You need a bit of gamble to make it in this game, says Marc Goodwin. He’d know…

What do you, Chris Ferguson and Daniel Negreanu have in common? Hopefully turning pittance into a small fortune with Carl Sampson’s help.

Team PokerStars pro Steve Paul-Ambrose joins the ranks of FLUSH to help you take on those massive online fields.

Bertrand Grospellier - we know him as Elky: online gaming celebrity, poker phenom and in it for the glory. He’s also about to punch Sorel Mizzi and thinks rhinos are not to be messed with. Come again?

$200.000 flips, infamous chat and pouring lime into his eyes; Ilari Sahamies isn't allcraziness though, as he talks to FLUSH about this latest project with Coinflip.com

If you think you’re not thinking about poker, Matt Broughton thinks it might be time to think again.

Team PokerStars pro Bertrand Grospellier takes time off from winning pretty much every tournament ever to discuss bet sizing.

OK, we’re not really bored of Texas Hold’em – if we were, we wouldn’t be crafting this lovely publication. We are intrigued by a new dice game from DiceArena, though, and we suspect you’ll like it too…

…it’s for life. Matt Broughton thinks it might be time to take a break.

Prepare yourself for a serious barrage of abbreviations and number crunching as Carl ‘The Dean’ Sampson takes a look at the tools out there that can lead you to SnG success.

Ever wondered what it takes to succeed in the high stakes online games? Carl Sampson is here to soothe your woes.

Anthropomhism - the hot word in the FLUSH office in the last month. While we might be lying just a little, we do use it in this article this article, as Matt Perry empties his mildly-warped mind all over our pages.

Tom Dwan is nothing if not mercurial. Arguably the best of the new generation of online pros, the 22 year-old has been taking the very biggest games the ‘net can offer and spanking them. So why on Earth is he calling out the best in the world and offering them 3 to 1 in a $1m challenge? FLUSH tries to figure it all out.

He saw out 2008 with a stormer of a win in the Premier Poker League and his poker posse have been tearing up the tables all year. But, JC Tran, just who is the sickest gambler in the group?

Mr. Cool tells us why he thinks certain poker players might be losing the thread.

Online pro Jonathan Farrer talks cash strategy in our latest nugget from the Betfair boys.

As the stuttering big boys gear up take on the minnows in Round 3 of the Cup. Jon Spurling takes a look at the big movers and shakers in the paddock.

He's got a cult status on Poker Room and is making a run a Vegas this summer. Watch out Sin City, Mark Baillie is after your cash.

No-nonsense funster Jon Huckle explores the wild world of re-buy MTTs. Watch out for the nutters!

No longer the preserve of cowboys and backroom brawlers, Five-card Draw is making a return to the fold. Carl Sampson investigates.

From hero to zero…or just plain stupid? Matt Broughton discusses…

Come with us as we fire up the De-Lorean and take a trip through time to count down the key moments in the history of the beautiful game.

In our second extract from Holden on Hold’em, the respected author takes a look at stack size and the concept of ‘M’.

A cracking year for Marc Goodwin came to an end with the GUKPT Grand Final.

We kick off the New Year with another old school get-together (our last for a while - honest) as we hook up with the vulnerable Hendon Mobsters Ross and Barney Boatmen. Get the beers in...

In the next part of our series on online MTTs, Carl Sampson chips in with some vital words of wisdom.

Take three low-level journos, give them a professional mentor each, $100 a day to play online with and watch them fly. But who came out Teacher’s Pet and who was heading for the dickhead class?

Take three low-level journos, give them a professional mentor each, $100 a day to play online with and watch them fly. But who came out Teacher’s Pet and who was heading for the dickhead class?

Take three low-level journos, give them a professional mentor each, $100 a day to play online with and watch them fly. But who came out Teacher’s Pet and who was heading for the dickhead class?

By day Noel Hayes is Operations Manager for paddypowerpoker.com; by night he is a poker GOD. His current game of choice is online Pot Limit Omaha and he can be found most evenings on the 1/2 and 2/4 tables. Noel improved his PLO game the hard way, and below he imparts what he sees as vital tips for those attempting the transition from online Hold’em to Pot Limit Omaha.

As you travel the poker road, don’t forget to stop and eat the fl owers, explains Matt Broughton.

'Life begins at 40', the saying goes, so come with us as we look back on the many faces of Flush since it launched way back in 2005. Now, where did we put our pipe and slippers?

Fluish travelled to the city of dreaming spires where the county's future primie ministers, rocket scientists and lawyers were busy doing battle over the felt.

Even the best players in the world need to keep it simple, as Marc Goodwin explains.

Poker legend Stu ‘The Kid’ Ungar died ten years ago this month. Matt Perry looks back on the life of a wasted (in every sense of the word) legacy.

