Jim Makos Blog

According to official poker rankings, I have won $25,000 in online poker tournaments in 2011. That places me 80th in the Greek online poker rankings of this year, although they don’t track my Ongame results, leaving about 3K out of the equation. Although the best cash happened at Full Tilt Poker taking down the first [...]

I’m leaving tomorrow for Porto Carras to play in the GSOP Live Greece. Grand Series of Poker is a live poker tournament who visits Greece for the first time hosting an event of 400 poker players from all over the world paying $1,500 as buy-in. Since I have won a seat through a Partypoker satellite, [...]

I won 2 GSOP packages for the forthcoming live poker tournament taking place at Porto Carras Grand Resort in October and I’m putting one of them for sale. The package includes the $1,650 GSOP Greece main event buy-in and 5 nights’ accommodation at Porto Carras Hotel for a total of $2,900. The two packages come [...]

Facebook and Twitter is the favorite choices of many poker pros, who will use the social networking websites to communicate with their friends and fans, in order to keep them updated of their performance in the EPT Grand Final poker tournament that is starting on 7th of May. That is why I also have setup [...]

It’s been a few days since I posted my disbelief that PokerStars would honor the won EPT packages, but I have been assured by a PokerStars Online Pro Challenger that EPT Grand Final in Madrid will take place as planned. Additionally, many twoplustwo.com posters have verified the same, after contacting with PokerStars stuff so I [...]

The WSOP is the crown jewel of the poker world. To win a single WSOP event makes the career of many amateur and professional poker players alike. But, what is the WSOP, how can you get there, and does practicing on online poker sites increase your chances of winning? What Is The WSOP? The WSOP, [...]

I haven’t been a poker tournament player as I prefer playing cash games. I only register in major Sundays’ tournaments in case lady luck decides to let me win one of those. Last Sunday I also played the satellite tournament (€100 buy-in) for the €1,100 Greek Poker Cup in Casino Loutraki, the largest live poker [...]