This year's British Poker Awards nominees in the Best Blogger category are: @Jake Cody @Samuel Grafton @Padraig Parkinson @Tony Kendall @Dale Philip! Here are some samples of their poker writing in anticipation of the ceremony tonight at @The Hippodrome Casino London!
Sam Grafton sharing thoughts (and reservations) about the poker industry in his last column for pokerplayer365.com:
Full article: http://www.pokerplayer365.com/blogs/sam-grafton/sam-grafton-time-say-goodbye/
Irish Open ambassador Padraig Parkinson on Europe's oldest Hold'em tournament:
BRUNSON, REESE, UNGAR, PIONEERS OF IRISH POKER
Full article: http://www.cardplayer.com/poker-blogs/19-padraig-parkinson/entries/561766-brunson-reese-ungar-pioneers-of-irish-poker
Jake Cody, thinking about transition and transience a few weeks before the birth of his daughter Arianna:
Full article: http://www.jake-cody.com/transition/
Dale Phillip about his frustrating attempt to return to Scotland from Thailand:
Full article: http://www.daleroxxu.co.uk/2014/07/living-in-thailand.html#more
Tony Kendall's overview of 2014:
Full article: http://www.bluffeurope.com/PokerMagazine/Table-Talk-With-Tikay_398.aspx
In a few hours we'll know who will succeed 'the Gent of Poker' as the winner of the Best Blogger award. Stay tuned for #BritishPokerAwards news later tonight!
Adrien Bacchi 24 Feb 2015
we want pictures from the party :) !
Elena RKH 24 Feb 2015
'Imagine if every time we won a hand of poker we were able to give a child a life-saving injection. Imagine every time we won a poker tournament we were able to put an impoverished person through school. Imagine if poker was seen as a way of touching people’s hearts; as a device to do well.'
'If it wasnt for my parents and family pulling me through it I probably wouldn't be here today.'
'..to my baby brother and all the armed forces around the world serving for a rightful and just cause, single parents that do it on their own, and people that stand up for what they believe in those are my heroes'
The RankingHero community continues the MoreThanMoney discussion on our love for the game and the many - not necessarily heroic - faces of our heroes in life and poker. Thank you, @Mark Duguid, @ShiShiFed, and everyone who shared! We are looking forward to more great posts about the great people in our lives to whom we turn for inspiration and support!
RankingHero Community on Poker&MoreThanMoney and Lee Davy on Doing Good, Gandhi and Philipp Gruissem
Check out Poker Bits&Picks: 7 Fights, 13 Bad Beats, and a $1 Million GTD Event! for some great poker reads and videos, and follow @Lee Davy (How Guns and Online Gambling Give Me a Headache) and @Robbie Strazynski (Time for even recreational players to switch away from No Limit Hold'em?) for more links to interesting articles.
Good luck to @Bruno Menet at @Casino de Gujan-Mestras and to all our members who will be taking the RankingHero patch to live tournaments or who will be playing for the 1,000 Golden Chips for the Grand Prix Million at @Dusk Till Dawn!
Special welcome to @Mantas Zeringis @Egi Adriaans @Moshe Azuelos @Bruno Michels @Romain Meyer @Arnaud Etchebarne and the many players who validated their profiles in the past week! Good luck at the tables and keep us posted :)
Congrats to new members @Giancarlo Palleschi and @Duncan Riches on their recent cashes at @Niagara Fallsview Casino and @The Hippodrome Casino London!
And speaking of the Hippodrome and of heroes - tomorrow, February 23rd, the legendary venue will host the British Poker Awards ceremony to honor all the heroes of UK poker. We will be there to welcome them as a TBPA partner and official bar sponsor :)
Check back next week when another illustrious WeeklyHero will guest star on RankingHero with an exclusive interview and bio!
Yours truly,
ShiShiFed 22 Feb 2015
Welcome new RKH members
Nicolas Levi 22 Feb 2015
Great week everyone! Looking forward to the #britishpokerawards !
Dear @Lee Davy,
As I hope you know by now, RankingHero.com is all about sharing and connecting (and nothing like 2+2 or reddit with their elitist culture and overzealous moderators ;)
In fact, part of the reason RankingHero.com was created in the first place was to provide an inclusive poker platform where everyone is a hero; where everyone has a voice and is given access to a tribune to make themselves heard.
And since you happen to be one of my own heroes in poker :), I am really happy that you've chosen to share links to your articles on the website!
Now I also hope that you, in turn, won't mind my copy-pasting a big part of your op-ed How to Help the World River by River. You see, it fits in perfectly - and inspiringly - with our current #MoreThanMoney discussion and the latest question about our heroes in life and poker. (Goes without saying, it is also a beautiful piece of writing :)
Thank you!
REG and @Philipp Gruissem on RKH:
Rank Your Heroes
Here's a fun list of poker superheroes/superpowers to rank :)
http://www.pokerlistings.com/marvel-poker-super-heroes-10-poker-heroes-unmasked-at-the-table
Elena RKH 23 Feb 2015
Adrien Bacchi 23 Feb 2015
Our poker news picks will take you from the nightmares of fist fights and bad beats to the sweetest dreams, with the Grand Prix Million event at the legendary @Dusk Till Dawn!
Full article on www.poker.titanbet.co.uk
While they break one player's heart and bankroll, they can make another's fortune and fame. We are all fascinated by bad beats and you will love the videos brought together in the pokerstrategy compilation, including this one, starring @Phil Hellmuth and @Chris Ferguson:
And finally, a UK event that will delight all the locals and - for those not based in the UK - is well worth the trip to Nottingham to play at the mythical @Dusk Till Dawn casino!
