Ladbrokes Poker Cruise 2006 - Trip Diary - Added: March 31st 2006
"Day One: (Ahem). Miss plane I am at Heathrow 21/2 hrs before we are meant to leave but I am not allowed on the plane because my passport is not machine-readable. Panic stations!" Read M.Weirs diary of the mishaps, missed rivers and missed nights sleep of 9 days aboard Ladbrokes Poker Cruise.
Ladbrokes Poker Cruise 2006 - Main Event - Added: March 31st 2006
Its 12:30 pm on January 15th, some miles south of Miami port and the 2006 Ladbrokes Poker Cruise main event is under starters orders. 330 fidgety players whove either paid the $5000 buy-in or qualified online at Ladbrokes sit twiddling their chips, eyeing each other with nervous excitement. Theres over a million dollars up for grabs, and everyone wants their slice of the cake.
Ladbrokes Poker Cruise 2006 - Trip Report - Added: March 31st 2006
The Ladbrokes Poker Cruise was one of the most enjoyable weeks I have had in years. Ok, I didn’t get off to a great start. I, um, missed the plane. Well, technically I didn’t miss it, because I was at the airport with two and a half hours to spare. They just wouldn’t let me on. Some nonsense about a passport...
Full Tilt Million Dollar Cash Game - Added: September 25th 2006
Behind drawn curtains on the temporarily converted top floor restaurant of Casino 50 a team of the worlds finest poker players including the likes of Phil Ivey, Chris Jesus Ferguson, Mike The Mouth Matusow, Tony G, Allen Cunningham, and Gus Hansen (among others) were about to take part in a televised cash game with a minimum buy-in of $100,000. And Whichpoker.coms Malcolm Weir had been invited along for a sneak preview.
Gold is Dealers Choice at WSOP Championship - Added: August 14th 2006
Whilst watching the 2006 WSOP Championship yesterday I felt a tapping at my shoulder. Well, perhaps it would be more accurate to say my elbow, as the tapping emanated from someone standing not more than 5ft2”.
WSOP 2006 Final Update - Added: August 24th 2006
Well I'm back. I survived! I survived not only three weeks in Vegas, but also what seemed like three weeks in the airport waiting for my plane after those gits back home screwed up airport security. Meanwhile the World Series of Poker is over for another year and once again a man with a ridiculously custom-made name is the "World Champion".
Dolly Parton - Three Weeks in Vegas - Added: August 25th 2006
Those of you who know your Doyle Brunsons from your Gay Waiters will know that when I say Dolly Parton I don’t mean to refer to the chest heavy country singer who, incidentally, is such a favourite of the aforementioned waiters.
Chip Licking - Added: August 25th 2006
I was sat a $1/$2 NL Hold’em cash game in Caesar’s pristine poker room last night when a mouthy English player licked his chips before moving in a stack of $100. It wasn’t the first strange thing he’d done but it was perhaps the least sensible. From Shepherds Bush in London, the 23-ish year-old was wearing a pink bandanna and sunglasses, and clearly thought rather a lot of himself.
Poker Streakiness - Added: August 25th 2006
If you ask most people about their worst losing sessions in poker there is one word that invariably pops into the conversation: tilt. Tilt, or rather the ability to avoid tilt, is one of the major factors that separates the good from the very good and the very good from the very successful.
Who is Jamie Gold? (And how did he do it?) - Added: August 25th 2006
Jamie Gold is well known to the poker world. At least he is now. But the 2006 World Series of Poker main-event champion and winner of $12 million was a relative unknown before the championship began. So who is he, really?
Jeff Madsen: WSOP Wunderkind - Added: August 25th 2006
Of all the amazing stories to come out of this year’s World Series the only one which can stand toe-to-toe with Jamie Gold’s main event win is the one scripted by Jeff Madsen, the youngest ever winner of a WSOP bracelet and the 2006 World Series of Poker Player of the Year.
High Stakes Poker – (Probably) the Best Poker Show on TV - Added: March 7th 2007
If you read the magazines, the blogs, the forums or the websites, or you listen to myriad of poker radio shows out there you will, by now, be well aware of GSN’s breakthrough poker show High Stakes Poker, currently in its third season and still airing to massive critical acclaim.