NBC National Heads Up Championship Here I Come!

Hello fellow UB’ers…
The UBOC tourneys are over and I must say i really look forward to them every year as it’s a super chance to play bigger buy-in tourneys on various games for a chance to win much more cash. Sounds like a win, win, win to me.
I had seen Gary “Debo34″ had made a [...]

Is Bigger Better?

They say big is best. I don’t agree. Higher and higher entry fees are putting so many tournaments out of reach of both the average and exceptional players. The $50,000 entry H.O.R.S.E tournament at the _World Series of Poker_ led the way, something …

Hello fellow UBers

Hello fellow UBers
I recently got back from Las Vegas where Annie Duke, Ali Nejad, Jim Shipley and I all taught at the World Series of Poker Academy. I never would of thought growing up that I would love teaching so much. It’s very rewarding when you see the players really improve their skills. When we [...]

My New Best Friend

In 2005, Joe Hachem won the _World Series of Poker_. But in 2010 my new best friend is a man named Joe Heyburn. They sound the same, don’t they? Joe Heyburn, you can Google him by the way, is famous for being on the TV show You Are What You Eat for …

UBOC has started!

I am really excited about the schedule this year because it includes so many mixed games. Mixed games are a big trend in tournament poker right now. All you have to do is glance at The World Series of Poker schedule to see that. But outside of trendiness I think mixed games are really what [...]

Luck is a Four-Letter Word

When Matt Graham won his bracelet in Pot-Limit Omaha during the last World Series of Poker he had to fight back from a 10-1 deficit to defeat the formidable Vitaly Lunkin. Matt played great the whole final table but to climb out of that big a hole, especially against a player like Lunkin, you need [...]

Head to Head

An event that rapidly became one of the most prestigious in poker is the NBC National Heads-Up Championship. Heads-up play has always been a popular form of poker–the legendary match between Johnny Moss and Nick “the Greek” Dandalos was the precursor to the World Series of Poker. And the biggest battles in recent online history–the [...]

#939 – Where Did 2009 Go? – Part II, Everywhere-All the Time at the WSOP

[thanks to B.J. Nemeth for taking this image]
I took a more methodical approach to covering the 2009 World Series of Poker than in 2007 or 2008. For one thing, Full Tilt had hired Shauna as my assistant, to help produce the blog and expand my reach for keeping current on all the Full Tilt pros [...]

Post from: Poker Blog from Full Tilt Poker by Michael Craig

#939 – Where Did 2009 Go? – Part II, Everywhere-All the Time at the WSOP

The Year in Photos

Having survived Christmas it’s time to look forward to New Year’s Eve, New Year’s Day, and the dawn of a new decade. After what I ate and drank the last few days I’m not sure how much partying I’ll be able to endure next weekend, but pushing one’s boundaries is all part of life’s rich [...]

A LOOK BACK ON 2009

Wow, what a year it has been!  I thought it would be impossible for 2009 to top 2008. I mean, how much better can it get than having a 17th place finish at the World Series of Poker Main Event and $334,534 payday?! Apparently it could get a whole lot better, exciting, and surprising!
I spent [...]

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