Joseph Ewens

Posts by jewens:

• Wider World of Poker

  PokerStars' inventions, volatile Spaniards, and surly Serbs.

  17 Feb 2012

  Wow, what a week it’s been. All of those events that happened! Do you remember the one with the things? What about the person who was doing all that behaviour? Oh, the stories we will tell our grandchildren. That’s the kind of introduction I’d love to have written, but in reality it’s been a humble [...]

• Wider World of Poker

  A departed veteran, gambling for profit, Hansen's big game, and minor-celebrity poker

  09 Feb 2012

  I live under the thumb of a tyrannical regime. My actions are dictated by the whims of shadowy figures, who move throughout the country, placing their targets under de facto house arrest while they wait for many tortuous hours. Then, just when you we think the danger has past, a doorbell announces their arrival. In [...]

• Wider World of Poker

  Phil's Millions, Regulators make new friends, black-slapping awards, and ultimate melancholy

  02 Feb 2012

  There’s a muffin waiting for me at the end of this article. Yes, I have stooped so low as to require sugary bribes for motivation. Not an English muffin, either. Those are no good for inducement. Only the sickly American variety has the requisite density of glucose and cocoa. There we go. Not one paragraph [...]

• Wider World of Poker

  Americans Down Under, Portuguese Blockades, Airport Blackjack, and Brits Team Up

  26 Jan 2012

  Oh, hello. Fancy meeting you here. Have you been sitting patiently, waiting for this wandering reporter to return from his new year sabbatical? What’s that? You’ve been reading all the other posts on Pokerati. This site has other writers!? Well, while I’m recovering from that bombshell, why not take a good long look at this [...]

• Wider World of Poker

  Justice, Nobility, CEOs, and French People.

  04 Jan 2012

  This is the bleakest time of year. When festivities have faded, but the bitter cold maintains its grip. A time when you are forced to chain yourself to the grindstone for another 12 months, as fresh-faced resolutions are crushed under the weight of your own inescapable weakness. Sorry about that. Maybe I can cheer you [...]

• Wider World of Poker

  Two helpings of danish, a departing Aussie, and PokerStars' latest series

  21 Dec 2011

  Have you done your Christmas shopping yet? Seriously, it’s getting pretty close. I don’t think your mother is going to appreciate that pack of novelty playing cards you found in some old jeans or a clay poker chip stolen from the Pokerati game. Now that I’ve worked you up into a lather, your brain should [...]

• Wider World of Poker

  Irish want gold, nanonoko wants Guinness, French slip up, some people plan madness

  15 Dec 2011

  I’d like to start this week’s column by congratulating my fellow countryman James Dempsey on his victory at the WPT Five Diamond World Poker Classic. To celebrate, here is a patriotic picture. British people are required to carry similar images on their person at all times. It’s why we’re such a cynical and self-deprecative nation. [...]

• Wider World of Poker

  Winning is outlawed, Blighty puts in all on black, and the watchmen are watched

  07 Dec 2011

  The icy tendrils of winter are tightening their grip on the northern hemisphere and my sugar intake has increased 4000%. It’s December! Which, for the poker world, means not much at all. The felt is green all year round and money tastes as sweet as ever. Unless you play on Bodog or Everleaf, but we’ll [...]

• Wider World of Poker

  Ivey’s new home game, German PokerStadia, and exciting news for UK Facebook gamblers.

  01 Dec 2011

  This week we’re heading back to Macau – the Las Vegas of the Orient – to discover why Phil Ivey was really hanging out at the APPT. Here’s a clue: It has to do with playing poker for stupid amounts of money. Plus, a social media development that will surely plunge my homeland into an [...]

• Wider World of Poker

  Ivey returns from exile, IPF reward skill, and poker pros brawl in the sunshine.

  23 Nov 2011

  This week, my continent graciously released a delegation of Frenchman into your capitol. Had they to craned their necks around for a look back across the tumbling expanse of ocean, they might have seen a fallen hero re-emerging, nations sparring on the felt, and one of their countrymen getting kicked in the head. Stay tuned [...]