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A broader look at the game of poker with words of wisdom to help educate, entice, and make you think.

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 …
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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. …
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Although each approach can reap rich rewards, the differences between them beg the question as to which is actually more effective. Is it the analytical mind of the …
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Being students of poker, rather than just gamblers, we know that it’s all about the long run. And so many of us focus on the skills it takes …
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Friends, relatives and fellow poker players have sometimes marveled at how it is that I have retained domestic tranquility even while spending so much time away from home …
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Virtually every decision you make in every walk of life carries some kind of opportunity cost, and nowhere is this more true than in a poker game Read more

Are not the tactics and strategy for much of poker surrounded by deceit and cunning? I don’t imagine Machiavelli played poker but I’m certain he would have been …
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Why did I take up poker at the age of 64? And how did I go about learning? Ashley Adams, the noted poker author, recently asked me those …
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We don’t like to lose. We play poker to win. Our nature is to see losing as failure – instead of as an inevitable part of being overall …
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There are many articles and chapters in poker books dedicated to advice directed at knowing when and how poker players should move up in stakes. However, there doesn’t …
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