Sacramento’s J.C. Tran: WPT Player of the Year
By Arnold Warner

There isn’t much debate about whether J.C. Tran of Sacramento is one of the top Texas Hold ’em tournament players around; however, until recently, he was in the running for “best player not to have won a major.” He took care of that hole in his resume by winning the WPT’s World Poker Challenge in Reno last March. He followed it up with a strong showing in the WPT World Championship in Las Vegas, and was recently named the World Poker Tour’s Season V Player of the Year.. click here to read the whole article!

My most memorable hands
By Davin Anderson

As poker players, we all play hands that become forever ingrained in our memories. We remember them vividly for the extreme pleasure and ecstasy, as well as the pain and torture that these moments have brought to our lives. Here are a few of mine.

Morning at the Taj
One of the biggest pots I was ever involved in was about four years ago, when I was playing fulltime poker at the Taj Mahal in Atlantic City. It was a Saturday morning, and I had strolled down from my suite to the high stakes area of the poker room. click here to read the whole article!

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Traveling along the blue highways
By Randall Rapp

Sometimes a good poker trip takes you a bit off the beaten path, where your map’s red lines (interstates) become the blue lines of two-lane highways. You’re surrounded by farmland, rolling hills, and tons of insects hitting the windshield. Such was the case with your Ambassador’s most recent excursion into the North Sacramento Valley. click here to read the whole article!

You go girl: Women invading poker
By Robin Matteri

Don’t underestimate the power of women.

Okay … I said it. What a relief to finally get that off my chest!

 I truly had no intention of discussing this topic even though women in the world of poker are becoming more prevalent, and even though I’m willing to bet we’ll have a female WSOP champion before Hillary Clinton is elected president. But, something happened tonight while I was dealing cards that changed my perception of women poker players forever. click here to read the whole article!