Entries by joe

ESTONIA FIRST TO BOOK PLACE AT 2013 ENC

The 2013 European Nations Cup will have a distinctly central European feel to it next spring following the qualifying event in Vienna, Austria this past weekend. In a slightly changed format, six teams advanced to the finals in London, led by winners of the qualifying event, Estonia, who narrowly claimed top spot against neighbors Lithuania. The Estonian […]

SHANE WARNE ON CRICKET, POKER AND BEATING BOTH

A cricket magazine might not be the first place you’d expect to see a report of the World Series of Poker, but when the subject matter is Shane Warne it’s perhaps not quite as surprising. To those who don’t follow cricket, Warne is regarded as one of the greatest bowlers in the history of the […]

POKER AUTHOR LOU KRIEGER DIES

Krieger was something of an original among poker writers in the sense that he was covering the game in the days before the internet boom which brought millions of new players to the poker tables. A columnist for Card Player magazine between 2001 and 2005, Krieger also wrote 11 poker books, most notably Poker for […]

WILL POKER PLAYERS SWAY THE ELECTION?

The Poker Players Alliance (PPA) is one of the game’s key lobby groups in the United States, having campaigned for several years for the rights of the country’s several million poker players to play the game they love without committing a criminal office. This week the PPA published the results of its survey of poker […]

BIT PART FOR POKER AUTHORS IN KEY RULING

They were instrumental in introducing poker to thousands of players, even before the internet changed the game forever. Now it seems three of poker’s most esteemed authors have played a not insignificant part in one of the most important legal rulings in the game’s history. Earlier this month Senior US District Judge Jack B Weinstein […]