Poker Interviews
For those of us who have struggled with tilt, meet Kurosh Dejgosha. His style of play is fast and aggressive, which correlates to big swings, big bets, and big beats. Yet tilt has plagued him throughout his rise, leading to downturns and losses that would have dealt game-ending blows to most of us.
Oct 24, 2006
Lee Gaines turned 19 this month having just moved into a new house in Tucson. Poker fans know him as Bill Ivey, having quickly become a well known player in online no-limit holdem. With a screen name like Bill Ivey, you know where his aspirations are. He brings a youthful confidence with a candor and willingness to acknowledge his shortcomings and a recipe for long-term improvement.
Sep 23, 2006
Vaughn Sandman is your typical professional poker player except for one trait that is quite rare: an honesty and candor he uses to examine what's gone wrong and now to tell us the real story of going pro. It has been far from perfect, but his story is a powerful one of what it means to make a go of poker, to stumble, and then try again.
Sep 4, 2006
*An article in a recurring series of profiles of players making the jump to playing for a living*Joe Tehan earned an MBA and then headed into the work force to find his entry into a career. His passion kept pulling him back, playing poker. He stands out in the poker world for his humility and kindness, but beneath the surface rages the heart of a lion.
Aug 3, 2006
*An article in a recurring series of profiles of players making the jump to playing for a living* Going pro sounds fairly easy. You're regularly beating online games, so why not move to Vegas, start playing full-time, rake in the dollars, and enjoy the good life?
Jun 11, 2006
*An article in a recurring series of profiles of players making the jump to playing for a living* Grand Rapids is a fairly quiet city in the heartland of the struggling American automotive industry. Brutally cold in the winters, but that can’t be said for its very own Greg Lavery.
May 2, 2006
An article in a recurring series of profiles of players making the jump to playing for a livingMike D aka TStoneMBD from Connecticut is a player most of us can only imagine. Averaging 600 hands per hour playing at Party Poker 15/30 or 30/60, this twenty-one year old has taken the bootstraps approach to poker: bypassing college, scraping and clawing to the world of five-figure daily swings.
Apr 19, 2006