Poker news tagged with 'interview'

When Phil Ivey was just new to the world of poker, his humble nature and insatiable thirst to learn about the game endeared him to several other poker pros. He became fast friends with Barry Greenstein, who then introduced the budding Ivey to the "Big Game" in Las Vegas. Impressed by the lifestyle that Greenstein was living, Ivey wanted to enjoy the same level of success, and went on to build an impressive portfolio in both tournament and cash game play that we see today.

Read more » Phil Ivey gets interviewed by Barry Greenstein on Mental Fitness and How He Got So Great at Poker

Travis "DramaticDegen" Darroch of partypoker Team Online turned a humble $22 into a six-figure sum on November 17th, and this time the poker site interviewed the Canadian poker pro about his latest big windfall from the $1M GTD partypoker MILLION.

Darroch managed to record the entire event, including the deal-making, on his Twitch channel, which was viewed live by dozens of his fans and followers. partypoker interviewed him and asked a few questions about his recent good form, his superb victory, and for some tips for partypoker players wanting to follow in his footsteps.

Read more » Interview with Travis "DramaticDegen" Darroch on his $106K score from a $22 buy-in at partypoker MILLION

Sportbladet Poker, the poker section of Aftonbladet - Sweden's biggest newspaper, recently met up with Daniel Negreanu at Arts Hotel (during EPT Barcelona) for an interview. In the interview, Daniel talked about getting his heart broken and meeting his new girlfriend, Marissa Rachelle Rodney - a hairstylist in Las Vegas.

Read more » Daniel Negreanu's New Girlfriend

Curious to know what it's like to win millions of dollars playing poker and to be sponsored by the world's largest poker site? You can stop wondering because BankrollMob is now giving you the unique opportunity to ask five members of Team PokerStars Pro (Daniel Negreanu, Barry Greenstein, Liv Boeree, Jason Mercier and Jonathan Duhamel) yourself!

Post your questions below (no more than 3 questions per pro) by no later than Friday, August 24th. We will then select 5 questions for each pro and forward them to PokerStars.

Here are some questions already asked

Curious to know what it's like to win millions of dollars playing poker and to be sponsored by the world's largest poker site? You can stop wondering because BankrollMob is now giving you the unique opportunity to ask five members of Team PokerStars Pro (Daniel Negreanu, Barry Greenstein, Liv Boeree, Jason Mercier and Jonathan Duhamel) yourself!

Post your questions below (no more than 3 questions per pro) by no later than Friday, August 15th. We will then select 5 questions for each pro and forward them to PokerStars. 

James Akenhead, 30, was living the poker dream back in 2009. He finished 9th in the WSOP Main Event for $1.2 million, then he followed that up by winning Full Tilt Poker Million VIII for another $500k to end the year just under $2m plus. He was the hottest name in UK poker at that time, and many predicted that he would have a long and successfull poker career.

Read more » The successful pro who quit poker for a full-time job

It's not very often that Phil Ivey has the time or wants to sit down for a "proper interview". In fact, it took about 3 years until WSOP's Nollan Dalla was invited over to Ivey's private trailer in the parking lot aside the mammoth tournament area at the Rio for a seocnd one-on-one interview with the world's best poker player.

In the interview, Phil said that he's happy to have made it to 5 final tables in two weeks at the 2012 WSOP but that he's never satisfied with coming second in a tournament.

No, I don't get any satisfaction from second place at all. It's all about winning.

Read more » Interview with Phil Ivey

Some good news for all you "Isildur1" fans out there. In an interview with a Swedish poker magazine, Viktor Blom, 21, said that he will go to Las Vegas and play his first-ever World Series of Poker event on Tuesday next week.

"I will go there for the NLHE heads-up tournament with $10,000 buy-in and then I try to play as many tournaments as possible until the main event has come to an end. I'm really looking forward to it. It will be really fun! I feel really happy that I get the chance of going there, but it sucks that it's during the summer."

In a brand new interview, Viktor "Isildur1" Blom talks about his two SCOOP titles, his very first World Series of Poker this year, how the high-stakes scene online has been after Black Friday, and more.

Viktor Blom on...

his very first WSOP this year
I'm really looking forward to going to Las Vegas, playing in the Main Event, and just experiencing what it's like to be there. I haven't quite decided which events I'm definitely going to play yet, but I'm under pressure to decide. I talked to a lot of other players in Monte Carlo recently about what it's like over there and it sounds full on, so it will be cool to actually experience it myself.

