This rating is by no means the main rating out there, this is mere PokerDiscover edition. After watching these five movies you will get a sense of what poker really is and will get some ideas to think on along with big wave of emotions.
People who only start playing poker get to the thought that the poker world and the world of other people aren’t similar.
Poker players are ordinary people. They also make mistakes at the poker tables and in their everyday life. There are more of those who are trying to get financial success, and sometimes they try to get it using the means that are not lawful. Tens of these cases got poker players to the court. We will tell you about five players who got in jail during recent years.
Success in poker depends not just on the skill of the player and the luck he’s got. It is also influenced by his inner atmosphere and the conditions of his surroundings. Girlfriends and wives who go long with poker players are able to create this comfortable environment and help reaching a maximal success. PokerDiscover decided to advise you on how to better understand your man and come to a better understanding of each other.
Poker community got used to a constant stream of news and extraordinary accidents and events that take place at live tournaments and elsewhere. Multi-million army of poker players always had people who were capable of making wonderful things, and the game itself is full of luck so it is able to create an amazing story. We’ve gathered info of five players who surprised us the most in 2017.
PokerStars live activities have new changes before the start of the New Year. After announcing the new super tournament in far 2019 - PokerStars Players NL Hold’em Championship (PSPC), Reed Spade got some more news - The European Poker Tour (EPT) will be back in 2018!
2017 comes to an end. Now is the time to make different rating to sum up the year. We’ve decided to make the Pokerdiscover rating of the best live players in 2017.
Two years ago the rivalry between the current leader of online poker industry PokerStars and the room that was in the lead previously has begun, and now it takes over live poker as well. Currently, those two major online poker rooms that make series all over the world.
The opinion that a new poker boom awaits in Asia is something that everyone seem to be agreed upon. Live poker series organizers think so as well.
Poker players belong to two categories: online players and live players - and there is a huge difference between them. The difference is so huge, world class players who win thousands of dollars in live poker fail to beat even NL100 online.
Back in summer this year Matt Kirk told poker community about his conflict with the owner of King’s Casino Leon Tsoukernik about the debt of $2,000,000 they’ve got after playing together in Aria on May, 27 2017. Matt filed a lawsuit but it was qualified by a judge as a “card debt with no legal force”, or - long story short - made guys figure this out himself. Certainly, the Australian wasn’t too happy about the decision so he insisted on the money back.
On October, 26 ICO (fundraising) for a quite interesting blockchain project has started. It is a virtual poker room Cash Poker Pro from Russian-speaking developers. They plan on raising $30,000,000 till November, 18th with most of the means going for the needs of marketing (with full-scale ad campaign starting next year) and further development.
Most articles dedicated to significant others of the top poker players or women in poker in general tell about the same things: wives/girlfriends of the middle-aged established players (Negreanu, Helmuth, Ivey etc.), or same old list of Jennifer Tilly, Vanessa Selbst, Liv Boeree, Jennifer Harman etc.
This is a rather unexpected occasion as temporary center of online high stakes world is now PartyPoker. The private invitational PLO cash game gathered round such players like Viktor Blom, Leon Tsoukernik, Sam Trickett, Luke Schwartz, Matt Kirk and others. The latter showed and proved for another time that he is able to become (if not already) a new Isildur!
On October, 1st 2017 a horrible event happened in Las Vegas, 59 people were murdered and 500 more got different injuries. “King of Instagram” himself - Dan Bilzerian was in the middle of the event. He published a short video, and crazy mass media rushed to him after he did that.
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