A GUIDE TO TWITCH.TV - HOW AND WHY TO SET UP YOUR TWITCH.TV ACCOUNT    This is the second article in a short series focusing on Twitch.tv – a growing social video-streaming platform destined to change our perception of (and interaction with) live broadcasting. It is our hope that ....

How to start in Texas Holdem – The Basics The Secret First of all, I’d like to make you understand that poker is not easy. It’s easy if you get lucky, but that won’t last forever. The only thing that does last and is a universal constant is SKILL. And you need to ac....

One of the most important things to understand about the way poker rooms make money - is rakeback. Let’s try an easy way of explaining this. What actually happens is that every time you play poker, the company that provides the service (the poker site) takes a certain percentage of every ....

Amaya Games, PokerStars parent company decided earlier in the year to implement significant changes to its PokerStars VIP program. The reactions to these changes seem to have left a variety of different effects. Let's start with the nature of the changes themselves. One of the major turns is con....

Poker staking is an arrangement between a person usually referred to as a backer who invests money and a staked player (sometimes referred as a stakee or a "horse") who plays tournaments or cash games with the backers money. The terms of these arrangements can vary greatly but the basic principle is....