Chris Land

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 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.

Oct 22, 2024 | poker.org | Chris Land

Want all of the stories, photos, and results from every WSOP Circuit stop? Sign up for The Circuit newsletter and we'll drop it in your inbox. After three long starting flights and a brutal Day 2 session, eight players bagged up chips for the grand finale of the WSOP Circuit Main Event at Harrah's Pompano Beach Casino in Florida. When those eight players returned on Monday, all of them had the same goal in mind — to claim a WSOPC Main Event ring by day's end.

Jun 22, 2024 | poker.org | Chris Land

Mark Seif is a back-to-back WSOP bracelet winner who struck gold twice in a week at the 2005 WSOP - first in a $1,500 NLHE Shootout for $181,330 and then in a $1,500 NLHE for another $611,145. With over $3 million in tournament winnings, the former attorney knows his way around a poker table and the rulebook, but that didn’t stop him from falling foul of the floor deep in the Seniors event at this year’s WSOP.

Mar 5, 2024 | medium.com | Chris Land

Why can’t we find good employees? When I was in my teens and 20s people in their 50s would complain that the younger generation are lazy and have no work ethic. Now that I’m in my 50s, people my age complain that teens and 20somethings are lazy and have no work ethic. They were wrong then. We’re wrong now. We live in a world where 95% of the people who want a job have a job.