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Joss Wood
Joss is a former British Army officer, entrepreneur and professional poker player. Over the last 10 years Joss has written about all aspects of online gambling for numerous sites. After a career as an Army officer, he spent time in business before taking up online poker. He lives in Peru with his family.
Latest Articles By Joss Wood (11)
partypoker MILLIONS Beats $20 Million Guarantee To Produce The Richest Online Poker Tournament In History
After the fourth starting flight Dec. 4, partypoker succeeded in putting together the richest online poker tournament ever. There were a total of 4,367 entries. The event attracted 2,190 unique entries; the rest came from re-entries. At a $5,300 buy-in, it added up to a record-breaking prize pool of $21,835,000. https://twitter.com/partypoker/status/1069999232214597632...
The $3.5 Million GTD Good Game Series Is GGN's First Network Wide Online Poker Tournament Series
The Good Game Series (GGS) is the GGNetwork’s (GGN) first network-wide online tournament series. It isn’t starting small. Starting on November 18, the network will host 129 events with over...
Review: Phil Galfond's New Run It Once Poker Room In Beta Test
Shortly after the 2016 WSOP, Phil Galfond announced that he would launch his own online poker room. Two years later and the site is in beta test where a few...
888poker XL Eclipse Championships Make Most Of Opportunities To Win
888poker has finally released details of its Fall XL Eclipse Championships. Events begin on Sept. 13 and run through to Sept. 23. This is a critical time of the year...
PokerStars Joins The Parade Of Poker Rooms Hit By Latest DDoS Attacks
Any feelings of schadenfreude the regulated industry felt when Americas Cardroom got hit by Distributed Denial of Service (DDoS attacks) at the beginning of last week have completely evaporated as...
Italy Vote To End All Gambling Advertising Will Be Counter-Productive
Italy’s Senate has voted in favor of the “Dignity Decree” which includes provisions to ban all gambling advertising absolutely. In the short term, the impact is likely to be: a...
PokerStars Unfold Gives Players Two Chances To Win Each Hand
UPDATE August 6: PokerStars has given Unfold a permanent place in the poker client. The game was planned to take its turn in a rotation of similar innovations, but now...
MGM And GVC Partner For “Once In A Lifetime” Market Opportunity
MGM and GVC have announced a new joint venture to take advantage of the opportunities provided by the expansion of state regulated online sports betting in the US. Poker comes...
MPN Launches New Poker Software Platform
July 26 is a big day for online poker network MPN. The network is launching a completely new poker client which will be available on several skins including; RedKings, RedStar,...
PokerStars Enigmatically Introduces 'Unfold' As Its Newest Online Poker Variant
The latest in a line of innovative online poker variants from PokerStars looks like it will be called “Unfold.” Details on how Unfold will work are scanty, but as it...