I’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”...

Poker 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...

The Scenario During a hand Player A announces “all-in” and moves his stack forward. Player B then repeats this and says "all-in" in a quiet puzzled tone as he considers why he's...

Unlike 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...

I have played the game of poker for a long time, too long to admit without sounding as old as Methuselah. An element of poker that had been central to most of...

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...

The beginning years of the twenty-first century have brought some incredible highs and devastating lows. The poker world has not been insulated from these ebbs and flows. With the peaks in poker’s...

I am principally a stud player. Stud players tend to be older than hold’em players. Even at 52, I tend to be just about the youngest player at the stud poker table....

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...

I often drink coffee before a poker playing session. I find that it helps me focus and maintain my optimum level of play for longer than when I don’t drink coffee. But...