John Vorhaus
“That was a terrible call!” shouted my opponent as he stumbled away, busted from the nolimit hold’em tournament in its first half-hour. “How could you make that call?” I had just cracked his aces and sent him to the rail by flopping a straight to my 3-4 offsuit holding. Goodness, he must be right! […]
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Oklahoma Johnny Hale
Last time I was telling you about a poker game at the old Golden Nugget and small pairs. Now back to the poker game a few years ago at the old Golden Nugget.
This was a pot limit hold’em poker game with $5 and $10 blinds. The rules of this pot limit game were […]
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Donald Woods Jr.
My friend told me that his wife gave him an ultimatum. Since she just happened to be a very intelligent woman whom I have had the pleasure of meeting, I considered the source a good one. She extended him an opportunity to choose between his beloved cards/dice/horse-racing addictions or lose her to a […]
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US Playing Cards CEO Greg Simko
It’s refreshing and unexpected when the CEO of a major corporation is down to earth and a darnn nice guy. That’s what we found with Greg Simko, CEO of US Playing Card, which is a 138-year-old company and the largest playing card maker in the world.
Born and raised in the […]
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Richard Burke
He was still talking about it when I sat down at the $4-8 Hold’Em table on a Saturday afternoon in late winter. His name was Warren and his friend’s name was Rob. They had come to town for a convention and had decided to stay over and play a little low-limit poker. Both were […]
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Byron Liggett
From the golden wheat fields of Eastern Washington, down the Columbia Gorge, passed the City of Portland, and west to the Pacific Ocean, the Columbia River is an American Beauty. Today, the hands of poker players are all over her.
Native Americans lived in harmony throughout theregion long before the first poker players arrived on […]
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Diane McHaffie
When I sat down at a table to play poker for the first time, I was scared. It was intimidating, facing a table full of people, sizing each other up, including me. Then I bought my chips and the first cards were dealt. I trembled nervously, trying hard not to show it.
I don’t remember […]
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Tom ‘Time’ Leonard
Do you study your opponents? Do you try and decide where they stand on the information/discipline/ knowledge curve? You should–it’s part of clocking the game. Remember the old adage: If in the first half hour of play, you can’t pick out the sucker at the table, it’s you! If I can’t identify mistakes […]
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John Vorhaus
Don’t Play Like I Play!
As you know, I’ve written some poker books, and sometimes people buy these books from me in person when I play. Whenever I happen to sell a book, I’ll sign with this semi-tongue-incheek advice:”Don’t play like I play.”
I say”semi-” tongue-in-cheek because, frankly, I think that most players would do better […]
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WSOP Circuit: New Orleans
21-year-old University of Texas student Jason Su wins first major poker tournament and becomes youngest WSOP winner in history.
In the early 1970s, nineteen-year-old Bill Gates was enrolled at Harvard. His first and only year as a college student was memorable not so much for any academic accomplishments, but rather for the […]
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