New York City Underground Poker

It’s official, the two giants of the online poker world, PokerStars and FullTiltPoker have pulled out of the United States.  Their new official links are www.pokerstars.eu and www.fulltiltpoker.co.uk, but do not not expect to be able to play if you’re based out of the US (unless you do some shady IP masking / VPN usage). [...]

Gah.  Many of you might have seen this already, but the DOJ has seized certain online poker sites including pokerstars and fulltilt.  If you click the banners ads on this site you will likely be taken to a page that looks like this: I guess the one reminder is that as far as we all [...]

I woke up, made some eggs and transferred $15,000 out of my full tilt poker account.  Just your usual Tuesday morning. Later that afternoon I made my way over to the game, a luxury building with more doormen than any building should ever have.  As I said, I’ve been to games all over the city [...]

After a particularly good summer (I really do plan to write about it, but underground poker is much more fun than live and online tournaments) I decided to go to a game I’d been hearing a LOT about.  The game – 10/25 no limit, which is a little (or maybe a lot…) bigger than I [...]

I know I haven’t been updating much and owe you posts on some of the latest games and even my trip to Europe to play, but I’ve been working on big things here… Manhattan Poker Rooms is now offering rakeback, including special members only rake races and freerolls at rakeback.manhattanpokerrooms.com! If you play online poker [...]

This is a continuation of my posts on the 2009 World Series of Poker (before I got sidetracked on the Pokerstars Big Game and diatribes on safe poker). So I settled in for a weekend of online satellites to the WSOP. Full Tilt Poker and PokerStars were both running massive qualifiers with huge guarantees. This [...]

At least once a week I get an email asking whether underground poker rooms are safe to play in, and frankly that is a really good question to ask before you go play in one of these. When the poker boom began after Moneymaker won the World Series poker rooms began sprouting up all over [...]

Somewhat off-topic post here, but it seemed worth writing about.  THis wek launched the first week of The Pokerstars Big Game.  With the NYC poker games being a little slow these days (everyone being in Las Vegas for the WSOP), I’ve been spending my time playing more online poker and watch trashy poker tv. This [...]

Beginning a few months before the WSOP every year all the major online poker sites begin running satellites to the Main Event. In 2009 Full Tilt Poker even offered satellites to some of the smaller events, which was a brilliant marketing move in my opinion. The great thing about these satellites is that online poker [...]

Those of you who have quit your job to play poker for a living know that your friends have one of two reactions. Half the friends think it is the coolest idea ever and want to tell everyone they know that you have become a “professional poker player.” The other half, probably like your parents, [...]