Guardian Series: The Stopper Bet
Victoria Coren
It’s quite fun, this Guardian experiment. They′re having a games slot every day - bridge, chess, that sort of thing - and I’m doing the poker one. It’s aimed at the fairly new player, who might have watched a bit of poker on TV and just started playing with their friends and wants a [...]
10th of October
Simon Galloway, 03/05/2007
Michael Martin
Another week, another dollar, for those that can win races, and another week of London-centric tournaments completed. First, the conclusion of the EPT London leg where pokerstars very generously added £25…
A Lesson in Omaha #3
I remember the day clearly when the penny finally dropped with me in how to play seven card stud well. It was when I read about the connections with hold’em (can’t remember where I read it now) and then everything just seemed to fall into place. Now I don’t play stud at all and haven’t [...]
Poker News Digest 8/30/2008 - 9/2/2008
The Mohegan Sun Casino in
Uncasville,
Brian Townsend Admits to Multi-Accounting
Brian Townsend, a CardRunners.com instructor and one of the most popular young internet poker …
WPT’s Fall Boot Camps
“Boot camp” is term generally given to the military training that turns a kid, whose greatest challenge in life was getting past the Nightmare level on Halo 2, into a well oiled fighting machine. This type of training usually involves trading one’s locks for a tacky camouflage wardrobe and the type of food that even [...]
Poker After Dark - Durr Does It Again
The $100k buy in event featured the best players out there, such as Phil Hellmuth, Tom Dwan, Allen Cunningham, Guy Laliberte, Mike Baxter and David Peat. It was Baxter and Dwar who mixed it up before, and were destined to do it again in this particular hand.
Poker After Dark - Hard to Read
All the players at poker After Dark’s the Cash Game show admitted one thing: Durr was hard to read. In the $100k buy in event Phil Hellmuth, Allen Cunningham, Guy Laliberte, Mike Baxter, and David Peat were playing with a crafty player better known for his skill online as Durr, but his real name was [...]
Is the WSOP Watered Down?
Watering down the talent pool has made it tough for the good players to shine. A world class player who has to face down 6500 opponents in a big tournament like the World Series of poker Main Event is still a heavy underdog to make it to the final table. This is evidenced by the [...]
Poker After Dark - Big Man Straight
When poker After Dark started their new season, they started to bring in some new blood as well. In the Cash Game episode, where players paid $100k to play, Phil Hellmuth, Tom Dwan, Allen Cunningham, Guy Laliberte, Mike Baxter, and David Peat were invited to play, with only Allen and Phil being old timers.
Be Wary of Going All In
The all in bet has been a staple of big poker tournaments ever since the ESPN cameras became part of the sport’s reality. There are a number of reasons for this that can be explained from a tactical point of view, but the reality is that the all in bet is exciting: it’s the “Home [...]
Poker After Dark - Super Set Over Simple Set
poker After Dark is a great show to watch to catch the pros in action. Typically they play a short handed winner take all No Limit Holdem tournament, but this particular week the theme was The Cash Game, where players paid $100k of their own cash to play.
Tools of the Trade
So does a plumber have an unfair advantage when he uses a wrench to stop a stubborn leak? Well perhaps the leak thinks so, but in reality the tradesman is just using the proper tool of the trade to solve a problem. People might look a little sideways at the gentleman if he tried to [...]
Rules, Rules, Rules
Depending upon where you are standing in the world, a game with the same name can have very different rules. poker pros Marcel Luske and Michelle Lau established the Federation Internationale de poker Association (FIDPA) and the International poker Rules (IP Rules) so that somebody who is used to playing poker in Las Vegas will [...]
Testing the Pre-Flop Raiser
What happens before the flop and what happens after it can be as different as night and day. Somebody behaving like a lion before the first three cards hit the board may be reduced to impotent hamster after the flop. Of course this transformation is only valuable if you know they have been neutered and [...]
A Lesson in Omaha #5
Over the past year or so, there has been a preponderance of players playing a short stack in PLO and in NLHE too. I think that the lessons here are clear in that playing a large stack isn’t necessarily the way to go for many players. But this is an argument that I have been [...]
Getting Beyond Your Cards by Perry Friedman
I spend a lot of time playing in the low-limit Stud games on Full Tilt poker. In those games, I’ve encountered a number of players who haven’t come to understand one of poker‘s fundamental concepts. These beginners focus only on their own cards they don’t stop to think about the cards their opponents might hold.
To [...]
Online Poker timing tells
When playing poker online, one of the most important pieces of information you can pick up on is the “timing tell.” Whenever one of your opponents gets involved in a big hand, you should always pay attention to how long it takes him to make his decision because it will often give you a clue [...]
2008 World Series of Poker Pre-registration Opens
LAS VEGAS, March 4 /PRNewswire/ — Harrah’s Entertainment, Inc. said today pre-registration for the 2008 World Series of Poker Presented by Milwaukee’s Best Light is now open.
Players will be able to pre-register online at worldseriesofpoker.com or in person at the main cage of the Rio(R) All-Suite Hotel & Casino, host property for the 2008 WSOP. [...]