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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 Big Mo

Never forget that only dead fish swim with the stream — Malcolm Muggeridge. Everybody loves a winner. Any time we see someone, or something, emerge victorious in a difficult situation, that always...

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The Risks of Winning at Poker

So you’re doing great. You’re at the $2/5 no limit table and you are ruling. You sat down with $300, doubled up in the first ten minutes when your A-K improved to...

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The Texas Sharpshooter Fallacy

Picture a man, sitting on a hillside. He has a gun and he's firing random shots at the side of a barn some yards away. Before long, the wall of the barn...

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The Worst Poker TV Shows Ever Made

While everyone has their own favorite online poker sites, most players can agree on which TV shows offer the best presentation of and insight into the game. I listed my top 5...

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Winning the Big One

I go to Las Vegas every year to participate in the World Series of Poker. I find even the thin possibility of winning a World Series of Poker bracelet to be a...

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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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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...

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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...

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