On this day in 2003 ChessandPoker.com was launched. Four years later, we’re still pushing forward and stronger than ever! I’m working hard to roll out our new design this weekend which I think looks very, very cool. And I’m ready for the relaunch, I’ve been working on this thing for months! This year we’re going [...]

I’ve had much better results lately in the middle stages of tournaments where historically I’m either massively chipping up or busting (which is pretty standard but still), considering that I’ve tried to consciously avoid distractions such as surfing the net or playing 6 tables at a time. I’ve been getting deeper more smoothly and playing [...]

In an unprecedented event, Annette Obrestad has won the $10,000 main event at the World Series of Poker Europe! All at once she becomes the youngest player to win a bracelet and the only woman to win a $10k buy-in event. The fact that she took down her first WSOP tournament is almost too surreal [...]

I’m not sure if MTT (multi-table tournament) success has done something to alter my results in Sit-and-Go’s, but I’ve been stinking up the place of late any time I sit down to play one. Granted, it’s not entirely because of bad play but I’m the first to admit my attention level goes way down in [...]

Annette “Annette_15″ Obrestad has made her first final table at a World Series of Poker event, and she picked a good one to do so: the $10,000 buy-in main event. In the inaugural WSOP Europe series, which consisted of three seperate events complete with bracelets and huge paydays for top spots, the final event has [...]