Good luck to all entrants and bring back lots of Golden Chips to RankingHero :)
Elena RKH 20 Feb 2015
With a fantastic one-million guarantee, as many as 9 starting days to choose from - both online and live - and a buy-in as low as $100 (not to mention one-cent online qualifiers on @PartyPoker.com!), @Dusk Till Dawn and partypoker indeed make an offer you can't refuse - the Grand Prix Million!
Good luck and lots of Golden Chips to all of our members who have been playing the online satellites since February 16th!
Starting days, live and online: May 15-23 (Players who play further Day 1’s after making Day 2 will carry their highest chip stack through)
Day 2, live: May 24th
Final Day, live: May 25th
The Grand Prix is guaranteed at a record-breaking prize pool of $1 million, including 100 WPT 500 seats. With the buy-in set at $100+$20, partypoker and Dusk Till Dawn are targeting 10,000 entries, more than double the previous Grand Prix record of 4,932 set in September 2013.
Online satellites started on Monday 16th February at partypoker.com and will continue until the Golden Chips run out. Entries start at just one cent with five Grand Prix seats guaranteed at 7pm and 9pm every night.
The first 1,000 seats won in these online satellites will receive a $25,000 Golden Chip and any player who reaches the final table using their Golden Chip seat will receive a $25,000 cash bonus in addition to their tournament winnings.
We hope to hear soon from a happy Ranking Hero who won their first Golden Chip! :)
Elena RKH 20 Feb 2015
Jason Matthieu 20 Feb 2015
Tellement tentant mais mon anglais est tellement aproximatif :(
Slugerrz 23 Feb 2015
What does the golden chip get you?
As all of our members know by now, this year RankingHero.com has joined PokerNews, PokerStrategy, CalvinAyre.com, Lyceum Media and Casino Life Magazine as a British Poker Awards partner. The premier event of UK poker is organized by @Bluff Europe and sponsored by @Unibet and the ceremony will take place at @The Hippodrome Casino London on Monday, February 23rd.
As the official bar sponsor, RankingHero will be happy to greet all ticket-holders with a welcome drink!
@Nicolas Levi, RankingHero.com Chief Commercial Officer:
You now have the unique opportunity to win tickets for this fantastic celebration of UK poker. We invite you to try and guess the preferences of Nicolas Levi, member of the prestigious panel of experts who selected the nominees in each category!
Get as many as possible right and on Friday morning (Feb 20) Nicolas will announce the happy winner of TWO tickets for the ceremony!
Find all the categories and nominees at http://www.pokernews.com/news/2014/10/2014-british-poker-awards-19429.htm
Post your guesses about Nicolas Levi's favorites in the different categories on the #BritishPokerAwards page for the chance to actually meet Nicolas in person at the bar and maybe ask him WHY he voted as he did :)
http://www.rankinghero.com/en/hashtags/britishpokerawards.html
Everyone is welcome to play, even if you can't be in London next Monday :)
And if you don't want to take any chances, there are still some tickets available at http://www.hippodromecasino.com
Elena RKH 17 Feb 2015
"Nicolas will announce the happy winner of TWO tickets for the ceremony" !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! I suppose I can not participate but @Mark Duguid @John Thomson @William Calder it can be interesting for you :)))
William Calder 18 Feb 2015
POSTED MY CHOICES AND WHAT I THOUGHT GD LUCK AN HAVE FUN HOSTING THE BAR @Elena RKH @Nicolas Levi
Elena RKH 18 Feb 2015
Thanks William ! :) GL to you ! :)
@Melissa Burr cites the RankingHero Last Longer at WPT500 among best practices for poker promotion! The full article is on Cardplayer Lifestyle!
Robbie Strazynski on Rankinghero New post just published today at my Cardplayer Lifestyle poker blog from rising poker star Melissa Burr entitled: How to Fix Online Poker in New Jersey: A Pro Player’s Perspective Interesting...
Our WeeklyHero series continues with bio and exclusive interview with another iconic figure in poker: @Antonio Esfandiari!
We are very honored this week to welcome @Marc-Andre Ladouceur @"Karate" Mike Santoro @Edouard Mignot @Karim Bennani Smires and CardPlayer Lifestyle founder @Robbie Strazynski (who has promised to start sharing his poker articles and interviews with the community :)!
Meanwhile, make sure you follow @Lee Davy's page for links to his articles, among which, An interview with Sam Trickett: Fears, Friends and Ferraris or 10 Reasons to Slow Down to Achieve Greater Success.
Dozens of members cashed in live tournaments all over the world, including our stars @Davidi Kitai @Kevin MacPhee and @Greg Raymer. Congratulations to our winner of the week @William Calder - just imagine what he could do if he had his superpower of choice - to stop time ;)! And special mention to @Melanie Benedetti who was one of the ladies cashing in the Men's Event at EPT Deauville, right after the controversial Ladies Event with 22 male players and a male winner from a field of 83!
Big thanks to everyone following and participating in our MoreThanMoney discussion and make sure you check back for the new question next week!
Good luck at the tables and see you on Facebook and Twitter :)
Yours truly,
Robbie Strazynski 15 Feb 2015
Thanks for the mention Annie. Glad to start taking part in the community here. I've just posted a couple of the more recent articles we've published at Cardplayer Lifestyle.
Would be happy to get some feedback from some other community members.
Adrien Bacchi 16 Feb 2015