Chris Wong : WSOPC Lake Tahoe Event #2 Champion
[Editor’s Note: Also read the results from this WSOP circuit event]
A great story and a spellbinding final table share common qualities ? such as a compelling cast of characters, mystery, excitement, and various subplots. Event #2 at the World Series of Poker Circuit at Lake […]
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Diane McHaffie
I walked between poker tables in Las Vegas. Suddenly, I heard a player yell, “What have you done to my hand!” So, I stopped and turned to the table behind me. One man was standing up after throwing his cards across the table in frustration. They’d slid into an opponent’s hand, which had been […]
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Kathy Liebert
Kathy Liebert frowns at tendencies to separate the sexes in discussions of poker skills.
Pul-leeeze, her tone seems to say. This IS the 22nd century.
It’s a habit the news media has created and continues toperpetuate, she grumbles. ” There’s no question the top women players can hold their own anywhere. They are very competitive with […]
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John Carlisle, MA, NCC
One of the most common psychological mistakes that we make happens automatically within our minds. All of us naturally look for common patterns in nearly everything that we encounter. With that, we often mistake a simple correlation for a cause. I remember a comical example of this on a newscast last summer, […]
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James McKenna, PhD.
Very often poker turns into a game of soccer. This happens when the player with the bigger kicker wins. When players learn their lessons from watching a tournament on TV, they see players coming in with one high card and a small unsuited card. Often players in these tournaments will play small suited […]
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Donald Woods Jr.
There are two certainties in this life. One is: we cannot live forever, as we know it. Two being: the odds say, that we MUST WIN SOMETIME. The latter statement is what I want to focus on right now. In determining the when are we going to win part, let us do the […]
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Sam Mudaro: Omaha Guru
Today we will look at how often a low will get there when the flop comes down with a single or two low cards. We will also look at which low gets there, that is the nut low vs. the 2nd, 3rd or other low. The charts below reflect the simulation results […]
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Dwight D. Eisenhower
Dwight D. Eisenhower learned to play poker from an old frontiersman when he was a boy in Abilene, Kansas. Born in 1890, the small town where he grew up had been a notorious wide-open cattle town just a generation earlier.
Young Ike befriended one old-timer who’d been a scout, hunter and professional gambler. He […]
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John Vorhaus
What is it about poker that’s so compelling? With so many fascinating things to do in this world, why do we invest so much time, energy, (money!), effort and obsessive attention in poker? Just what is it about this game that makes it so spellbinding?
It’s not like we can takeit or leave it: ‘I’ve […]
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Poker Cop by Robert Arabella
“D” is for Dealer The Ugly Man, in a wild rage, yells, “I know you have one! Give me your invitation to the House of Cards or I’ll kill you.” When I tell him I can’t! he pulls out a knife and plunges it into my chest.
My torn-in-half “Lucky Deck,” heldin […]
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