For many people the most incredible story to emerge from the IFP World Championships was not the performance of Nations Cup winners Germany, or that of Raul Mestre, who would win The Table to become the first official world poker champion. It was instead the story of Team Zynga, seven amateur players thrown into the […]
The International Federation of Poker (IFP) has announced details of Duplicate Poker, the Mind Sport variation of the game. Borrowing concepts from Duplicate Bridge, the poker equivalent creates the intriguing prospect of staging tournaments, played either by teams or individuals, in an environment free from the “luck of the draw” – the perfect way for […]
Spain woke up to a new era yesterday, a new leader to steer like-minded people through a new climate of prosperity. We refer of course not to new Prime Minister Mariano Rajoy, but of Raul Mestre, the first official IFP World Poker Champion, and new icon of Spanish poker. To be fair, Mestre (right) was […]
The IFP Nations Cup is now just days away making it high time we started looking through the teams to ask ourselves we think is going to win. While you can answer for yourself on the IFP Facebook page today, we’ve decided to start by making it a matter of money. Just which team has earned the […]
Among a cast of poker’s most notable champions, bracelet winners and personalities are a team jumping into the deep end of tournament poker. But having travelled half way across the world, what they lack in experience Team Zynga make up for in enthusiasm, and the all-round sense that at the very least it’s a trip […]