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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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 Worst Poker Movies Ever Made
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...
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Learning Another Poker Game
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...
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The Best Poker Movies Ever Made
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...
How Poker Has Changed
Poker has changed more rapidly over the past few years than it has in the entirety of the game’s history. Seven years ago, just before the beginnings of a poker boom that...
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...
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...
Young Guns of Tournament Poker
“The Kids Are Alright” or “Teenage Wasteland”? In 1989, Phil Hellmuth set the record for the youngest winner of the World Series of Poker Main Event at the age of twenty-four. His...
Happy Holidays and Poker Resolutions
Hi, poker players. I’m Lou Krieger and this is my first article for Pokerology. For those of you who don’t know me, I’m the author of 11 books about poker, and you...
WSOP Main Event 2009: The Aftermath
In the last forty years, the World Series of Poker has grown from a group of Texas road gamblers voting on the “second-best” player in the world, to an event of over...
WSOP November Nine 2009: Ivey vs Moon
(Why a Phil Ivey Win Would Be Good for the Game – and Why a Darvin Moon Win Would Be a Disaster) It’s that time again, poker fans! The hype and hysteria...
5 Reasons to Make Poker Legal
I live in Boston, Massachusetts. Poker is officially illegal here – as it is in much of the United States. The Unlawful Internet Gambling Enforcement Act (UIGEA) seeks to prohibit us from...
Gamblers Anonymous for the Poker Obsessive
I was obsessed with poker a while back – even more than I am right now. I had a game at my house just about every other Sunday. I played in someone...
