Dr. Scott Aigner, MD
Imagine yourself playing in a major no limit tournament. Sitting with a medium stack on the button, you look down at an Ace 10 suited. This hand is good enough to raise with given that only the blinds remain. You raise three times the big blind. You are watching the small blind […]
Filed under: Poker News | No Comments »
Peter ‘The Poet’ Costa
Its not very often that I would choose to write about anything negative in poker. Even less likely that I would take a swipe at someone who was obviously a newcomer to the poker scene. After all, it’s due to the influx of these new kids that has helped our game to […]
Filed under: Poker News | No Comments »
Mike Caro, the ‘Mad Genius’ of Poker
I know. I’ve talked about today’s topic before. It’s World Series of Poker time, so maybe it’s the season to think about repairing poker tournaments.
Why repair them? Because, they’re a disaster. Yes, I realize that they’re more popular than ever. I realize that most are competently managed and unfold […]
Filed under: Poker News | No Comments »
Greg Raymer is has a massive stack going into day 3
[Visit the Photo Gallery, 2005 World Series of Poker Results and the WSOP Top Money Finishers. Our WSOP writer is live blogging the WSOP on his poker blog, Tao of Poker]
World Series of Poker reached Day Two after the first three “day ones” were […]
Filed under: Poker News | No Comments »
Mike ‘the Mouth’ Matusow will go into day 2 with 27,850 in chips.
The big story of Day 1C involved Mike “The Mouth” Matusow. Within the first hour of the tournament, Matusow found himself in some trouble. Apparently the dealer originally called a penalty on him for throwing his cards. When the tournament directors came over […]
Filed under: Poker News | No Comments »
David Grey, Event Winner
The final 2005 WSOP scheduled event before the start of the $10,000 main event ended before midnight this evening. The 39th event of this year’s WSOP was a Duece-to-Seven No-limit Draw Lowball with rebuys tournament. Sixty-five players ponied up the $5,000 entry fee and then bought an additional 139 rebuys for a […]
Filed under: Poker News | No Comments »
William O. Douglas
The longest serving member of the United States Supreme Court, 1939-1975, Justice William O. Douglas once said, “It seemed to me that I had barely reached the Court when people were trying to get me off.”
During his 36years on the Supreme Court, liberal Douglas, along with Justice Hugo Black, was responsible for many […]
Filed under: Poker News | No Comments »
Tom ‘Time’ Leonard
Continuing our efforts to turn over every rock to unearth ways and means of improving our performance and hence our bottom line, today let’s discuss the bane of every poker player, namely getting stuck. No one enjoys sitting down at the table intent on playing his best game and begin accumulating chips only […]
Filed under: Poker News | No Comments »
James A. McKenna, PhD.
“He knows no fear!” “He bets on anything and when he loses, he doesn’t flinch or whine!” That’s the kind of “over the table” gossip you can hear every day in a poker room. It brings up the question of whether people who play with no fear are better players or, quite […]
Filed under: Poker News | No Comments »