Poker Players: Interviews, advice & profiles with the World's best players

We tell the tale of Andy Black, the ‘mad monk’: “So mesmerising was Ungar’s charisma that Black turned into a calling station and off-loaded all those hard-earned chips in just two hands”

1 Oct 2007

Andy Black is an enigma. He’s one of the most talented tournament players in the world and also a devout Buddhist. PokerPlayer discovers how Stu Ungar and drug... Continue Reading

Cash game turned tournament pro John Juanda talks us through his game: “I used to play in LA every day. In 2001, I was the biggest winner in the cash games there by a long way”

1 Oct 2007

5th on the all-time money list, we meet up with John Juanda, an often-overlooked poker master John Juanda may very well be the most underrated tournament playe... Continue Reading

Ex-PokerPlayer writer now one of poker’s biggest names, Roland De Wolfe tells his enthralling story

1 Oct 2007

Roland de Wolfe talks about tearing up the WPT World Championship and how he pissed off Jesse May It didn’t start out so well, but in the end, it’s been what y... Continue Reading

Poker professional Dave Colclough has blonde moments all the time. “One of my opponents in the morning’s seven-card stud game was a pensioner in his 70s”

1 Oct 2007

Dave Colclough takes a look back at his first time in Sin City and tells us how he became a fan of cheap T-shirts and casino hustlers It’s that time of year ag... Continue Reading

Daniel Negreanu speaks to PokerPlayer about the WSOP: “Chip Reese versus Phil Hellmuth is a perfect example. There is no doubt that Chip is the better player – way, way better all round”

1 Oct 2007

Dave Woods gets Kid Poker’s thoughts on this year’s World Series just before it kicked off You’ve had two final tables and you’ve gone fairly deep ... Continue Reading

WSOP main event champion Jamie Gold revealed. “I’ve heard others describe me as the first player to tell people the truth”

1 Oct 2007

Everyone has an opinion on last year’s WSOP main event winner, but does anyone really know Jamie Gold? We reveal the man behind the myth in a revealing and sea... Continue Reading

Stu Ungar is one of the most famous players in poker’s long history. We find out why: “This success was testament to the ferocious chip-gathering style he employed years before it became the forte of many modern tournament pros”

1 Oct 2007

He wrote the script on how no-limit Hold’em should be played and claimed that the only player who could beat him was ‘himself’. Sadly, Stu Ungar was proved rig... Continue Reading

WSOP world champion Jerry Yang tells us his amazing story: “We tried to escape to Thailand, but were caught by Communist soldiers who pointed AK- 47s in my face”

1 Oct 2007

We catch up with the 2007 WSOP World Champion and discover his incredible story The player Part-time player Jerry Yang won this year’s WSOP $10,000 Main Event,... Continue Reading

WSOP bracelet winner Steve Zolotow has an interesting poker history so we caught up with him: “I wasn’t the best backgammon player or the best poker player, but I was way better than anybody, on average, at both games”

1 Sep 2007

The two-time WSOP bracelet winner cut his teeth in New York’s infamous Mayfair Club in the 70s Sporting his signature Fu Man Chu moustache, Steve ‘Zee’ Zolotow... Continue Reading

Amarillo Slim IS the real Slim Shady so we asked him to stand up and this is what he said: “You can shear a sheep many times, but you can skin it only once”

1 Sep 2007

Love him or loathe him, Amarillo Slim is a bona fide hard-gambling, poker legend On my way into Amarillo I pass a dozen or so Cadillacs buried end-up in a fiel... Continue Reading

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