When Ivan Stokes first found online poker following a relatively successful chess career, he was what you might call a total newb. “I didn’t even know how to click the timebank on my computer. I didn’t know what a hotkey was. I didn’t know there were poker forums,” Stokes said. “I’d read Sklanksy’s Theory of […]

Over a decade ago, a younger Ivan Stokes, then a 15-year old international chess competitor, noticed that some of his older peers weren’t just spending their free time on delving deeper into chess, but they were actually making money by dabbling in poker. Stokes, now well over a decade into his poker playing career, recalls […]