Player Profile: Kathy Liebert

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 […]

Luck Underpants

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, […]

Soccer Poker

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 […]

And the Winner Is…

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 […]