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Welcome mobsters, if you are reading this blog for the very first time, I thank you for your initial interest. I think that if you give it a little time, you will find something that will peak your interest.

I am a semi-pro poker player and an author. I am currently working on several projects for publication, and will be discussing them on occasion in this blog. If you are a fan then I warn you, from time to time there will be spoiler book ideas discussed.

Read more » Poker Tips, Bankroll Management and More (PART 8)

On Monday, the last 10 players returned to the Fallsview Casino Resort (Ontario, California) for the third and final day of play of World Poker Tour Fallsview Poker Classic Main Event.

After several hours of play, Day 1 chip leader Matthew Lapossie, from Canada, was the last man standing after defeating Dylan Wilkerson heads up for the title and a sweet $342,266 - the largest score of his poker career! Besides the prize money, he received a ticket to the WPT World Championship (will be played in Atlantic City in April, 2014).

Final table results:
1 Matthew Lapossie $342,266
2 Dylan Wilkerson $228,806
3 Jason James $147,090
4 Spiro Mikrogianakis $108,956
5 Josue Sauvageau $81,716
6 Howie Leung $65,373

Welcome mobsters, if you are reading this blog for the very first time, I thank you for your initial interest. I think that if you give it a little time, you will find something that will peak your interest.

I am a semi-pro poker player and an author. I am currently working on several projects for publication, and will be discussing them on occasion in this blog. If you are a fan then I warn you, from time to time there will be spoiler book ideas discussed.

Read more » Poker Tips, Bankroll Management and More (PART 7)

Team PokerStars Pro Liv Boeree has already won $130k in three major tournaments this year, and in total she has an incredible $2.4 million in live tournament earnings since 2007!

Being sponsored by the world's largest poker site and winning lots of money playing poker while getting to travel all over the globe sure sounds like a dream to many poker fans. Well, it sure is an incredible way of spending the short time we have on planet earth, however, according to Liv Boeree's latest blog, 'Great Expectations', it's not always a bed of roses to be a poker pro...

Read more » Liv Boeree: "Looking back on 2013, it was my worst poker year by far"

I have now been in Egypt for more than 1,5 week to play tennis... and also some poker. I made it to the semi-finals in the first tournament I played (tennis).

Read more » Tennis and Poker in Egypt

Sweden made skiing history last weekend at the Winter Olympics in Sochi, Russia, when it became the first country in 42 years to win both the men's and the women's 4x10-kilometer cross-country relays.

Read more » PokerStars SportStar Marcus Hellner Wins Olympic Gold Medal!

Imagine you're playing Pot-Limit Omaha freeroll. On the first hand you get some okay cards, with some decent draws. In your four hole cards, there's a suited connector, a couple of unsuited one-gappers and all of them are above 9.

But here's the problem. There's a player that's raising the maximum amount at every opportunity. He's in early position and raises the max when it comes to him, and then raises the max after someone re-raises in middle position.

Read more » Wolf-Sheep and Sheep Wolves Story time

Welcome mobsters, if you are reading this blog for the very first time, I thank you for your initial interest. I think that if you give it a little time, you will find something that will peak your interest.

I am a semi-pro poker player and an author. I am currently working on several projects for publication, and will be discussing them on occasion in this blog. If you are a fan then I warn you, from time to time there will be spoiler book ideas discussed.

Read more » Poker Tips, Bankroll Management and More (PART 6)

In case you missed it: World Poker Tour Alpha8 Johannesburg ($100,000 buy-in) kicked off last Friday and saw 10 entries (9 players + 1 rebuy by Antonio Esfandiari). On Saturday, the final 7 players return for the second day of play and, after several hours of thrilling poker, Daniel "Jungleman" Cates ended up as the last man standing for $500,000 in prize money along with the prestigious Alpha8 trophy and a 24k special edition pair of Monster headphones.

Besides Cates, Kinesh Pather received $275,000 for his runner-up finish and Jason Mercier took home $200,000 for finishing in third place. Jeff Gross, who was the chip leader for sometime with 4 remaining players, ended up as the bubble boy in 4th place.

Cards are in the air at the Emperors Palace in Johannesburg, South Africa. According to WPT's website, 7 players (Phil Ivey, Antonio Esfandiari, Dan Cates, Jeff Gross, Max Altergott, local player Kinesh Pather, and back-to-back Alpha8 champion Philipp Gruissem) have registered for the Day 1 of the $100,000 buy-in tournament.

Read more » WPT Alpha8 Johannesburg

A massive $270,00 Bad Beat Jackpot was awarded on Tuesday (February 11th) at Horseshoe Cincinnati's World Series of Poker room in Cincinnati, Ohio. Gary Costa (right side of the dealer in the picture) had his four of a kind 7's beaten by Michael Humphreys's (left side of the dealer) jack-high straight flush.

Read more » $270k Bad Beat Jackpot Hits in Ohio!

Welcome mobsters, if you are reading this blog for the very first time, I thank you for your initial interest. I think that if you give it a little time, you will find something that will peak your interest.

I am a semi-pro poker player and an author. I am currently working on several projects for publication, and will be discussing them on occasion in this blog. If you are a fan then I warn you, from time to time there will be spoiler book ideas discussed.

Read more » Poker Tips, Bankroll Management and More (PART 5)

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Read more » New Bingo Partner: £20 /$40 Free at CyberBingo!

