Can anyone stop Bold Uundai? The 2013 ANC wouldn’t have been the same without Mongolia. Their uber-aggressive style eventually got found out, destroying their chances as a team, but such volatility helped them to pick up a few of the individual player awards. An example here is Mongolian captain Bold Uundai making a straight against […]
Everyone loves a flush draw In an unusual situation here where seats 2, 3 and 4 all flop a diamond flush draw (seat 2 also with top pair), we see five of the eight teams getting it all-in bad. Sometimes a flush draw, especially a nut flush draw as in seat 3, is just too […]
When monsters meet While we have already seen total team chip scores ranging by over 30000 chips in a single hand, here is an example of a range of just 400. Since players are completely isolated from their team mates and play at other tables, it is impossible to know by how much their own […]
In an age when the talents required to succeed as a poker player are often dismissed by elected officials as simple good fortune, there was nothing but reassuring news from Prague this week for the poker advocates, where the PokerStars European Poker Tour played out its last event of 2012. The bigger events were dominated […]
The PokerListings website features a fascinating interview this week with IFP president Anthony Holden. The article, written by Martin Harris, delves into various topics, including the background of IFP, it’s future aims and of course, which is the best poker film. Holden, as the author of the seminal Big Deal: A year as a professional poker player, […]