Hi I am Vishal, Game Promotions Executive at Cybertech International Holdings Ltd. And this is my first post on this poker blog. Since the day I joined I have been a part of the weekly in-house Friday night poker tournaments. I guess everybody in the office awaits this day because it’s the end of the week and these Friday night poker tournaments make us all feel in it, be it somebody who’s new to the game to somebody who’s well established by the even and odds of it, plays the…Read more

Welcome to the Tomsk Diary. Over the next few posts, we shall try to recreate a great experience that we had recently for our online poker blog readers. Yes, this a is poker entertainment blog, but some stories just have to be told. And we promise not to renege on the ‘entertainment’ bit. So this is what it’s all about: a trip to Tomsk, Russia. Trust us when we say, that nobody goes to Russia with a spring in their step as they would for a tropical paradise. Now that the…Read more

Involvement in the underground poker circuit seems to be the latest thing after drug addiction and alcoholism, on the draw-attention-by-self-destruct list that so many modern day celebrities seem to favor these days. Why the Underground Poker Circuit is Dangerous These unlicensed poker rooms on the underground poker circuit make up and follow their own rules. Underground poker rooms are dangerous because most of them happen to be run by some pretty dodgy characters that will not hesitate to resort to violence at the drop of a hat. The latest in…Read more

With the media spotlight on event such as WSOP increasing as the years pass by, there has been a steep rise in the number of online poker players globally. Online Poker sites are popping up all over the world and friendly cash games are everywhere come Friday night. Whether it is for thrill or profit the sport of poker has the attention of many onlookers year round. While rookies know the fundamentals of Online Poker they more often than not get lost in the poker jargon spoken at the casino…Read more

Baseball star once again dabbles in unlicensed poker Alex Rodriguez should have stuck to baseball and Cameron Diaz; not necessarily in that order. As things stand, his involvement in yet another unlicensed poker scandal is bound to not only bring trouble to his baseball career, but also bring the game of poker into disrepute. Like any sport, poker has its own governing bodies and sanctioned tournament organizing bodies. The annual tournaments such as WSOP and WPT, as well as events of a more regional nature such as European Poker Tour…Read more