
For 1,000 hours over 100 consecutive days, Lukas ‘RobinPoker’ Robinson streamed online poker on Twitch. Think about that for a moment. That’s ten hours a day glued to your computer. Ten hours a day spent inside. Ten hours a day where your only respite from being on camera is the hourly five-minute bathroom breaks.
In honor of International Women’s Day, PocketFives is shining the light on some of the women in poker who have made poker their lives and their careers and are an integral part of moving the game to new heights. If you are a poker fan in Latin America, then there’s a very good chance you […]
For weeks now, the worldwide Online Poker Rankings have been a tight-knit crew. Brunno ‘bbotteon’ Botteon has held down the top spot for the past eight weeks and well-known names like Ivan ‘zufo16’ Zufic, Mike ‘SirWatts’ Watson, and Bert ‘girafganger7’ Stevens have occupied their own positions inside the Top 5.
Vivian Saliba is learning a new game. It’s unlike her beloved Pot Limit Omaha, No Limit Hold’em, or any other that she’s played. It’s the Twitch game and she’s already finding it as challenging and rewarding as any card game in her arsenal.
The obsession with competition, dedication to improvement, and doing what it takes to be the best. These are just some of the themes on display in Netflix’s new binge-worthy hit The Queen’s Gambit, the mini-series that depicts a behind-the-scenes look at the inner workings of the chess world – a world, it turns out, that […]
Daniel Negreanu will not be livestreaming on Twitch for the foreseeable future. On Sunday, the six-time World Series of Poker bracelet winner had his account suspended following an incident Friday where Negreanu responded to an unknown user in his Twitch chat while streaming that night’s bracelet event on WSOP.com.
Connor ‘blanconegro’ Drinan re-wrote the PokerStars Spring Championship of Online Poker record books on Tuesday when he took down the $10K Pot Limit Omaha Main Event for an unprecedented fifth title in a single SCOOP series.
Jason Somerville and PokerStars are parting ways. The poker player and content creator extraordinaire announced the news via a video on social media on New Year’s Day 2020.
Darius Wajda, who may be better known as ‘KomodoDragonJesus,’ has been playing poker since he was a teenager. He only recently decided to take the game up on a full-time basis, though, but in the short period of time, he’s done well enough to land himself on the roster of GGPoker’s Stream Team.
Phil Galfond is about to run wild in the streets. The Twitch Poker streets that is.
George ‘ShroomTheRiver’ Davidson has been playing online poker seriously for close to 10 years now, but he’s been around the game for much longer than that, playing for sweets with his family long before he took it up more competitively.
You’ve seen it in the movies: a group of soldiers sitting around dealing out a deck of cards, tossing some money in the middle and playing a little poker just to pass the time. It may be cliche, but for Germany’s Torsten ‘Jektiss’ Brinkmann that is a scene from his life.
Amid a flurry of recent news in the world of online poker ambassadorship, partypoker has announced the creation of their own “Team Online” and have revealed the first two players to be named to it.
Twitch streaming poker professionals Jeff Gross and Jaime Staples have announced, in back-to-back days, that they have parted ways with their mutual sponsor, PokerStars.
Fifteen years ago, the poker world was introduced to Chris Moneymaker. The accountant from Tennessee with an unthinkable last name earned his way into the 2003 World Series of Poker Main Event via a satellite on PokerStars for a paltry $86. Moneymaker went on to win the event thanks to a storybook run in poker’s […]