Luck definitely plays a role in poker. Late in tournaments luck seems to play a pivotal role much to often. The debates about what luck is go around and around. Whatever your feelings on luck, there is little argument that Layne Flack (left) was on the bad end of it when his [...]

With a below average stack in the middle stages of the 5k NL WSOP Event #21, Liz Lieu (pictured right) caught the break she needed at just the right time.
On a flop of 647, Gavin Smith led for 700 and Andy Black raised to 2k. Lieu 4-bet all-in for 8200. Smith folded (which he later said was [...]