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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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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 –...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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,...

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...

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...

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...

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...

Whether you play poker for a living as a means of extra income, or as a passionate hobby, one of the greatest things about being a poker player is the chance to be...

One of the great appeals of poker to a mass audience is the drama inherent in the game itself. Millions of dollars can change on the turn of a card. An unknown...

When I first started playing poker, all of my games were of the private variety which I would guess was the same for about ninety nine percent of new players who started...

Whether you're a casual player or a professional, there is always some element of pressure to succeed in poker. Poker is a competitive game and as with anything in life, you want...

In the study of behavioral finance there's a concept known as opportunity cost. The official definition goes something like this: It's the value of the option that you must give up when...

As the popularity of no-limit Texas Hold’em tournaments has spread around the world, new avenues for the game have sprouted up like mushrooms after a rainstorm. Most major casinos have their own...

I travel a lot and I play a lot of poker. One of my favorite treats is to combine the two by going on a poker vacation. Over the past few years...