Poker Player: Kathy Liebert
Kathy Liebert is one of the most successful female players of all time. She’s also one of the best NL tournament players currently on the pro circuit. She’s proven her skills at the table especially in the Game Show Network’s series The Battle of the Sexes. She beat out every male and female contestant to [...]
It’s a Tip, Not a Handout
When visiting Las Vegas, the culture of tipping can be pretty overwhelming, especially to those visiting from other countries. Tip someone for holding the door open, tip the dealer, tip room service, tip the lovely dancer. You need to have a pocket full of one dollar bills to go anywhere in the city. Sometimes it seems like too much, but as long as you understand how things work going in, you just deal with it and enjoy your day.
Carbon Poker Signs Shannon Elizabeth
This week, the USA-friendly online poker site Carbon Poker inked “American Pie” actress Shannon Elizabeth to become its newest sponsored pro. Elizabeth, who has briefly been sponsored by other online poker rooms, will now join the flagship site of the Merge Gaming Network.
Poker Player: Vince Van Patten
The terms “celebrity” and “star” get tossed around pretty loosely in the entertainment world. Anyone who’s made an appearance on television or made the news for any reason suddenly gets labeled a celebrity. Not so in the case of Vince Van Patten. Those terms couldn’t be more fitting for the man who was almost literally born into stardom and has shone brightly in various areas of entertainment including acting, tennis and as a commentator for the World Poker Tour. Van Patten was born in 1957 in Bellrose, N.Y., the son of actor Dick Van Patten and his wife Pat. He has two older brothers, James and Nels, and all three of them grew up in the thick of the entertainment business.
Poker Player: Daniel Alaei
Prior to 2004, Alaei was mainly a cash game player, often found playing $50-$100 both live and online, where he’s known as “steamraise.” Perhaps fueled by his $35K cash for 59th in his first ever World Series of Poker Main Event, Daniel started making more time for tournaments. In 2005, he once again cashed in the WSOP Main Event, this time taking $55K for the 140th place. At the 2007 WSOP, he cashed in five events, one of them a first place finish in the $5K No-Limit 2-7 Draw Lowball for $430K. A year later, he added five more WSOP cashes, including his third and best finish in the Main Event, a very respectable 25th which made him $333K.
Will Haydon earns first bracelet
Six-handed no-limit hold ‘em events have become extremely popular over the past few years. So, the World Series of Poker made sure to offer six-handed events at multiple buy-in levels in 2010, and so far it has been rewarded with large fields in each event. The $2,500 six-handed Event 26 recruited 1,245 players with Will Haydon emerging with the victory, winning the event for $630,031, one of the largest first-place prizes awarded this year.
Poker Player: Joe Cada
Like many young aspiring poker pros, Joe Cada realized that college wasn’t for him. The Shelby Township, MI native took the leap toward becoming a professional poker player shortly after beginning classes at Macomb Community College. And while most dropouts find the transition difficult, Cada’s decision to leave school turned out to be the most lucrative of his young life: a short time later he became a member of the 2009 World Series of Poker November Nine.
Poker Player: Joe Hachem
He stunned the world of poker after beating a record-breaking 5,618 player field in the World Series of Poker 2005, where he won a tremendous prize cash sum of $7,500,000. That’s right, we’re obviously having Joseph Hachemin mind, also known to some as Joe Hachem.
