Since I’m writing this on the flight on the way to Washington DC, I guess this represents the first traveling journal entry. The last 2 weeks have been pretty hectic: between being tour guide for my wife’s family, transitioning to the web team at work, and preparing for my conference presentation, I’m pretty drained. Hopefully [...]
A big thank you goes to Todd Mummert for the research and analysis involved in this report. The key decision any hold’em player makes is whether or not to play the starting 2 card hand they are dealt. And, if so, how to play it. We present here some valuable new facts. Our Model We [...]
So why dedicate precious hours of life hunched over a card table in complete concentration? I guess it’s because the poker table is one of the few places where concentration and knowledge is immediately rewarded, while mistakes are immediately punished. After giving up football, I needed an arena to compete in, something that required complete [...]
The greatest football tournament on earth will play out in South Africa this June and you can win luxury prize packages and experience all the action. With the PokerStars Soccer Safari you could be cheering on your team to glory in the final July 11 – all for free! There are an incredible 30 prize [...]
Like most, I started playing poker with friends. We gathered around the table every Monday night, broke out our cheap plastic chips, and started passing coin around the table. It was a lot of fun. Poker is a social game. If you are an internet player, you might not have a good grasp on that, [...]
“Whether he likes it or not, a man’s character is stripped bare at the poker table; if the other players read him better than he does, he has only himself to blame. Unless he is both able and prepared to see himself as others do, flaws and all, he will be a loser in cards, [...]
More and more, I see a growing trend in online beginners playing Pot Limit Omaha (PLO) and Pot Limit Omaha Hi/Lo (PLO8) without understanding the importance of pre-flop play and hand selection. Some online players believe you should never raise pre-flop, but limp with about anything. Other online players believe you should raise with any [...]
“Look wise, say nothing, and grunt. Speech was given to conceal thought.” – Sir William Osler A quick post to recount one of the most memorable hands I’ve ever participated in. Welcome to Hollywood Park, the place where the gambler’s dreams can come true. Any two cards will do, no matter what limit you’re playing. [...]
Over the years, I have witnessed many things in poker that I could group into a single category. Some of these things were strange, some were not strange at all, but they all had one thing in common: they needed a word to describe them (or, at least, they needed a better word to describe [...]
“Isildur1″, a name that sounds like it should be in J.R.R. Tolkien’s Lord of the Rings, is actually the name of a poker player that has caused much excitement and controversy in the world of poker. Isildur1 burst onto the poker scene back in September of 2009 and immediately caused some major damage in the [...]
