Book Excerpt: From the forthcoming “Purposeful Practice in Poker” by Dr....
All poker players want to improve their skills and thus their chance of success. But what is the most effective way to go about such study? Reading the forthcoming Purposeful Practice for Poker is a...
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INTERVIEW: Catching up with Ryan Riess
Ryan Riess first came to prominence in the poker world in 2013 when he won the tournament every player dreams about: the WSOP Main Event. Ryan Riess (front, between Mark Newhouse and J.C. Tran) with...
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VIDEO: Party time at Lex Live
Lex Live is now in full swing here in Namur, Belgium, and last night saw the official welcome party take place in the Grand Casino bar. The evening kicked off with a friendly €25 sit and go featuring...
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WEEKLY ROUND-UP: Knockout Sunday, Lex Live and EPT Sochi, and 5-Card Fiction
Catch up on all of this week’s PokerStars Blog content… Select Sunday Major tourneys go PKO this week Lex Live festival kicks off in Belgium EPT takes over Sochi Charlie “JIZOINT” Combes gets back in...
View ArticleLEX LIVE: Meet Croaks, the Twitch troll turned Lex Veldhuis moderator
Everybody ready? Here we go, on the count of three. One…Two…Three… #FUCKCROAKS! Of all the people from Lex Veldhuis’s Twitch community who have travelled to Namur for Lex Live, only one of them has had...
View ArticleEPT Sochi 2019: Results
EPT Sochi Main Event Dates: March 25-29, 2019 Buy-in: 191,800₽ ($2,900 approx) Entries: 758 (inc. 195 re-entries) Prize pool: 145,500,000₽ ($2.21 million approx) POS NAME COUNTRY PRIZE RUBLES PRIZE USD...
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Lex Live: Big Day 1C, €37K up top
At the end of Day 1A of the €225 Lex Live Main Event, Lex Veldhuis said he’d be happy if this tournament got 500 runners. Little did he know, for when play wrapped up after last night’s final Day 1...
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LEX LIVE: The FU Friday Flip
While it’s serious business over in the €225 Main Event, last night at Lex Live was all about fun. The €60 FU Friday Flip was a side event most members of Lex Veldhuis’s Twitch community had circled...
View ArticleVIDEO: Take the Lex Live Pub Quiz!
Following on from last night’s FU Friday Flip tournament, there was more fun to be had today at Lex Live in Namur. Saturday afternoon saw Lex Veldhuis and his Twitch community take over the amazing...
View ArticleWatch Lex Live...Live!
Watch a live-streamed sit and go featuring Lex, Spraggy, Fintan, Felix, and four members of the Twitch community. After that there will be Main Event coverage. Yesterday we told you about the Lex Live...
View ArticleLex Veldhuis on his remarkable week
With both the Main Event and High Roller down to the one or two tables, we caught up with the man of the week, Lex Veldhuis, to gauge his reaction on what’s been an incredible festival. That’s almost...
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April Fools' Day: a holiday for bluffers
April Fools’ Day is a special kind of holiday, a day when it’s okay for you play jokes on your friends. You’re allowed — encouraged, even — to be deceitful, to lie, and as a result to profit at others’...
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Who'll win the Anniversary Sunday Million? (Part 1)
All eyes in the poker world will be on the PokerStars tables this month as we celebrate the 13th anniversary of the most revered online tournament of them all: the PokerStars Sunday Million. It takes...
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WEEKEND REVIEW: Finns dominate as Samuel “€urop€an” Vousden, Tomi "elmerixx"...
A recap of the major results from this weekend on PokerStars… • Sweden’s “42ayay” wins the Knockout Sunday Milly for $91K • Another weekend, another big win for “€urop€an” • “elmerixx” wins $2,100...
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