Robbie Strazynski

Living a Cardplayer Lifestyle affords poker players with tremendous freedom as well as the opportunity to travel the world playing the game they love. It’s important, however, to not just limit what you see to the inside of casinos and poker rooms, and to also enjoy the great places you travel to for poker.

While covering the 2018 EPT Barcelona, I took a day off to explore the city. This post details the sights and sounds that greeted me, and relates my experiences better than any pictures could capture.

A huge team of PokerStars staff is out in full force at the 2018 EPT Barcelona making sure that all of the events being held as part of the festival are running smoothly. To help attach some names and faces to the otherwise “nameless and faceless,” I thought it would be nice to chat with a few of them and briefly tell their stories.

Let’s get to know some members of the PokerStars live events team and together appreciate the great work they do to help facilitate Europe’s largest poker festival of the year.

Poker is watched by millions of fans worldwide, many of whom have never had the opportunity to attend live events in person. One of our readers sent in a question, wanting to know “how that works” and what the rules for proper etiquette and conduct are for fans at a poker tournament.

Lance Bradley, Donnie Peters, and Remko Rinkema form our panel of poker experts this month to answer our reader’s question based on their unique experience and current jobs within the poker industry.

The 2018 EPT Barcelona stop is one of the biggest poker tournament series of the year and I’m looking forward to attending and taking part in the festivities for the first time. In anticipation of the fun I know I’ll have, I’ve listed five of the top things I’m excited to soon experience.

Over my time at the 2018 Unibet Open Bucharest, I took a number of pictures to help me remember the great times I had there. I’ve curated them through multiple Tweets and have also published a video highlight clip to help capture what the entire experience was like.

I hope you enjoy experiencing the trip “through my eyes” and that it’ll perhaps convince you that attending a Unibet Open event is a worthwhile proposition.

If you were a poker fan between 2003-2011, you’re likely familiar with the Tao of Poker blog, and it’s founder Paul McGuire. I’m thrilled to have had the opportunity to interview Paul and learn about his career in poker media, and the story of his blog from inception until he decided to set down his pen.

I hope that this look a part of poker’s recent past will give you some additional appreciation for those who blazed the trail and paved the way for the current poker media corps.

Dara O’Kearney found poker relatively late in life, after the age of 40. In the decade since, he’s gone on to become one of Ireland’s most successful players, both in the live and online realms. He’s also scored a coveted sponsorship deal with Unibet, which is exceedingly rare for anyone over the age of 50 to have.

Dara is committed to using his platform for advancing the cause of growing the game of poker in general, but by marketing it to older players in particular. We talk about this, as well as his entire career arc and how he first got into the game in this interview.

Twitter is a great tool to help someone express oneself, but oftentimes tweets require the proper context to be fully appreciated.

During a recent trip to Las Vegas, I sent out a couple tweets about one day apart. Together, when one knows the full context surrounding them, they tell quite the poker tale. In this article, I give the context of those poker tweets. I hope you enjoy the story.

One of the kindest, friendliest poker ambassadors out there is David Lappin, the Irishman who proudly represents Unibet Poker.

In this 40-minute video interview, we take a look at David’s career in poker since he began over a decade ago and listen to him chart out what his life has been like since first starting to play the game

It’s a delightful interview with a great person, for whom we couldn’t be happier that he’s found success in poker and life.

Next up in our ongoing Get to Know the Poker Media series is Valerie Cross. Despite a relatively short career in poker media thus far, she’s certainly made her mark. In this interview, Valerie talks about how she wants to use her platform – to promote the game of poker to more women – as well as her goals as a player and professional.

Let’s get to know the very talented person behind the byline.

Unibet Opens typically run four times a year for under a week each, but it takes months of preparation to put each event together. Heading the Live Events team is Nataly Sopacuaperu, a driven woman with a tremendous passion for poker.

In this interview, we learn about Nataly’s background in the game, what the day-to-day routines are like at her job, and pull back the curtain a bit about her personal life.

If you find yourself somewhere in Europe, itching to play poker, it can be a daunting task to try and find a local place to play. Enter the PokerList app, which does all the research for you!

Wherever you are in Europe, PokerList will provide you with all the information you need to guide you to the closest poker room so you can jump right into the action. Available in a dozen countries (and counting), you can download the app for free!