News & Opinion

Or as I would prefer to title this ramble ... "Are You Addicted to Poker or Just Passionate about Your Hobby" An interesting thread started up in a forum last week from a new member, a student writing an article about "people who are or have been addicted to poker"....

International horoscope sensation Septic Peg, Gamblista’s new resident gypsy astrologist tells you what type of poker player you are based on your star signs, suggesting good hands and maybe predicting a hot streak in her astrological poker star sign predictions. Any similarity or confusion between Gamblista’s “Septic Peg” and (has...

We have all been on what seems like a never ending downswing, I am no exception it happens ... nothing seems to be going right whatever I try. My dominating hands don't stand up and the river seems to kill me if the turn doesn't. Seriously at that moment it...

Discovery Channel's series Deadliest Catch follows the Crab Fishermen of the Bering Sea, documenting the captains and crew of eight crab-fishing boats as they battle against the treacherous weather conditions doing one of the deadliest and potentially most lucrative jobs in the world. Facing dangerous seas, a constant danger of...

The short answer IMHO is a definite No ... But it would be a very short article without further explanation of my thoughts on why its not worth playing freerolls and why playing them is for the most part a waste of time if your a half decent player. Playing...

The penny is beginning to drop for many wannabe pros that maybe, just maybe they haven't got what it takes to quit their day job. Discovering that grinding out a living playing online or going around the live tournament circuit is hard work - quelle surprise. All round nice guy...

Increasingly poker rooms and networks are finding they need to consider the overall health of their player ecosystem. Each having different approaches of trying to balance the interests of new players, recreational players and the regular grinders and long term winning players. Most of the solutions aim to keep the...

OK - Don't get too excited gamblista hasn't turned into one of those bitter donk jokerstars hating sites just yet. I'm not about to post a handful of ridonkulous play money bad beats as if it's proof pokerstars is rigged or (insert any other poker site name) has a action...

Last week Lock Poker announced it is leaving the Revolution network immediately to become an independent room. The slow paying / no paying Lock has put the blame for the split firmly in the lap of the network. Lock players who have been waiting months for their money should know...

US Full Tilt pros can now start the process to get their money, however rumours abound that the US Full Tilt Red Pro's will not get paid out in the remission process. Party Poker re-brand and re-launch has been far from smooth, while 888Poker capitalises taking 3rd place in player...