An accomplished college basketball player and middle-distance runner with great potential, Doyle Brunson appeared to have a successful sporting career ahead of him until a summer job in a gypsum plant in the 1950s changed that trajectory immeasurably and ultimately gave rise to perhaps the greatest legend the world of professional poker has seen. With…
Just about every poker player on the planet knows that a pair of black aces and eights are “dead man’s hand” and that the reason harks back to when Wild Bill Hickok was shot in the back of the head while holding them in a game of five-card stud in Deadwood, South Dakota. But the…
Into its second decade, Wales Comic Con is now an established fixture in the programme of events taking place at Glyndwr University and will draw an impressive array of media personalities to Wrexham at the end of April, with Richard Dean Anderson, Sam Neill, Kiefer Sutherland and Ron Perlman just some of the household names…
Next month pubs across Britain will play host to the World’s Biggest Pub Quiz. Now in it’s fourth year, the PubAid-organised event will see the nation getting quizzical for some great causes including Prostate Cancer UK and many other local charities. In 2018 more than 1,500 venues took part, raising £190,000 in the process, with…
It’s a new day and a new dawn for Redtooth Poker today, with the UK’s biggest pub poker league getting even bigger with the amalgamation of the Champions Poker league into the fold. With the first 13-week season of 2019 about to shuffle up and deal from tonight, more pubs than ever will be welcoming…
