Richard Burke
In a lively $4-8 Hold ‘Em game in late fall at my local poker room, I had been playing long enough to assign styles tentatively to the four players new to me. In middle position I peeked at my hand and saw both red Tens. I called and waited for the others to act. […]
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Oklahoma Johnny Hale
The game can be played in a number of ways. It can be played limit or pot limit or high hand wins all the pot or HiLo split with an eight as the highest card permitted for the hand to win the low onehalf of the pot. Different rules may be used. Any […]
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Byron Liggett
Poker by the Bay, that’s what you get at Casino San Pablo, just minutes from the Golden Gate Bridge. It’s a popular spot for Bay Area card fisherman. “We’re well stocked with a variety of Limit Hold’em,” says Game Warden Doug Morgan. “And, if you want to try your luck in the No-Limit depths, […]
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Susie Isaacs
Some of the craziest and most outrageous things are said or happen in a game of poker. The following is a list of some of my favorites:
1. Amarillo Slim Preston has been quoted as sayingIf a woman ever wins the main event of the World Series of Poker, I’ll cut my own throat.” I […]
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The Flop comes A-A-2
Often we are so focused on one thing that we miss an opportunity. That’s true in the game of poker as well as in life. Here’s an illustration I presented to my advanced poker class at the Claude Pepper Sr. Citizens Center.
You are in a late positionand are dealt a pair of […]
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Ashley Adams
I mentioned in a column a while back that I had started to play on line with some money sent my way by the generous folks at Party Poker (Hey, if you’re the most successful on line poker site you can afford to be generous, no?). It was nice to play with funds that […]
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Tom ‘Time’ Leonard
As we continue to examine our games to see if any areas show weakness and need to be improved upon, today let’s discuss those pots that seem to be for sale.
We see this phenomenon all the time and intuitively seem to know the meek may well be in line to inherit the […]
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Jim McKenna
Have you ever had the experience of doing or saying something that was just like one of your parents? In fact, you may have not only sounded like one of them, but you were being them. This is referred to as your “Parent Ego State.” And, wow, does it ever show up in casinos. […]
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John Vorhaus
In trying to close the gap between the player I am and the player I want to be, I often find myself bogged down in complicated and conflicting strategic advice. One way out of this mire is to try and reduce complex concepts to trivial one-liners. Here are a few of my favorites:
WHEN […]
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Diane McHaffie
During our last lesson we began to explore the fascinating and profitable world of poker tells. We started with the basic concept that many players try to disguise their hands by acting in ways intended to deceive you. Tells aren’t just cold, mathematical calculations and strategies; they also involve powerful psychology. And when you […]
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