Read more » Viktor Blom in new interview about his SCOOP titles, his first WSOP, and more!

In a recent interview with QuadJack's Poker Radio, Phil Hellmuth, 11-time WSOP Bracelet winner, talked about the drug addiction many famous poker players have/have had.

"There's a drug, I don't know the name of it, but it's something like speed. I'm talking about a really heavy drug. Many poker players have taken this drug in the past 10 years. Almost all players who took this drug has won 1 or 2 million dollars over a 6-8 month period. But then the effect of the drug stopped working, which left many of them with a drug addiction. I smoked weed about 25 years ago or something like that. But I'm not a person who's into drugs at all."

Read more » Phil Hellmuth: "Many poker players have taken drugs"

According to an interview with the chairman of Nevada Gaming Control Board, we might see a legislation of online poker in USA already this year. The chairman, Mark Lipparelli, says that a new gaming license system might get the first official applications within a few months time. This would mean that gambling sites could be running legally in some states already this year. The first state to get a license, however, will most likely be Nevada.

In the interview, Lipparelli also talked in detail how the procedure for applying gambling sites would work. Besides the application itself, this procedure includes other things such as a real technical evaluation of the applicant's products to make sure that only serious, well-functioning sites get the license.

After almost a year of total silence, Full Tilt Poker's CEO Ray Bitar has finally let a news site interview him. In the interview, which was released yesterday, Bitar talks about, for example, how his life has drastically changed since last April (Black Friday) and why he the rest of Full Tilt's owners haven't made any statements. Below is the full interview with Ray Bitar: 

Ray, there has been public outrage surrounding the fact that you have been silent since the Black Friday shutdown and indictments. Can you say why you haven't made any public statements?

Read more » Full Tilt Poker CEO Ray Bitar Apologizes to the Poker World

Jens "Jeans89" Kyllönen from Finland is on everyone's lips lately (well, at least the ones who follow the online high stakes scene). Kyllönen has been dominating PokerStars' nosebleed table this year and he's up about $1,7 million so far, which gives him a lead of about $600k over the second biggest winner.

Yesterday, highstakesdb.com posted a quite interesting interview with Jens Kyllönen. Below you read the interview in its full version:

Going way back, do you remember how you first heard about poker and when you started playing the game first time? Did you start playing online or live and what stakes? Did you realize quickly that you had an eye for the game?

Read more » High Stakes: Interview with the Finnish poker phenomena Jens "Jeans89" Kyllönen

Barry Greenstein is not only known for being an extremely good and successful poker player, but also for being one of the poker world's most generous players. In fact, Greenstein has received the nickname '"The Robin Hood of Poker" thanks to all the money he has donated to charity, mainly to charities for children, throughout the years. In total, he has won over $7 million dollars in tournaments and probably even more in cash games, so one can only imagine how much money he has donated.

Read more » Greenstein lives and breathes poker during the WSOP

After almost 5 months of complete silence, Viktor Blom has finally done his second interview since he reveled himself as 'Isildur1' - the mystery swede that the whole poker world has been talking about since 2009. In the interview, Blom speaks out about his aggressive style of playing poker, his future plans and the rumors claiming that he's broke.

Viktor Blom, 20, is known to be an aggressive, unafraid poker player who can win and lose huge amounts of money in no-time. In fact he was involved in 4 of the 5 biggest pots in online history when he played at Full Tilt Poker.

"I have an extremely aggressive style of playing poker. I like to put pressure on my opponents," says Blom and continues...

"I once lost almost $4.7 million in a session that only lasted a few hours.

Read more » Viktor Blom: "I once lost almost $4.7 million in a session that only lasted a few hours"

In a recent interview, Daniel "jungleman12" Cates, 21, tells the story about the tough time 3 years ago when he had to work at McDonalds to finance his poker and how he turned around the negative trend and became one of the world's best poker players. Cates also reveals 2 players he's afraid of playing No Limit Hold'em against.

Read more » Daniel "jungleman12" Cates's tough road to become a winner

In a brand new interview with Gus Hansen, he speaks out about, for example, the millions he has lost in the past 2 years, how he managed to come back and become a big winner again, and the rumors claiming that he's dating Caroline Wozniacki (the world's best female tennis player).

