Jon Pill

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Joined PokerTube May 2016

Jon is a freelance writer and novelist who learned to play poker after watching Rounders in year 9. He has been giving away his beer money at cards ever since. Currently he is based in Bristol where he makes sporadic donations to the occasional live tournament or drunken late night Zoom session. He blogs at What Is There to Option?


Articles by Jon Pill

Daniel Negreanu: A Day in The Life of a High Roller

An inside look into a day in the life of a high roller practicing up for the $300,000 Super High Roller Bowl this May.

Mark Wahlberg - The Gambler: Poker Movie Review

By day, Mark Wahlberg's character is an unconvincing and frequently cringe-worthy literature professor, while at night he is a degenerate gambler with a death wish.

Alec Torelli: How to Play Deep Stack Poker

With just ten minutes to do his explaining, Torelli mainly addresses how to adjust to the problem of stacking off light when the stacks are so deep.

Alec Torelli: Morning Rituals For A Productive Day

Torelli has a list of things he tries to do as many of as possible every morning and while he does give us the list, his first point is about experimenting for yourself.

Neeme Takes On New Orleans' Bars

Neeme takes the camera for a walk through the stories streets of New Orleans’, passing through from what look like old West facade’s into trendy cocktail bars and sawdust restaurants.

Live Poker Events, 8 years ago

PartyPoker Live Tour Announcement

As the EPT is retired and rebranded, it looks as though PartyPoker are stepping into the ring with their own set of live, branded tournaments.

Movie Review - God of Gamblers III: Return to Shanghai

Return to Shanghai continues the adventures of the Saint of Gamblers (Steven Chow), now fully trained by the God of Gamblers.

The Advantage Player: Poker and BlackJack Vlogger

Advantage Player’s new channel aims to go beyond just poker and into the world of card counting at the blackjack tables and – he promises – other forms of advantage play.

The Bank of Timex Is Back

Mike McDonald has relaunched the Bank of Timex as Poker Shares. The new site is in public Beta at the moment and the only currency available is Euros.

Jake Cody: Half The World Away

​Jake Cody’s most recent vlogging post takes a look forward a little ways into the new year, and a little ways back at his December visit to Prague.

YouTube Poker Vloggers: 2017 BOOM

The poker world has been trying to fill TV void over 2016 and poker players are picking up the camera themselves now and talking into it. A lot. 2017 will be the year of the poker vlog.

Jeff Boski The Raw Vlogger Winning It All

Now is a good time to start watching Boski’s vlog, he seems to be on a bit of a run pretty sick having taken down a $225 rebuy at the Wynn and followed it up with another first place in the same tourney.

Ryan Fee: Five Goals for Poker Success

Ryan Fee’s recent YouTube video / article combo over at Upswing has taken a lot of the work out of goal setting for you. If you're serious about the game, these are the five things you should be doing.

Dirty Dealing With W. C. Fields

W. C. Fields was one of the earliest comedic film stars who, more often than not, played a shark or hustler.

Vegas High Roller Vlogs It All

The session by session style of the blog means that we get to see Neeme go busto early, take the occasional bad beat and wrestle with the existential difficulties of the pro’s life.