Ruling! #2 – I Guess You Got Me
The Scenario At the river during a big hand I made an all-in bet and the girl I bet lifted her cards in the air and said, “I guess you got me.”...
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Video Poker Strategies
Knowing this site is dedicated to the study of poker I have concluded (rightly or wrongly) that a number of our devotees to poker may also play video poker while visiting my...
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Tournament Poker – To Cash or Not to Cash?
To cash or not to cash: that is the question: Whether ‘tis nobler in the mind to suffer The slings and arrows of outrageously bad beats Or to take arms against a...
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Ruling! #1 – Is a Mucked Hand a Dead Hand?
The Scenario I was playing in a poker tournament against an aggressive opponent who was on the button when I was in the big blind. All the players folded to him and...
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How Data Mining Has Influenced Poker
The way I find a table on an online poker site is to go down the list until I find a table with good stats, that is, better than 33% of the...
The Care & Maintenance of the Home Game
Home or private poker games are played all over the globe on a regular basis. Old ones disband and die and new ones crop up all the time. The real successful ones...
How to Play Poker in the Star Trek Universe
SPOCK: A very interesting game, this poker. KIRK: It does have advantages over chess. MCCOY: Love to teach it to you. Star Trek, “The Corbomite Maneuver”. For those of our gentle readers...
Assessing the Competition
Most knowledgeable, seasoned poker players will agree that table selection is a critical element if one wishes to be a consistent winner on the green felt. Table selection is really defined as...
Poker and Golf – Green Felt and Fairways
With Tiger Woods’ comeback win at Bay Hill, Paul Casey’s playoff victory at the Shell Houston Open and the start of the Masters coming this week, the tournament golf season is in...
Buying the Perfect Playing Cards
Playing cards are believed to have originated in China, where paper was first invented. The cards we are familiar with today were designed in France. Many new decks have since been designed...
How Ya’ Running?
How ya’ running? Well, unless you’re just in neutral and idling, you are either running good or running bad at poker. Let’s take a look at both sides of this equation and...
Online Poker & Data Mining
You walk into a live poker room for the first time, carrying your racks of red chips to your assigned seat at the $2/$5 no-limit hold’em table. You sit down and look...
Why Do We Play Poker?
Why do we put up with the long hours and the losing streaks, the bad beats, the software dropping its internet connection or the live dealers dropping their cards? Are our lives...
A Poker Conundrum
Most of us who enjoy playing poker and other games are, in fact, conundrum junkies. If we all knew exactly what the outcome of any and all events would be, there would...
