments even if you don't have all night. It's the fastest tournament action available anywhere. Join a large player pool and face a different table of opponents every hand. When you fold your hand, you'll immediately move to a new table for your next hand. As players are eliminated from the tournament, tables will become short-handed to keep up the pace, culminating in "standard" tournament mode at the final table. In theory, you could finish the complete World Series of Poker Main Event (with the same blind levels and stack sizes) in just 8 hours in a Rush Poker format.
• Steps Sit 'n Go's, starting for as little as $3.30, you can play your way through the steps to win a wide range of tournament entries and prizes.  
• The Full Tilt Store got a lot better. When you get tired of ordering Full Tilt hats and t-shirt you can use your Full Tilt Points to purchase Tournament Tickets for every available buy-in and tournament... Grinding out all those Double Points Happy Hours just got meaningful again.

So, playing at Full Tilt is definitely the most Ev+ activity you can find online. 

Play Online Poker Without A Visa Card

I hear it all the time:

"I would love to play poker online but I don't have a Visa card and/or I don't want to use my Visa card online"

Well, if you live in France or Belgium there's a simple and neat solution to this problem: Ticket Premium. This is a prepaid voucher or card that provides a fast, easy and secure method to fund your Full Tilt Poker or PokerStars account. You can purchase TICKET PREMIUM vouchers or cards from over 22,000 locations in France and 5,000 locations in Belgium. It's available at many places like supermarkets and gas stations. Check out their website for a location near to you. The cheapest card sells at only 25€. So really everyone can play online poker...

Mac Poker Software

Everything you need to know about playing poker on Mac Os X.
All the basic info in one place at macpokersoftware.com
It's the perfect starting place if you're new in the world of online poker and/or Mac...
Highly recommended!

From Busto To Robusto

'From Busto To Robusto' is a series of documentaries about online poker. It's a must see for everyone interested in online poker and/or grassroots filmmaking.

From the Robustothemovie.com website:

In 2003, an unknown amateur named Chris Moneymaker won $2.5M in the World Series of Poker Main Event: the world’s most prestigious poker tournament. Suddenly poker was everywhere. Moneymaker’s rags-to-riches victory quickly became the new American Dream. Overnight, the struggling online poker market exploded into a multi-billion dollar industry as millions of hopefuls around the world began logging on and anteing up with dreams of winning the next online poker fortune. These are their stories.

Episode 2 (about online poker pro good2cu) is online now.
Watch it at Robustothemovie.com