Read more » Gus Hansen interview: "Everyone thinks I'm a maniac"

Ever wondered what your life would be like if you had made millions of dollars from playing poker and got to travel around the world and play in the biggest tournaments for free? No need to speculate anymore! We are now giving you a unique opportunity to get answers to your questions from 3 of the hottest names in the poker world - PokerStars Pros Vanessa Rousso, Daniel Negreanu and Jonathan Duhamel (2010 WSOP Main Event winner).

Read more » BankrollMob Exclusive: Ask questions to Daniel Negreanu, Jonathan Duhamel & Vanessa Rousso

It's not a secret that Phil Hellmuth has a big problem with his temper when playing poker. Even though Phil has a huge bankroll and probably seen it all when it comes to bad beats, he still can't control his feelings after so many years of experience. For quite some time now many of the world's best poker players have been trying to help Phil (in many different ways) to deal with his temper - but most of them have given up. Tony G, however, refuses to give up and in a recent video interview he said the following about his dear friend Phil Hellmuth. 

"Phil is a very nice person away from the poker table. But at the poker table he's mentally unstable and needs professional help", Tony G told the interviewer.

"He has gotten one of those headshrinkers to help him now, and I also try to help him. One just feel like taking care of Phil. I lead him, just like my dog.

He's one of the richest and most successful poker players in the world, he masters all the major poker games, he's as good at playing tournaments as cash games - both live and online. Phil Ivey is the ultimate poker player and probably also the most famous one in the world right now.

So what are the downsides of being rich and famous in the poker world? Well, it doesn't seem to be a walk in the park at all times. At the 2010 WSOP for example, Phil Ivey had to hire a bodyguard because people didn't let him be alone for 1 single minute.

Read more » Phil Ivey hired a bodyguard at the 2010 WSOP

The BankrollMob & Party Poker WSOP promotion has ended. Around 1500 players managed to "scratch their way" via our daily WSOP scratch game, into one of the daily qualifiers. From the daily qualifiers, 162 players qualified to our "Main WSOP Tournament" which was played yesterday, June 6th.

Top 20 prizes were as follows:

• 1st - WSOP Package worth $14,000
• 2nd-5th - $640 Party Million tournament ticket
• 6th-10th - $215 $300K Guaranteed tournament ticket
• 11th-15th - Super Weekday tournament ticket
• 16th-20th - $70 MM qualifier tournament ticket

The last player standing was Manuela from Bremen, Germany. Also known as Mama63 on BankrollMob. She won the $14,000 WSOP ticket and will be going to Las Vegas soon for the WSOP Main Event.

We asked Manuela a few questions just minutes after she won the tournament, here are the answers as translated from German...Read more » Interview with BRM's WSOP Ticket Winner + Video from Final Table

Mike Matusow didn't get his nickname "The Mouth" for nothing. If he has something on his mind, no matter what it might be, you can bet on it that he will speak out loud. In a recent radio interview, Mike Matusow said that he cant understand why people want to watch a maniac/idiot like Isildur1 playing poker. Matusow said that he would like to play against Isildur1 and crush him at the limits he's playing - "not fucking nosebleed stakes".

Its not hard to understand that Mike Matusow don't think much of the mysterious swede as poker player, even though he used to play high stakes online like a maniac back in the days when he had the bankroll to do so. Maybe he's just angry because Isildur1 got so much attention and he didn't? Well, he shouldn't be angry. I mean, he never been even close to as successful as Isildur1 online. His live career is a different story though.

Brian Hastings became one of the most talked about poker players after that he won over $4 million dollars in one single session against the unknown Swede "Isildur1." The win is the biggest someone has ever had in a single session, so of course, it wasn't so strange that he ended up in almost all poker headlines around the globe.

After the huge win, one could read in his blog about how happy and chocked he was after winning so much money. Now, a few days later, he has made his first big interview. In this interview one can read that he could never see this happening when he started playing against "Isildur1" that day and that he feels very fortunate to be were he is right now, and even though he played very well, luck was a major factor, according to himself. Brian Hastings says that he have received a lot of great feedback from players and friends after the big win, which he is really thankful for.

Its also mentioned in the interview that according to some rumors, a few players had a piece of his big win. However that was nothing he wanted to leave out any details about. And when he was asked about a possible comeback from "Isiludur1", he answered that he's a great player and that he for sure will be back at the high stakes in a near future.

Patrik Antonius is the Finnish poker pro that few players dare to play against at the moment. He grew up in a poor family and went on to become a model a tennis player and later on one of the most respected poker players online. In a Swedish poker magazine he is telling the story about his life, how he went from poor to rich and living the good life.Read more » Interview with Patrik Antonius