Noah Boeken Bio

After a great party week on Ibiza, the best island in the world, I finally returned home to get back to business and play the PokerStars WCOOP. The PokerStars World Championship of Online Poker has always been a very exciting tournament series for me, one I look forward to a...more

by Noah Boeken Poker started for me a few years after I found out that there was a Master Classics of Poker. I saw an ad once on TV; it was for one of Europe's biggest poker tournaments held in the Amsterdam Holland Casino each year. At the time I...more

by Noah Boeken Winning WCOOP Heads-up tournaments has always been a huge goal of mine. Having watched fellow Dutchman Rob Hollink win the Heads-up in the first WCOOP ever, I was eager to follow in his footsteps and take this tournament down. Unluckily for me I was met with my...more

"O-68" called the former gas company meter reader turned Friday night bingo ball caller. Bob Underton looked down at his bingo card in disgust again, waiting patiently for B-14 to be called for the past seven numbers after nailing the first three for a shot at four number bingo...more

For players seeking hold'em action in WCOOP today, they had only one choice, and that was Event 26. And it was an equal mix of limit and no-limit hold'em, alternating with 10-minute levels. If that wasn't enough, the tournament was set up as the ever-popular six-max format. Not a bad...more

Bill Chen is many things: mathematics whizz, double WSOP bracelet winner, author and long-time Friend of PokerStars. But did you hear the one about Bill Chen, Wedding Planner? No, thought not. Yesterday, Chen showed up for day three of the $3,000 HORSE tournament at the World Series in a pristine...more