Ivan Tan is widely considered to be one of Singapore’s most successful poker players. He rose to prominence amongst the poker community back in 2007.  While he was holiday with his wife he entered the APPT Macau Main Event with $300 and won a $2500 seat. He managed to beat some...

Rakeback is a refund from the poker room to the poker player who generated the rake in the first place. In other words, it’s a way for you to save a few dollars on poker rake costs. What is the rake? Poker rooms have to generate their profit differently from online casinos with...

After Cada’s recent historical win at the 2009 WSOP, it made it me sit back and wonder what have been the more defining moments in the life and times of online poker.  Just a short 10 years ago, playing poker online was virtually unheard of (pardon the pun) and confined to...

Okay, I confess! I was totally confused by these two poker events – like are they the same thing? If not, what is the difference between them? So let me save you the heartache of finding out for yourself. First, yes, they are indeed different titles and not connected in any way...

Unbelievable!!!  Joseph Cada won the Main Event of the World Series of Poker (WSOP) two days ago and he’s only 21 years old!  And he smashed two records in the WSOP’s 40 year history: he’s the youngest player to ever win the Main Event and it was the longest final...

The other night during our weekly friendly poker game, one of my mates tried to build a straight around a corner.  I mean like this Q-K-A-2-3. This would also be a straight around a corner J-Q-K-A-2. You could also call it a ‘wrap-around straight’ I suppose. It’s certainly...

William Hill is part of the iPoker network meaning that there is a high volume of world class poker traffic. William Hill is also one of the oldest online poker operators (in fact they first started way back in 1934 before the advent of the internet) meaning they are reliable and...