The poker world has been taken over by drama and controversy in recent months, much of it involving Matt Berkey, a professional poker player and the founder of the “Solve for Why” poker academy. Matt Berkey has been a professional poker player since the days of the Moneymaker Boom, and has thrived in the cash game streets while also showing some solid performances in the tournament circuit. Despite showing consistently solid results at the felt, Matt has often caused a stir with his loose playing style, and has even caused the likes of Doug Polk and Nik Airball to call him a fraud. So who is M ..read more

The World Poker Tour continues its journey around the world in an action-filled 2024, with the WPT Choctaw Festival now well underway. In a few days, on May 3, hundreds of extra players will flock to Durant, Oklahoma, to join the WPT Choctaw Championship event at the Choctaw Casino & Resort. The 9th edition of this particular WPT Main Tour event is expected to be a big one, although it may not quite outmatch the inaugural WPT Choctaw, which saw 1,175 entries made for a $4,000,000 prize pool. Last year, WPT Choctaw Championship had 612 entries, with poker pro Jared Jaffe taking home $400,74 ..read more

There is still time to claim your seat in the final day of PartyPoker’s Big Quarter tournament, but the time to act is now! With the grand finale taking place on May 5, you only have a few more days left to give it a try. In case you’ve missed it, Big Quarter is an interesting concept put together by PartyPoker. This is a single tournament with $200,000 guaranteed, with a buy-in of just $11. To meet the guarantee and give players plenty of opportunity to get involved, the operator has spread the tournament over the course of 90 days. There have been dozens of ..read more

If you want to increase your edge at the tables even further, make sure to check the Pokercoaching training site. … In this article, I’ll discuss tournament stacks and adjustments you need to make based on the stack size. This is actually one of the easier things you can fix in your game, but also one of the more common mistakes players make. This lesson was inspired by a few questions I got from one of my students after he made a deep run in a tournament. Some of these questions were: What adjustments to make throughout the tournament as stack sizes shrink? What adjustments to make ..read more

There used to be a time when poker tournaments were split into freezeout and rebuy events, with most major championship events played as freezeouts. This meant each player gets exactly one bullet in a particular tournament. For that reason, all the players were forced to preserve their chips and cover their stacks, as the risk of elimination was very real. Fast forward to today, and most live poker tournaments allow re-entries, with many allowing an unlimited number of re-entries and some only offering one or one per starting flight. For the top pros, this means they can have multiple chances ..read more

You've all surely heard of Texas Hold'em, not referring to Beyonce's latest track here, but the classic and timeless game where you sit around a table, each player receiving two private cards, and then the first three community cards dealt face-up. But what happens if you play online and can't bluff at the table or read your opponents' facial expressions or body language? Let's dive into the ever-evolving and fast-paced world of online betting and the psychology behind it. 1 Excellent MTT fundaments and advanced topics Great structure to keep improving your game Interactive learning approac ..read more

Daniel Negreanu has once again stirred up a discussion in the poker space, posting on his Twitter that “the summer is WSOP time” and “side events will never count; it’s all WSOP.” The gist of Kid Poker’s message was that, for him, the World Series of Poker is the only game in town, and all events hosted by other casinos around the same time simply can’t compare. Those who followed Negreanu’s career probably know that he’s always been a big WSOP fan, playing big schedules and often sharing his summer exploits with his fans via his YouTube vlog. So, the sentiment hardly comes as a surp ..read more

Tag Team poker has been around for a while, and although it’ll never become a mainstream variation, it is undoubtedly one of the most entertaining formats kicking about. You don’t have to take our word for it, though. 888poker has set out to prove the point, setting up Tag Team home games, pairing up their Team Pro members with amateurs, and letting chips fall where they may. The operator is kicking things off with a round of games featuring big-name players like Ian Simpson and Vivi Saliba on the pro side of things and ‘JaackMaate’ and his buddies representing the amateurs. Each of the f ..read more

GGPoker and WPT Global are among the youngest of all the major poker sites out there, but find themselves at different stages of their evolution. In just several short years, GGPoker has ascended to the very top, being the biggest online poker site in the world today by quite a margin. WPT Global, on the other hand, remains one of the smaller online poker sites, but one that offers players who join it a lot of value through various venues. If you don’t quite know how these two poker rooms compare, we have decided to help you out and create a detailed comparison for your benefit. We compared GG ..read more

Compared by sheer size, GGPoker and 888poker might as well be two completely different things, as the former eclipses the latter many times over. However, size is far from only thing that matters when it comes to poker operators, and both GGPoker and 888poker offer many reasons for players to join and regularly play on the platforms. If you are not sure how to decide between these two operators, and would like some more information, you have come to the right place. We have compared GGPoker vs 888poker in all important aspects in order to try and discover which of these online poker sites is b ..read more