Poker News Archive

Julian Gardner: If you have to be known for something, he might as well be known for being the youngest player to ever win $1 million in the World Series of Poker.  This distinction belongs to Julian Gardner, a professional poker player from Manchester England.  You could say that poker playing is in Julian’s blood.  His father, Dave, is also a professional poker player.

Juha Helppi: There are a number of ways to know when you're no longer an amateur at any given thing.  You could start beating professionals in their own game.  He could start winning large sums of money.  You could meet pros in the industry and realize that you are just as good as they are.  If you are Juha Helppi, then you have experienced all three.  Starting out as an amateur poker player from Finland, Juha went on to make a name for himself by handily defeating poker pro Phil Gordon at his own game.

Rusty Mandap : In professional sports you often have former athletes are moving on into coaching positions, former coaches moving on into sports announcer positions, and the like.  What you don't often find is a professional athlete who is also a sports announcer, or a coach that moonlights as a player on another team.  One of the great things about poker is that you can do as Rusty Mandap has done, such as work as a tournament director and play poker professionally.  The best of both worlds.

John Hennigan: John is big on action.  He is so big on action that when he became too well-known in the world of pool hustlers he turned his focus to what was previously just a sideline for him, playing poker.  Like many a professional poker player, he must be glad he did.  To date John has brought in over $1 million in tournament winnings.  How's that for big action?

John Bonetti: Poker has had a bad rap over the years.  The image of smoke-filled poker rooms populated completely by gangsters and thugs and derelict husbands has thankfully gone the way of the dodo.  In addition to gaining new prosperity, popularity, and respect as a game poker has also become one of the faster growing professions in the world.  For someone like John Bonetti, poker was a way to make a livelihood when life was conspiring to stop him.

The LadbrokesPoker.com Nordic Challenge 2006 will be played on the 19th- 21st of May at the Reval Park Hotel & Casino, Tallinn, Estonia.

Dutch Boyd: Talk about your bad beats. If you know the name of Dutch Boyd, then you fall in the one of three categories.  Number one, you're his mother.  Number two, he saw his 12th place finish at in the 2003 World Series of Poker.  Number three, you think he stole your money.  If you are in group 3, and odds are good you were once a member of failed online poker room Poker Spot, the site founded by Dutch Boyd that folded without paying its customers back the money in their accounts.  Within new Web venture under way, Dutch is promising to make good on the debt.

Pick up the keys. Fire up the 6.2, V8 engine. Set the sat nav and pull off, lost in a world of surround sound. This spring,  Partypoker is giving away two 2007 Cadillac Escalade as first prizes in two tournaments on the 23rd April and the 21st May.

Interpoker has announced its WSOP Package.