Brad Willis

2 months ago | poker.org | Adam Hampton |James L. Hartigan |Brad Willis |Sarah Herring

You may sometimes see a player go almost all-in -- perhaps at a final table of a tournament -- but leave a chip or two behind. The strategic reason for this is that, if there’s a big pay-jump coming with the next elimination, the player who is almost all-in has the chance to fold if players behind them shove their entire stacks. Jim Reid of our Player Advisory Board wrote a great two-part article on this very topic.

Nov 20, 2024 | poker.org | Adam Hampton |Brad Willis |Lee Jones |Chris Land

First-off, there are as many routes into the poker industry as there are people working within it. While content creators, YouTubers, streamers and other on-camera talent may be very visible, that’s just the tip of a large iceberg when it comes to a career in the poker world. It’s a whole industry, and there are opportunities for all kinds of people to find a place.

Nov 20, 2024 | poker.org | Brad Willis |Lee Jones |LoriAnn Persinger |Jennifer Shahade

I've told this story a few times, but nearly 20 years ago, I played poker in a fireworks warehouse that doubled as a poker room and trebled as a weekly circus. On this cold night, there was a four-figure jackpot on offer, a bench press competition, and a Ping-Pong match that—based on the screaming from the audience—carried the world’s fate on its outcome.

Nov 18, 2024 | poker.org | Chris Land |James L. Hartigan |Brad Willis |Joey Ingram

Obviously, there's been some great coverage of the WSOP Main Event over the years. The easy answer is the 2003 coverage where the world watched an amateur from Tennessee turn the poker world upside down, but as obvious an answer as that might be, it's not my favorite year of coverage. For me, 2005 was the year. I had been into poker heavily for about a year after first playing in my freshman year of college in 2004.

Nov 7, 2024 | poker.org | Brad Willis

Humanity's most earnest wear their hearts on their sleeves, the same place where PokerStars' most dedicated wear their iconic red PokerStars spade. Today in Las Vegas, the people behind PokerStars' year-long re-emergence in the USA added something to their public wardrobe: a giant roadmap, one that drew a clear and straight line from the internal company strategy to how PokerStars sees itself covering the American map.