Tom ‘Time’ Leonard
As we continue our attempt to ferret out possible nuances of our game which can be improved upon, today let’s delve into when it might be appropriate to entice several overcalls instead of raising with our very best hands. An overcall is when a player calls after a player in front of him […]
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John Vorhaus
Imagine this scenario in a realworld cardroom: You make a river bet, get called, and turn over your hand. Your opponent mucks his cards without showing, but curiosity gets the best of you, so you reach into the muck and peek at his discards. How many times do you think you could do this […]
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John Carlisle
We hear this old cliche way too often: “You have to take it one step at a time.” We’ve heard it so often we often dismiss its meaning and message. One step at a time has been my reality lately, not simply a cliche. You see, I was recently in a serious car accident […]
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John Vorhaus
In just the last year, no-limit Texas hold’em has emerged with a vengeance, establishing itself as the game of choice for a whole eager horde of new poker players. From home games to cardrooms and casinos and all across the internet, people who have never played poker before are losing their poker cherry, so […]
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Small Stakes Tournaments: Part 3 - Betting
As we continue to look at what makes for a successful strategy in low buy-in tournaments, always remember that if the blinds have not caught up to you yet, they soon will. For this reason, it is important that you understand how to bet effectively.
I learned the importance of […]
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William H. Rehnquist Chief Justice of the Supreme Court
Poker is a contest in which justice is coincidence and fairness is folly. Interestingly, some of the foremost poker players in Washington D.C. have been members of the United States Supreme Court.
President Taft, the only President to become Chief Justice of the Supreme Court after his years […]
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Donna Blevins
Do you remember the television commercial, “It’s not nice to fool Mother Nature”? This last week, it kept echoing through my mind as we experienced the wrath of Hurricane Katrina.
Returning from the WSOP Circuit Event in Tunica, we stopped for the weekend at the Pearl River Resort in Philadelphia, Mississippi, about 200 miles north […]
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Tom Leonard
Continuing to hunt out weaknesses that occur with surprising frequency in many a player’s game, let’s examine what is almost an obsession with some players- always defending their blinds. Some players feel that they will be regarded as wimps if they allow themselves to be pushed off their blinds. Many of them also feel […]
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United States of Poker: Illinois
Gambling in Illinois has a long and infamous history.
Havana, Illinois was known as Little Reno because of Al Capone’s development of floating casinos on the Illinois River. In the mid- 1930s, the Nitti gang ran casino games in Calumet City and Cicero, and this continued under Accardo and Ricca in the […]
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Online Poker by Doyle Brunson 183pp w/bonus CD, $14.95 No-Limit Life by Charlie Shoten 117pp, $19.95
World Series of Poker Champion Doyle Brunson’s Online Poker and Charlie Shoten’s No- Limit Life are new arrivals in poker literature and both have value for those who are serious about improving their game.
Brunson, whose reputation as a player […]
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