The schedule for this summer's World Series of Poker has finally been released! The 45th annual WSOP has 65 events that will be played May 27 - July 14, 2014 at the Rio All-Suite Hotel and Casino in Las Vegas, and the highlight will of course be the Main Event with a massive $10,000,000 guaranteed for the winner.

The Aussie Millions AU$250,000 Challenge attracted 46 entries this year. Phil Ivey was one of the players who fired only one $250k bullet and he made it to Day 2 with 622k chips (7th place). He then made it to the eigh-handed final table with the second smallest stack (976k), but he played very well and (after several hours of play) made it to heads-up against Isaac Haxton (PokerStars Team Online). 

Read more » Aussie Millions: Phil Ivey Wins the $250,000 Challenge ($4,000,000)

Welcome mobsters, if you are reading this blog for the very first time, I thank you for your initial interest. I think that if you give it a little time, you will find something that will peak your interest.

I am a semi-pro poker player and an author. I am currently working on several projects for publication, and will be discussing them on occasion in this blog. If you are a fan then I warn you, from time to time there will be spoiler book ideas discussed.

Read more » Poker Tips, Bankroll Management and More (PART 4)

On Sunday, the final seven players returned for the 2014 Aussie Millions Main Event final table, where a massive AUD$1.6 million first prize was up for grabs! After nearly 12 hours of battle, Ami Barer of Canada was the last man standing after defeating fellow countryman Sorel Mizzi in what can be described as a record short heads-up battle.

Read more » 2014 Aussie Millions Main Event: Ami Barer is the Champion; Sorel Mizzi Finishes 2nd

I risked most of the money I had scraped together through Freerolls on a heads-up sit-and-go. Both of us put in 25¢ each, and the 50¢ goes to the winner.

I was playing against a guy called Jolep. He was from Russia, and I hoped he loved Mint Julep's as much as I did. Me and him could connect over that, talk about Julep's vs Mojito's, and it'd be a fun game.And then it wasn't. And then it took forever and it was miserable and it was the worst poker experience I've ever had in my entire life.

Read more » Blocking the Hail Mary

On January 17, 2014, a former Oklahoma City bookie was sentenced to 27 months in a federal prison for illegal gambling and money laundering. Teddy Mitchell pleaded guilty in July last year to hosting illegal poker games in his house and running a Costa Rica-based Internet business that accepted illegal sports bets.

Read more » Oklahoma City Bookie Speaks Out on His Wife's Murder

We are very happy to announce that we will be running a BankrollMob exclusive leaderboard series with Party Poker between February 10th and March 9th!

This event holds six Daily T$25 Freerolls* (Tournament Dollars). As always, your winnings from the daily freerolls will not only be credited to your Party Poker account but also count as points towards the leaderboard.

The top 30 leaderboard finishers will get their share of an additional T$1,500* in cash prizes. The top 200 leaderboard finishers will get an entry to an exclusive T$1,500* Freeroll.

Click here for more information and how to register for the exclusive Party Poker Leaderboard!

If you're not already a member at Party Poker, click here and checkout all our exclusive Party Poker offers!

*About Tournament Dollars (T$)
The prize money in this Leaderboard is awarded in Tournament Dollars that will be credited to your Party Poker account once the race is completed. They can only be used for buy-in to tournaments at Party Poker. 

Another day of play has come to an end at Crown Casino in Melbourne, Australia. A field of 668 entrants has been narrowed down to 36 players after three days of intensive play. The player with the largest stack heading into Day 4 is Sal Fazzino of Australia. Fazzino, who's been around the live scene for several years but still has no major score to his name, took the chip lead in the last hand of the day...

Read more » Aussie Millions Main Event: Day 3 is Over! Many Poker Stars Left in the Competition!

KING 5 News reported on Tuesday evening that the state of Washington had busted a 25-year-old penny-ante pinochle game at a senior center in Snohomish, a city in northwest Washington with a population of about 9,000.

Read more » Washington State Shuts Down Senior Center's Card Game For Pennies

Finland wins 3-2 against Bulgaria! Nieminen won both his matches and also his doubles with Henri Kontinen, who is focusing only on doubles. Anyhow, it was a great week to practice with these guys and I had a lot of fun off the court as well!

Read more » Davis Cup, Travelling and Success at Poker!

Day 3 of the 2014 Aussie Millions Main Event is currently on 75-minute dinner break. 48 players of 668 entrants will return after the break and play two more levels before calling it a day. There are still a few big names left in the competition, including Jason Mercier (picture - 250k chips) and Scott Seiver (600k chips), and all of the remaining players are now guaranteed to take home at least AUD$20,000 - with the chance of going all the way to the title and the AUD$1.6 million first place prize!

We will be back with a Day 3 recap in a few hours. Stay tuned!

Everyone's favourite Swede Viktor "Isildur1" Blom has had a massive upswing in the last couple of weeks. According to online-tracking site highstakesdb, over a $1 from his winnings come from heads-up matches (between January 14-17) against PokstflopAction. Blom is the biggest winner online this year with a total profit of $2,154,113 (48,517 hands)!

In 2013, he was up over 5 million dollars during 3 incredible winning streaks. It will be interesting to see if he can beat that "record" this year - without losing most of it (he "only" bagged up a $542k profit in 2013 after a massive downswing that started in October).