Geoff Fisk

Upon getting into a career in poker media, one begins to dream of destinations to visit and hopefully get to attend while doing live event coverage.

Geoff Fisk’s dream destination has long been Barcelona, and he’s now in Spain working during PokerStars’ 2019 European Poker Tour festival in the Catalonian capital.

In this personal piece, he reflects on what it’s like to finally be living that long-held dream.

Just ahead of the 2019 PokerStars European Poker Tour Barcelona Main Event, Geoff Fisk sat down with PokerStars Team Pro Andre Akkari for an interview.

We learn more about Andre’s preparations for this annual tournament, what he loves about the Barcelona tour stop, what it means for him to represent PokerStars and much more!

When first getting into poker media work, Geoff Fisk dreamed of covering international events, with his top destination being Barcelona, Spain. He’ll be getting the chance to realize his dream at the 2019 PokerStars’ EPT Barcelona festival.

This post previews the top five things he’s looking forward to as he prepares to embark on his maiden journey to the Catalonian capital.

After landing a gig doing live reporting for PokerNews during the 2019 World Series of Poker, Geoff Fisk came away with loads of fun and unique experiences.

Here’s Geoff’s recap of his seven weeks working in Las Vegas, offering a unique and interesting perspective on what it was like to witness and experience poker’s Mecca in peak season.

Working toward a big dream comes in little steps, little pieces. If there’s something you want to do in life, think about what the very first step would be in moving toward that dream. And keep stepping, keep striding, keep running with it!

That’s what Geoff Fisk did when he made the decision that he wanted to be a poker writer. Here’s the story of his journey down that career path.

Names like Andrew Neeme, Brad Owen, and Jaman Burton are already familiar to fans of poker vlogging, but the medium has attracted numerous new talents who are gaining fan bases of their own.

Here are seven of the top new poker vloggers making big names for themselves in 2019.

The Solve For Why crew treated the poker community to three excellent vlog series on its YouTube channel in 2018, specifically during the WSOP. Then, the videos abruptly stopped appearing.

Geoff Fisk takes a retrospective look at the popular Solve For Why vlogs, featuring feedback and quotes from two of the video creators Matt Berkey and Christian Soto, and looks ahead to what’s next for the Solve For Why crew and if fans can expect more fun video pokertainment in the near future.

Over its short few years of existence, Run It Up Reno has become synonymous with fun times, great poker, and enjoyable experiences at an away from the felt.

With Run It Up Reno VIII set to take place soon, from April 12-22, Geoff Fisk spoke with the brands founder, Jason Somerville, to discuss what makes his live events so special and beloved among members of the poker community.

If you’re a poker fan, you’d undoubtedly agree that 2018 was a great year. The calendar year was packed with highlights almost too numerous to list.

With so many great players, moments, and developments in the poker world, it was tough to limit a recap to just the top 10 things that were good for poker, but that’s what Geoff Fisk has done in this list.

If you’re familiar with the poker world at all, it’s easy to get a sense of who the most popular players are at any given time. For hard stats to back up player popularity, however, you’ve got to look to the Hendon Mob.

As poker fans the world over love looking up the stats of their favorite players, it’s easy to determine which poker pros are currently the most popular and which have enjoyed longstanding popularity for years. Here’s an in-depth look at the Hendon Mob’s poker player popularity charts.

New to the market, Blind Valet was developed in order to assist with the organization of poker home game tournaments and leagues. It’s many useful features enable anyone to run and organize tournaments – both large and small. Time-saving and solving all manner of tournament registration and facilitation logistics with ease, it takes all the stress and work out of making tournaments happen for your league or home game crowd. Thus, even the tournament organizer can just take it easy and focus on playing; everything else as far as running the show is all taken care of.

Here’s our review of Blind Valet, which comes in four pricing tiers that offer all manner of additional functionalities. A poker night and poker league is only as good as it’s organization. This product ensures top-notch organization each and every time.

Unfortunately, some of the once-biggest names in poker end up becoming the subject of questions like “what ever happened to that guy?” The true greats of the game, however, manage to pull themselves together and stage mighty comebacks to return to prominence.

In this article we list 7 of the best big name poker players to have mounted career comebacks. It’s not a complete list, but those who appear on it are certainly deserving of mention.