Heads-up with Doyle – A Dream Come True
What is the one common dream that most poker players share? I think it would be safe to say the answer is making the final table at the World Series of Poker’s...
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Zynga Poker: Facebook Fun or Hold’em Hell?
For players looking for a safe alternative to major online poker sites, some social networking sites often provide free “play money” poker games against real players. One of the most popular games...
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Trust Your Reads and Poker Instincts
“Trust your instincts, class.” Those were a teacher’s words back when I was a teenager and prepping for one of the myriad standardized tests administered to see how we were progressing with...
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Violating Conventional Poker Wisdom – Part II
In my last article I addressed the first three of the six pieces of conventional poker wisdom that I have found exception to. In this article I’ll deal with the remaining three....
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Before You Play Poker… Have a Plan
Have you ever heard the expression, most people do not plan to fail, however, many people fail to plan? I think it's a pretty neat adage which could lead us to conclude...
Poker Battles: It’s Nothing Personal
Poker is war. Though we might not always recognize it as such. Poker disguises itself under the veneer of a civilized game, where chips stand in for bullets and victory is a...
Being a Staked Poker Player
It may come as a surprise to you, but a large number of tournament poker players - the pros that you see every week on television, not the amateurs who take a...
Violating Conventional Poker Wisdom – Part I
Poker is a complex game – easy to learn but hard to master. Accordingly, many have tried to simplify the learning of poker strategy by embracing broad generalizations about the game. Many...
The Poker Canary – A Lesson in Set Mining
Tweet, tweet… what does a canary have to do with poker? I’m certain you are all familiar with the use of pigeons, donkeys and fish as poker terms but canaries might be...
Fear and Goading at the Poker Table
What drives you to play poker? When you sit down to play, what are you goals - what is it exactly that you want to accomplish? To pass the time and socialize...
Women in Poker: A “Honey-Maker” Effect?
When the “Moneymaker effect” took hold of the poker world in 2003, it brought many new players into the game. Youngsters who were playing “Magic: The Gathering” switched to poker and saw...
Pay Attention to Your Opponent’s Stack Size
I was playing in a $1,000 maximum buy-in, $2-$5 no-limit game recently, when a new player sat down two seats to my right and bought in for $1,000. On the third hand...
The Antidote for Tilt
I bet the title of this article caught your attention, especially if you fall prey to the universally eschewed poker downfall of going on tilt. There are many forms of tilt and...
Losing at Poker
Poker players are losers. I don’t mean that metaphysically. I don’t mean to insult you as a person. But practically speaking, most of the time when you play poker you lose. It’s...
