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The Tax Situation for Scandinavians

The top three in the Swedish Championships (from the left):
Joakim From, Magnus Holm, and Krister Hansson Since my last column, I have received a few questions about the fuzziness of the tax laws when it comes to poker, so let’s take a shot at making things a little bit clearer - at least for Denmark […]

Eight Habits of Unsuccessful Poker Players

I am not qualified to accurately outline the habits of winning poker players. I mean, how would I know? If you want to learn the secrets of successful poker, let me refer you instead to the works of Doyle Brunson, Stewart Reuben, and David Sklansky. They are all fine poker sages who have written with […]

Oh, No, Not a Bad-Beat Story

Unless you just landed on Earth from the planet Zog, the mere mention of those two horrible words “bad beat” will turn even the most unfit and overweight poker player into a sprinter of Olympic standard (unless, of course, you happen to be a fellow sickie who’s always searching for a sympathetic ear to hear […]

The 2006 World Heads-Up Finals

As in previous years at the World Heads-Up Finals, we lost an extraordinary number of big names in round one. To name just a few, Marcel Lüske, Dave Ulliott, Dave Colclough, Bruno Fitoussi, and Steve Vladar were out basically before the event had even started. Also, reigning champion Peter Gunnarson didn’t last long, and 2005 […]

Poker in the UK: Tournament Overload

As the British summer tries to get out of first gear, poker players are getting ready to miss the 72 yearly hours of uninterrupted sunshine as they head into the next series of ranking events held around the UK. And judging by this May’s set of tournaments held in a bunch so tight that even […]

Poker Boom in Germany: The Sleeping Lion is Awake

Finally - late, but not too late - the poker virus has also infected Germany. Three years ago, there were about 2,000 to 3,000 German online players. At the beginning of 2005, Eurosport started to broadcast EPT events, and a short time later, DSF (Deutsches Sportfernsehen) came up with some poker formats, as well. The […]

Belgian Raid

The main subject on the poker sites of the Netherlands these days was not a Dutch matter; armed policemen and federal investigators raided a poker tournament in Belgium. At about a 10-minute drive from the Dutch border, there were poker chips, cards, and a laptop confiscated for research. The most amazing part was - it […]

Making History

They laughed at me back in the day when I told everyone, “I’m playing for history, not for money. My big goal in life is to win more big-time poker tournaments than anyone else in history.”
“Miami” John Cernuto told me recently, “Phil, we were all playing for the money, and we thought you were nuts […]

How to Live the Life of the Freerolling Poker Professional

So, you want to be a pro. In the old days, that meant you had to win enough money at the poker table to pay the bills and have a good life. Today, the route to a happy professional career is to be a sponsored player.
It’s a piece of cake. All you have to do […]

Paddy’s Corner

Never Judge a Book by its Cover
In this day and age, poker players at all levels have access to endless amounts of information on how to play the game. Practically all the major books and poker gurus stress that it’s very important to study your opponents and to work out what sort of category they […]

Weird and Wonderful - Part 1

Definitely weird, but I’m not so sure about the wonderful - local rules, that is. Despite my threats not to attend the Tunica tournament this past January, I got roped in at the last minute. And while there, I came across a couple of rules that were mind-boggling, to say the least.
The tournament ran what […]

Ace Speaks Dutch

Watching the Big Guys Live
I have been a poker pro for more than seven years now, and I can say that it’s been a whole lot of fun. But sometimes, watching poker can be fun, too! For quite some time now, I have been the reporter at some fairly large European poker tournaments, and this […]

Julian Gardner: Modest, Unsung Tournament Star

It was late during day two of the 2004 World Series of Poker and I was standing in a corner behind a table in the back watching Julian Gardner, who might be the most talented poker player in the world, when all of the sudden a hoard of ESPN cameras appeared like a swarm of […]

Business Matters

Figures Up, But Game Off
Hilton chief David Michels was in top form when pre­senting the group’s [which includes Ladbrokes] results last month.
Michels normally insists on delivering his profit numbers at the crack of dawn on a Thursday, after a late-night poker session with friends. But this time around, his weekly poker game was cancelled for […]

Card Snaps

Bush Wins Poker Poll
A recent stateside survey asked people whom they would most want to ante-up against in a game of online poker. The American public selected President George W. Bush as their most-preferred celebrity poker competitor, followed closely by Oprah Winfrey and Bill Clinton. Just as well we are not all the same!
The Good […]

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