Tom ‘Time’ Leonard
We always think of hindsight as being 20-20 relating to the clarity of our vision after the fact. However, I think many times one’s hindsight can be very cloudy and not exactly 20-20. Hindsight or retrospection can be very helpful for us to improve our play at the tables. Instead of complaining and, […]
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John Carlisle, MA, NCC
Our American culture has allowed us to become accustomed to instant gratification. We expect to get what we want in the shortest amount of time possible. Perhaps this helps to explain the recent aura of impatience that has overtaken the new generation of poker players. Each new player that gets attracted to […]
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The Hendon Mob (left to right), Barny Boatman, Joe Beevers, Ross Boatman and Ram Vaswani.
The way it began for that poker-marketing juggernaut known as “The Hendon Mob.”
They were not doing anything more than looking for agood game, these four young English men who had traveled together enjoying the good life, projecting a group persona that […]
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John Vorhaus
Sometimes I amaze myself with the brilliance of my play but then if I examine the circumstances closely, I find that my play isn’t all that brilliant, but only really relatively better than the grossly stupid play I’m playing against. This is not news. It’s a proven poker fact that we make most of […]
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Howard Bayard Swope
He was a major player on the American landscape during the first half of the 20th Century. He ran with the powerful, the rich, the famous, and the notorious. He knew everyone who was anyone - and everybody knew Herbert Bayard Swope.
Swopewas born in 1882 and grew up in New York City. He […]
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James A. McKenna, PhD
Playing cards can be hard work. Working smart is playing worthwhile hands and it’s betting on hands that will pay the most returns. Playing hard means playing against the odds and playing hands that are either not likely to show up or won’t pay that much if they do.
All poker players are […]
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Nic Szeremeta
Since it was started in the mid 90s, the Concord Card Casino’s mini version of the World Series championship event has never really fulfilled its potential. The biggest field was four years ago when 136 hopefuls had a shot at the no limit hold’em affair run to the same time table and blind structure […]
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Susie Isaacs
In some poker rooms in the early days of poker in Las Vegas, one low-limit, high-volume table would be designated as a “snatch” table. Specially trained dealers would visibly take four or five dollars from the pot as the rake, and then discretely take another six, eight, 10, even 12 dollars by “palming” the […]
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Diane McHaffie
Sometimes, I “people watch” at the mall, instead of shopping. There’s a wide variety of people, and they all have different ways of dressing, walking, and little traits that set them apart from others. In my latest lesson at MCU, Mike informed me that studying people would also be an important factor in playing […]
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Sam Mudaro the Omaha Guru
Today let us assume you are dealt a hand that does not contain an Ace, and all of your cards are eight or higher. Should you continue with the hand or muck it? Are there any high hands worth playing that don’t contain an Ace?
For starters you have no chance at […]
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