Nick Jones, Editor

Nick has been involved in the online poker industry for over a decade, as a professional poker player, poker coach, video instructor, blogger, software developer, journalist and editor.

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Watch & Learn: Phil Ivey Playing Short Deck Hold’em

“Ivey gonna Ivey!”

Short Deck Hold’em, AKA 6+ Hold’em, is one of the hottest poker variants being played today, and courtesy of these highlights from the HKD 500k ($64k USD) buy-in Short Deck Event at the Triton Poker SHR Jeju 2018 series, you can learn from one of poker’s all-time masters, Phil Ivey.

Watch as Ivey schools the table at Six Plus Hold’em. You will also see Tom Dwan and Ben Lamb get their six plus on in this 45 minute collection of highlights!

888's The Poker Brief with Kara Scott
Daniel Negreanu Collection: The Best Of Kid Poker
The Bad Beat Diaries
F5's Top Ten Poker Personalities
OP-Poker Takes a Look at PokerStars VR

OP-Poker Takes a Look at PokerStars VR

OP-Poker, a team of Twitch streamers and official ambassadors of PokerStars’ Power Up, was recently invited to have a look at PokerStars’ brand new upcoming Virtual Reality Product PokerStars VR held at EGX conference at Birmingham.

Rounders Turns 20

Rounders Turns 20

Continuing the celebration of Rounders turning twenty this year, The Ringer now brings us “Going All In: An Oral History of Rounders” —which doesn’t disappoint.

Molly Bloom To Speak At Unibet Open Bucharest

Molly Bloom To Speak At Unibet Open Bucharest

Unibet has announced that the Poker Princess, Molly Bloom, who’s “Hollywood high stakes poker game was the subject of the Oscar-nominated and critically acclaimed film Molly’s Game“ will be their special guest!

Do You Think This is Collusion?

Do You Think This is Collusion?

This story still has the poker community talking. Real life poker couple Kristen Bicknell (who is signed by partypoker) and Alex Foxen made the final table of a tournament at The Venetian in Las Vegas last month. Their alleged soft-play and collusion has the poker community riled up with the likes of Doug Polk and Justin Bonomo still talking about it long after play finished up.

Jaime & Matt Staples Win Prop Bet!

Jaime & Matt Staples Win Prop Bet!

A year on from agreeing to a crazy prop bet with billionaire Bill Perkins, the Staples brothers have walked away with $150,000 and won their bet to get within 1 lb of each other.

#QUEENRULES At Unibet

#QUEENRULES At Unibet

Unibet have worked with creative agency FCB Inferno to release a custom deck of cards to accompany the launch of a new poker format where the Queen outranks the King.The project is intended to help draw attention to gender equality and unconscious gender bias in poker.

Phil Hellmuth Thinks He'd Have Made A Good US President

Phil Hellmuth Thinks He'd Have Made A Good US President

In this great interview with CardPlayer Lifestyle, Robbie Strazynski goes one-on-one with Phil Hellmuth ahead of the launch of his new autobiography “The Poker Brat”—which Hellmuth hopes will become a New York Times Bestseller—to really find out the man behind the famous name.

Doyle Brunson Dishes The Dirt On Bobby's Room Bust Up

Doyle Brunson Dishes The Dirt On Bobby's Room Bust Up

Thanks to pokernyhederne and some cryptic tweets from Doyle Brunson it was revealed that the two men who lost their shit in the Bellagio’s high stakes Bobby’s Room were none other than Gus Hansen and David Oppenhiem.