Quitters Never Win (and Winners Never Quit)
We poker players tend to want to present poker as a sport more than as a game. We point out how much skill is a factor – and how little luck plays...
Read MoreWe poker players tend to want to present poker as a sport more than as a game. We point out how much skill is a factor – and how little luck plays...
Read MoreEveryone talks about implied odds as though it’s some sort of ubersophisticated poker concept that only poker’s in-group is aware of, but in truth it’s a simple idea to understand and just...
Read MoreI’m entitling this series of articles, Poker Rx. For those of you not familiar with the symbol Rx, it currently is used to mean medicine, derived from the Latin word for “recipe”...
Read MorePoker strategies continue to evolve but at a faster rate than they did back in the day. I believe that is simply the result of many more minds, based upon its ever...
Read MoreUnlike many other forms of poker, Texas hold’em is a front-loaded game. That front-loaded structure has a significant impact on playing strategy, although this is a subject that many players don’t spend...
There is a phenomenon that occurs frequently among amateur poker players. A recreational player starts running well and winning consistently and comes to the conclusion that playing poker for a living makes...
Poker words and phrases are used regularly in our conversation. Even the absolute non-player is familiar with the concept of “calling a bluff” or “holding ones cards close to his chest”. Poker...
Many of today’s poker pundits abhor the play of marginal hands and place enormous stock in rigid starting hand requirements. Of course the poker playing public, who watch the pros on television,...
Good players need to adjust their play to suit different game conditions. I’d like to focus on one particular type of obstacle that you might face in a typical low limit no limit...
I wrote my first video poker article on a whim and it focused to Jacks or Better. I then felt that an overview of Double Double Bonus Poker was in order as...
Sure, we’ve all been seduced by the glamour, fame and money we see every week in the no-limit hold’em tournaments we see on TV. Championship bracelets, screen time and piles of cash...
If one looked up the term Poker Nirvana in the PJD or “Poker Junkie Dictionary” I believe it would state that poker nirvana is the invention of the Sit & Go poker...
For those of you who are fans of Phil Hellmuth, aka Poker Brat, aka Mr. Eleven Bracelets, aka The Greatest No-Limit Hold’Em Tournament Player Of All Time™, you’ll notice that he tends...
Way back when I was student, I used to detest homework as it got in the way of all the other fun things I wanted to be doing. Many youngsters feel that...