Gambling in Canada Archive
Each year, this esteemed ranking system culminates into one person – the person who generates the most points via tournament cashes – being named the Player of the Year (POY). With today, July 1, 2019, being the midway point through the year, it seems like an appropriate time to see where the players...
Only 57 tournaments have played out to the end. Event #58 has only 12 remaining; none from Canada. That still leaves 31 bracelets to be awarded (potentially to Canadian poker players), including the most precious of them all – the 2019 WSOP Championship bracelet....
At 35 years of age, Ari Engel has now seen it all. He's dominated the online poker realm, captured a 7-figure crown in the live tournament sector, and after having already won 9 gold rings, finally claimed the most coveted piece of poker jewelry in the world – a WSOP bracelet....
Greg Mueller strikes WSOP gold in $10k H.O.R.S.E. Greg Mueller, known to the online poker realm as 'GregFBT', joined in a field of 172 entries in 2019 WSOP Event #29, the $10,000 H.O.R.S.E. Championship. After three days of grueling action, he returned on Day 4 to find his tournament life hanging by a thread....
None of our Canadian Platinum Pass winners remain in contention for the $5.1 million PSPC title, but 5 Canada poker pros are still in the hunt. The biggest difference between competitors in the first annual PokerStars Hold’em Players Championship (PSPC) is the cost of entry, and how it relates to each player’s degree of...
Live and online poker pro Griffin Benger rounds out top 3 after PS Hold’em Player’s Championship Day 2. Some of Canada’s favorite, most distinguished poker pros are making waves in The Bahamas this week. Toronto, Ontario native Griffin Benger is one of them, currently owning the third largest bag of chips following Day 2...
Retired Canadian poker pro turned MMA fighter Terrence Chan turns up in the Bahamas for 2019 PS Hold’em Players Championship. The action is now underway at the Atlantic Casino in the Bahamas, where a staggering field of more than 900 turned out to participate in a ground-breaking event. The $25,000 PokerStars NL Hold’em Players...
Representing Willowbrook, Saskatchewan, Canadian online poker pro Travis Nesbitt is taking a free ride to the Bahamas with a $25k Platinum Pass to PokerStars PSPC 2019. It is a good day to be Travis Nesbitt. The 28 year old spent the last decade building up to this moment. He’s been playing online poker all...
Etymology of Daniel Negreanu’s Power Hold’em Strategy book in today’s poker world. There are few poker players in the world more famous than Daniel ‘Kid Poker‘ Negreanu. He’s a gregarious player with an extraordinary ability to read opponents. He’s famous for calling out a player’s hand strength, if not exact hole cards, based merely...
Practical review of Daniel Negreanu’s first poker book, Hold’em Wisdom for All Players. Mathematicians and professional gamblers alike are famous for scripting strategy guides. Stanford Wong‘s Professional Blackjack, Edward Thorp‘s Beat the Dealer, Doyle Brunson‘s Super System; all are prolific documents authored by phenomenal players of their respective games. There’s no argument that Daniel...
