Each year, the eyes of the poker world fall upon a single story. That story is the main event of the World Series of Poker, and like all great stories, it is a mixture of many elements. Characters emerge, both heroes and villains, smaller stories emerge within the context of the larger one, and...

Anytime you gather 100 of the most talented people in the world in a single discipline at one place, the result is an exhibition of greatness. On June 24, that is exactly what happened at the Rio All-Suite Hotel and Casino in Las Vegas. It was day one of the $50,000 H.O.R.S.E. event, and 148 of...

The UK's highly competitive land-based casino market is set to get even more spirited with the launch of another player into the fray, Casino Red. Casino Red has operated the successful CasinoRed.com online casino since April, and is the brainchild of EndX co-founder Nicolas Boyes-Hunter. He...

Having been the bureau chief of Card Player Europe for almost two years, I am sad to say that this will be my last month in charge. I was thrilled when, at the end of 2005 during the Master Classics of Poker in my hometown of Amsterdam, I was asked to take over from Jesse May, who had done such a...

A Bracelet for Vaswani and the Final Table of the Year for Jon Kalmar Should you have walked into the cardroom in the Orleans Casino during the last month in search of the rarity of a small pot-limit Omaha game, you may well have found around half of your table to be British players, uprooted...

Summer in the City Where is the place to stay in Europe after a long and exhausting time at the World Series of Poker in Las Vegas? I know only one answer to this question: Velden, Austria! When I arrived back home in Germany on July 16, I just dropped my bag, changed clothes, took a shower, and...