Poker Cop
I look into the O-O of the shotgun’s barrel. The gunman says, ‘No one cheats the House of Cards.” I close my eyes.
Feet pounding down the hallway. Getting closer. I open my eyes. The gun-man has run into the bedroom. I pick up Gyp’s gun to go after him.
‘Drop the gun!” I turn. A […]
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Oklahoma Johnny Hale
It was at the Mecca of poker-The Golden Nugget Poker Room-in Las Vegas, Nevada.
Everything changes-but sometimes they comes full circle and they change back-I remember a few years ago before there was a poker room at Binion’s Horseshoe in downtownLas Vegas, that a lot of the high level poker action was at the […]
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Ashley Adams
On line one or two table tournaments, commonly called “Sit and Gos” or “SNGs” in the parlance of the Internet poker rooms, are a relatively inexpensive and fun way to play our favorite game. I’ve won about 65% of the ones I’ve entered. So let me share some of my observations. Players begin with […]
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Sam Mudaro the Omaha Guru
If you play Omaha H/L you have probably heard your peers state you should play 4-cards that work together. There is no doubt that 4-cards working together is better than 3-cards working together. Statistically we will be dealt 3- cards working together more often that 4. Are these 3-card combinations worth […]
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Allen Karol
Allen Karol was born in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania and grew up in New Jersey. He attended Montclair State College in Upper Montclair, New Jersey.
At the age of 20 Allen went into finance with AVCO Financial Services and within a year became one of the youngest branch managers in the history of AVCO.
Four years later […]
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Richard Burke
It cost you $200 to play in the satellite for a seat in the $10,000 buy-in, No Limit Hold’Em tournament at the World Series of Poker (WSOP). Fifteen tables were packed with ten players each eagerly waiting for the dealers to “put ‘em in the air.” The tournament started. A player in middle position […]
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Sometimes poker players are unrealistic. They don’t realize how long losing streaks can last. When they’re “on a roll,” they can’t imagine that it will ever end. When they win, they give themselves too much credit for playing well, and when they lose, they blame it on bad luck.
Having a reasonable grasp of what to […]
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Diane McHaffie
One of the first lessons Mike taught me was that Hold’em is by far the most popular poker game in casinos. This was news to me, because I had always thought that stud poker or draw poker were the main types of poker, since they were the ones always represented in movies. The movies […]
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George ‘The Engineer’ Epstein
To be a winner, aggression at the poker table is generally desirable - selective aggression, that is. In fact, “Playing Aggressively the Right Way” is one of the nine key strategies in my Poker for Winners! book. Play aggressively when it is to your advantage to do so.
But what do you do […]
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Mark Twain (Samuel Clemens )
“There are few things that are so unpardonably neglected in our country as poker. The upper class knows very little about it. Now and then you find ambassadors who have sort of a general knowledge of the game, but the ignorance of the people is fearful. Why, I have known clergymen, […]
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