Florian Gheorghe

Here is PokerTube’s exclusive Top Rookie Players of 2016, live poker tournament edition. Enjoy!

Mason Malmuth offered his take on what online poker needs to get over the hump: increase the rake at the small stakes, limit multi-tabling and end all volume-based bonuses.

As the poker community grew more and more though, the juicy and never-heard-before details of some random poker wizkid’s life become more and more enticing.

​Since the US presidential campaign started, the Twitter Wars have gone to a whole new level. Most of the poker professionals in America joined the dispute.

Long gone are the days when you had to scroll all the way down to find the Poker Twitch channel where usually there were just a several streamers trying to break through.

The signs weren’t encouraging at all. Yet high-roller Doug Polk aka ‘WCGRider’ sticked with it and his grind eventually paid off in a big way finally ending his huge downswing.

The French will soon have much more options when it comes to online poker as they will be able to join EU licensed sites other than the ones localized in France.

Daniel Negreanu and his poker buddies - Phil Ivey, Doyle Brunson, Patrik Antonius to name some - will point you to the right direction to make your home game fun again.

If you are planning to grind the live games, well, you’ll most likely encounter some unique characters at the table who can’t quite be tagged as nice guys.

Fuckpokerstars.com - a place dedicated to all those who lost their bankroll on PokerStars and think that their RNG is rigged.

A Buddhist monk, leader of the Vietnamese Buddhist Association of Southwest Louisiana was sentenced to prison for gambling away $263,463.36 in temple funds. He was first arrested last year, in September, in New York and accused of wire fraud.

​Grinding the Spin & Go tournaments can be horrendous at times, driving any man or woman to the brink of madness. And one Russian poker pro who goes under the alias of ‘aKTepnOpHo’ knows it.

Maybe next time you open your favorite poker room or go to your nearby casino, you will too go deep into the tank and start thinking about actually making epic folds. Because it happened ladies and gents at this year’s WSOP Main Event.

Sit tight and enjoy the next lines as they will definitely shed some light on this whole new industry and why poker and Bitcoin are closely linked together more than you may ever think.