This week, ‘Poker After Dark’ is running what they are calling a “Rail Heaven” cash game. Blinds are $200/$400, and the players assembled are veritable who’s who of poker heavyweights: Phil Ivey, Tom “Durrrr” …

Phil Ivey currently has more than 50% of the chips in play 3-handed in the $2500 Omaha/7 Card Stud 8-or-better tournament (with Carlos Mortensen) and is also 15/22 in the Pot Limit Omaha 8-or-bett tournament.
This …

Ho-hum.  Phil Ivey won a bracelet last night.  La-di-da.
Yawn.
Actually, I am understating things just a little bit.  Despite a first prize of $95k, there was a lot more drama going on.  Some have speculated that …

For the first time since February a couple of new “Life of Ivey” segment have appeared on PokerRoad, just in time for the World Series.  Let’s hope this is a regular occurrence, throughout the summer.
The …

Someone over at 2+2 asked about the “certain hands that go down in poker folklore and solidify a player’s reputation… I would be interested to hear [about] amazing hands by great players, like Ungar, Ivey, etc.”. …

PokerNews, in their continuing series of off-beat Top 10 lists, comes through again with another gem: Top 10 Famous Final Table Bubbles.  I’ve written about the woes of “Seventhboking” before, my favourite delightfully-cruel bit of …

Televised poker is a funny thing. Usually we viewers are witness to that part of the tournament where the payouts are the greatest, which adds inherent drama to the proceedings. The tradeoff, though, is that …

This is such a weird thing to consider newsworthy, but Phil Ivey chimed in on the new PokerRoad forums, recently, after Barry Greenstein posted a hand he played — or rather, didn’t — against Daniel …

If I was going to buy stock in one poker player, right now, it would be Tom “Durrrr” (I never know how many ‘r’s to put in there) Dwan. The 21-year old is already …