It’s easier to lose money fast than to win money fast. Many of us have discovered that weeks and weeks of patient bankroll building can be destroyed in just a few hours (or even a few catastrophic minutes) of online play. We’ve learned, in other words, that while winning is slow labour, losing can happen […]
Short-handed poker, simply put, is about the people and not so much about the cards in your hand. The fact that you can’t just sit there without the blinds taking a toll means that one will be forced to play real poker. This makes a lot of these tight players total fish at a short-handed […]
At first blush, emotional intelligence would seem to be an oxymoron, like organized chaos or forgettable memory. After all, intelligence is all about the intellect and emotion is all about the gut. But to be a successful poker player, you have to be able to use your intellect to monitor your gut, and make sure […]
It is generally agreed that blackjack is the oldest card game history records and that it is a highly profitable game as well. About this second part, many players may state the opposite. However, for those who don’t win at blackjack, they should know that their bad luck is due to their lack of strategy. […]
To make an anagram, as you no doubt know (wood nut knob), just re-scramble (cram rebels) the letters of a name, creating. The fun and value of the game lies not in generating the anagram (hell, any half-intelligent computer can do that) but in divining meaning from the results like reading tea leaves or rune […]
A hand touching any discards is dead. If a player leaves his cards sitting unprotected on the table in front of him, and someone’s discard accidentally falls on those cards, the hand is dead. If a player discards his hand prematurely, it is dead if it hits any discards. (Some clubs even call a hand dead if […]
What is it about online poker that makes us want to play it to the point of needing to play it? It’s not the money. It can’t be the money. If it were, the sensible majority of us would long ago have turned to more reliable revenue streams like insurance fraud or selling the contents […]
Wrong attitude: Entering a poker game hoping to get lucky and win your opponents’ money. Right attitude: Entering a poker game and realizing that your opponents are holding your money, and they will need to be very lucky to keep it. If you’re a skillful poker player, then you should enter a game expecting to […]
Doyle Brunson is our first guinea pig in the search for truth. Doyle was playing in the WSOP in its infancy, back when the field was small enough to play at one or two tables. His first bracelet came in 1976 in the Main Event. Since then, he’s managed to win nine more in a […]
There was a time that poker was a man’s game. Of course, that’s not true anymore; poker is very much a co-ed game. There are many women poker players today, and they’re welcome every place the game is played. But, the majority of poker players are men and, whether they are poker players or not, […]
There have been myriad movies about gambling, gamblers and the fool’s paradise that is Vegas. In many cases, the protagonist comes away with a valuable life lesson, generally along the lines of “stop while you’re ahead” or “you can get away with murder in this godless place.”But there are other, equally valuable lessons to be […]
Modified Limit Hold’em — Also known as “fixed limit hold’em” this variation is usually played for very small stakes. The maximum bet is capped by a certain dollar amount, usually mandated by local law. No bet can be larger than the allowable dollar amount needed to reach that figure. Progressive Limit Hold’em — Progressive limit hold’em uses […]