Jim Makos Blog

I have played thousands of poker hands with Randy Lew, also known as Nanonoko at online poker tables. Now Poker Stars will try to increase their popularity and possibly attract even more customers by having Nanonoko attempt to set or break a Guinness World Record at the Caribbean Adventure, PCA in short. Poker Stars have [...]

A good home poker game with your mates can be a great way of spending an evening. Here are a few tips on making sure the night goes as smoothly as possible. First things first, everyone sitting at the table must know the basic rules of play. Make sure that everyone is comfortable with the [...]

Surely EPT won’t be brought to us by PokerStars.com! According to several twoplustwo.com posters, EPT Packages for San Remo or Madrid won’t be honored by PokerStars in the end. Replies by pokerstars.eu say that they can’t verify if players who won the EPT packages are actually registered in the poker tournaments, although there was one [...]

It must have been the worst time ever to win an EPT Grand Final Madrid seat right before Black Friday of online poker. My package that includes 7-night accommodation, EUR10,600 buy-in and EUR750 for expenses is already in jeopardy, although PokerStars claim that the money and packages are safe. After last Friday’s events when the [...]

In the 1912, Summer Olympics held in Stockholm Sweden, American George Horine broke the men’s high jump record when he leapt an incredible 2.00m into the air without knocking the bar onto the ground. In 1993, Javier Sotomayor from Cuba broke that record for the 46th time when he leapt 2.45m into the air without [...]

2 years ago I had posted a story about rumours that texas hold’em poker was about to be allowed in Greek casinos, but evidently that was not the case. Now such a development seems more favorable, as popular Greek poker forums claim it is a matter of days until the law is published in the [...]

According to pokertableratings.com, my performance at 100NL tables today was top notch as I won 12BB/100 for almost 7,000 hands. Compared to all players from the most popular poker rooms I managed to make the most and be the top winner at 100NL for the day.

I kind of expected such a day. After all I had moved up to $25-50 NL tables and a 6 buy-in downswing was inevitable. I’m happy though since I didn’t play bad and most of the money were lost due to bad beats. Here are a couple of interesting daily and monthly graphs and stats, [...]

Supernova Elite is the ultimate Pokerstars VIP status and it can achieved on a yearly basis. I have constantly been achieving Supernova status in the last years and I have set one of my primary goals for 2010 to become one of the few Supernova Elites at Pokerstars. By becoming a SNE I will enjoy [...]

According to the Cumberland News, an online poker addiction had caused former Carlisle mayor, Jayne Prewitt, to steal and lie about a £60,000 debt to an online poker room. Prewitt recalls that at one point she had arranged her own suicide to free herself from a gambling addiction. Prewitt made headlines this week as she [...]