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Magazine Feature: Playing With Ivey

By Bryan Mileski

Phil Ivey has won eight World Series of Poker bracelets and one World Poker Tour title.  He has reached twenty-eight WSOP final tables and nine WPT final tables.  Ivey is regarded by most poker players and observers as the best all-around player in the world today.  … READ MORE

Magazine Feature: I Have People Skills!

By Chris “Fox” Wallace – www.TourneyTracks.com, www.foxpoker.com

When I first got serious about poker, I loved the excitement, the money, and the competition. I’ve been playing poker for a living for eight years, and the bloom is off the rose when it comes to excitement, the money isn’t as good as it used to be, … READ MORE

Magazine Feature: Matt Kirby Wins MSPT Northern Lights, $47,070

The Mid-States Poker Tour invaded Northern Lights Casino in Walker, MN, May 12-20, for the third consecutive season since the MSPT Tour Launch in December, 2009.  This year’s attendance at the Northern Lights stop rose dramatically, doubling in numbers for almost every single preliminary qualifier compared to the 2011 event.  … READ MORE

Magazine Feature: A Battle with Mark “PokerHo” KROON

By Chris “Fox” Wallace – Featured in the May issue of Minnesota Poker Magazine

Last month in Iowa, I got to play with one of my favorite players.  Mark “PokerHo” Kroon was one of the first people to be well known for playing online poker.  As a ranked player in the early days of pocketfives.com … READ MORE

Magazine Feature: Your Poker IQ is Defined by Understanding Many Facets of Poker

By Kou Vang – Featured in May issue of Minnesota Poker Magazine

Understanding your opponent’s capabilities, along with knowledge of board textures and hand reading skills, will help make life a lot less stressful for you at the poker table.  Well, sort of.  It depends on who you’re up against.  In this instance I was … READ MORE

Magazine Feature: Shark Eyes

By Chris “Fox”Wallace - TourneyTracks.com

Learning to identify a strong player as quickly as possible can help you avoid making precious mistakes (like playing hands with them) and also help you to camouflage your own abilities.  In a recent Vegas trip where I played some higher buy-in events with strong fields, I did a lot of … READ MORE

Magazine Feature: What The Best Do…That You Don’t

How is that certain players like Everett Carlton, Erick Wright or Kou Vang consistently make deep, top-5 runs?  What makes them better than everyone else?  Do they just run better every time? 

Elite players can often come in different forms.  For instance, Dan Harrington plays a much different style than ElkY Grospellier, but they are … READ MORE

Magazine Feature: Out-Foxed: A Hand With Kou Vang

By Chris “Fox” Wallace

Like many players in Minnesota, I underestimated Kou Vang.  This isn’t terribly embarrassing, I didn’t know anything about him and had not played with him when I made my mistake, and it didn’t cost me much.  I simply bet on Everett Carlton when the MSPT event at Canterbury Park was three … READ MORE

February Feature: Nate Fair 2011 Player of the Year

2011 was an amazing year for Nate Fair!  He got married in June, finished a new home and somehow still found time to play poker and capture Minnesota Poker Magazine’s Player of the Year honors!

Fair finished the 2011 season with eleven Player of the Year cashes, 223 points and had a knack for running … READ MORE

If you can make it here…

By Chris “Fox” Wallace - Featured in February issue of Minnesota Poker Magazine 

Since Black Friday I’ve spent a lot of time on the road. Online poker paid my mortgage quite nicely for eight years, but that a few years without a job makes it tough to do anything else right away, so traveling to play was my … READ MORE

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