About the Author

Curtis Mayfield III

Curtis Mayfield III is a freelance poker writer with several years of online and live experience.

He is also the son of R&B superstar Curtis Mayfield. As a player Curtis excels in all forms of poker and prefers No Limit Deep Stacks tournaments.

Curtis is author of the Do or Die Poker blog

He resides in Chicago, Illinois with his wife and 2 daughters.

Favorite Quote: “In order to live, you must be willing to die!” –Amir Vahedi

High Stakes Robbery on EPT

Imagine sitting in EPT minding your own business when all of the sudden you are asked to leave the poker tournament and whisked away by security. Well that is exactly what happened to players on the European Poker Tour in Berlin, Germany. Once the tournament had played down to the last twenty four players they were all asked to leave the room.

During that time the Grand Hyatt Hotel was being robbed of some 6 masked gunmen of what has been reported of as much as $1.5 million dollars. The gunmen were alleged to have been brandishing grenades in addition to automatic weapons. No one was hurt and play resumed four hours after the incident took place.