Probabilities & Paradoxes Beyond Poker
As poker players we should all be familiar with probability. After all it is the underpinning of the game and permits us to know what is a good bet. The most often...
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In this section of our website you’ll find plenty of high-quality and original articles by some of the best poker writers around. If you’re passionate about poker, like we are, then we hope you get as much pleasure in reading the articles as we do in publishing them.
Poker and the Sunk Cost Effect
I tell you the past is a bucket of ashes - Carl Sandburg Humans behave irrationally when making economic decisions. This notion is central to the study of behavioral finance. And nowhere...
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The Best Poker TV Shows Ever Made
Most poker fans will agree on the two major factors that contributed to the poker boom of recent years: online poker and TV poker shows. Not only has the customer base for...
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The Risks of Losing at Poker
We all know the obvious risk of losing at poker. The risk is you lose your money and go broke. Big revelation. Some insightful poker theorist I am. But there’s more –...
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Adjusting from Online Poker to Live Poker
April 15th 2011, which has become known as 'Black Friday' to the United States poker playing community, changed the poker landscape for the foreseeable future. The Department of Justice’s crackdown on the...
Anchoring Bias – Poker in Chains
Poker is a demanding game. It requires clear, rational decisions in the midst of a complex and constantly shifting landscape. The more bad decisions we make, the more bad results we get. And...
Poker Brains vs. Poker Balls
Many of the most talented and accomplished players in the history of tournament poker have taken a cerebral approach to the game. Chris Ferguson, Howard Lederer and Dan Harrington have all achieved...
The Long Run (The Really Long Run)
Inexperienced, bad, superstitious, and gambling poker players think in terms of the short run. Their mood and disposition is determined by their immediate results. Ask them how they’re doing and they’ll tell...
Floating or Sinking?
Hold'em strategies continue to evolve and catch the fancy of some players and are dismissed by others. One such strategy is “Floating” which means calling with a weak hand in position with...
Keeping Peace and Playing Poker
I first learned how to play poker when I was five years old. My grandfather taught my brother and me how to play. I played for money in high school and college,...
Poker and the Flight Club – Conflict Avoidance
Conflict is what poker's all about. This is a central truth of the game that we all deal with every time we sit down to play. We're trying to beat the other...
The Worst Poker Movies Ever Made
Poker movies have had their share of “bad beats” in recent years. While most of the best poker movies mentioned in my previous article took place before the “poker boom”, those that...
Fun Card Propositions
What could be more fun than scamming friends out of a few coins of the realm by outsmarting them with some proposition bets concerning fifty-two pasteboards? You might consider this a little...
Learning Another Poker Game
The poker game of choice these days is surely no limit hold’em. Many people playing today know no other form of the game. For them, poker is hold’em. That being said, there...