It’s nice to be good, just don’t be unlucky, says Matt Broughton. Warning: May Contain Poker.

Currently running hotter than a hot water bottle that's taken a short holiday to Ibiza (and that's pretty hot). Kid poker Daniel Negreanu chatted to Flush about his storming year.

To mark the festive season, and 40 issues of Flush, we gathered some of the year's cover stars together for a very special knees-up

We're so ahead of the game here at Flush, we're starting our Christmas gifts review a tad early. Still, gives you enough time to get thinking about what to buy for your poker mates.

Pokerstars’ Ber trand ‘ElkY’ Grospellier pops by with tips on making that move to the higher level.

Knowing how much to bet is the most under-rated skill a poker player can possess, as Carl Sampson explains.

Maybe it was the economic meltdown; maybe it was something in the water. Whatever, September saw some of the biggest online pots of all time

This month’s guest, poker pro Jon Huckle, returns from Vegas (fi nally) where he found himself despairing of the tourist donks.

Sometimes the worst places can also be the best places, as Matt Broughton discovers.

New Flush columnist Marc ‘Mr. Cool’ Goodwin takes a look at the WSOPE and predicts a whitewash for the Europeans.

Liv somehow finds time to fi t the Poker Million and heavy metal into her busy schedule.

The sun finally shines on TheWaster, in Luton of all places.

If you’re finding that your once casual interest in poker has further mushroomed through the stages of habitual addiction and social affliction, you could well be missing a trick when it comes to the bankroll boosting properties of rakeback. Duncan Wilkie discusses the best ways to make your poker playing pay.

Carl Sampson discusses the intricacies of playing small pots in high-stakes Hold’em. ,Ooh, get him.

By now I hope you have read more than your fair share of articles about bankroll management, because in my mind it is the single most important and underused skill in poker (the 2nd being game selection).

We like a bit of continuity here at Flush, and so, after a few issues with the young hotshots taking centre stage, we went right to the other end of the spectrum and gathered some of the legends of the home-grown game. No shooters allowed.

Denied the chance of even the smallest cash game in the Vegas casinos this summer, 19 year old Annette Obrestad will get her fill when she returns to London this month to defend her WSOPE crown. We caught up with her in town as she prepares for the big one.

Looking for easy ways to win online? Head straight for the heads-up cash tables, says Barry Carter.

The latest weapon in the pro player’s arsenal is the sports psychologist, as Rob Blincoe discovers.

Still getting unstuck with that tricksy A-Qoff? Guy Downs is here to sort you out.

Sitting atop the European Rankings like a bestriding poker behemoth, Flush finds nup n’ coming Brit star Nik Persaud a little bemused (something to do with everyone misspelling his name perhaps?)…

If only you could see what TheWaster has seen with these eyes…

As we say farewell to Luca Pagano (for now), he refl ects on a World Series where his fellow countrymen were making all the noise.

Please be upstanding as we welcome a new columnist to Flush this month, up n’ coming Brit star, Liv Boeree.

Irish legend Padraig Parkinson was out in full force at the WSOP writing an online blog of his adventures. They were so good we thought we’d pluck a few of the choicest gems out for you. Enjoy.

With barely-contained glee, a spot of jetlag and a healthy dose of sunburn, the editor of a British poker magazine descends on Vegas for a shot at the big one (OK then, the reasonably-sized one). Can he bring back the goods to Blighty?

After seeing his name dragged through the mud in the aftermath of the Party Poker scandal, many people predicted a rapid decline for young American poker prodigy Justin ‘ZeeJustin’ Bonomo. Now, with his dues suitably paid and in the midst of a second successful World Series, Flush got back on the wagon with one of poker’s bright young things.

Mixing beauty, intelligence, a worryingly high geek rating and a mean poker game, 24-year old Jennifer ‘Jennicide’ Leigh is a star for the 21st Century

In the 2nd part of our series on online poker cheats, Ross Jarvis takes a look at the phenomenon of poker bots.

Just as WSOP kicked off we met up with some of the young British hotshots preparing to take on Vegas.

The nearly man of poker finally came good when he took down the Premier League Poker title. Flush caught up with the ‘Mad Monk’, Andy Black, to talk poker, Buddhism and beat-up Volkswagens...

One month ago, Flush sent Duncan Wilkie into the wilds of the West Country to cover the Sky Poker Boot Camp. He never returned. His diary mysteriously turned up at our desks last week.

With some high-profile cases of cheating and collusion in online poker games, Dave Bland asks the question on players’ lips: is online poker bent?

As the Irish Open draws near, we look back to a classic moment from the 2007 event, where tempers got, shall we say, a little frayed?

Jon Spurling returns with more footie madness.

VCpoker pro Barry Carter joins the ranks at Flush this month with some advice on hunting out the best online cash tables.