Richard Burke
On a sunny day in early spring while waiting for a seat in a $4-8 Hold’Em game, I was trying to make an ordinary word from the letters, “G-N-AR- L-A,” when Hakim came into my local card room, signed up for a $4-8 Omaha/8 game, walked over, sat, and asked if I had figured […]
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Sam Mudaro is the ‘Omaha Guru’
Previously we analyzed “4-cards working together” where two of the 4 cards were a pair and the other 2 contained an Ace with a low card. The chart to the right presents only the profitable combinations where the pairs are combined with a deuce and another low card.
Except when combined […]
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Mike Palm - Card Room Manager for the Tuscany
Mike Palm was born in Dubuque, Iowa in 1973. His introduction to poker began at a very early age when his father’s friends would come to the house every Saturday to play, among other games, poker, spades, hearts, and euchre. Mike continued thefamily tradition, organizing card games […]
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James McKenna Ph.D.
Sigmund Freud’s theories on the subconscious and how actions will reveal what’s going on inside of us predates the study of poker tells. Tells are also outside of the player’s awareness. Otherwise, it’s an act designed to mislead. Often, aggressive play reveals that a player is weak. Yet, mild plays say that the […]
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George Epstein
The other night, while seated at a hold’em table at the Bicycle Casino, an attractive older woman tapped me on the shoulder. “Can I talk to you?” she asked, with a big smile. Needless to say, I was pleasantly surprised. (Beautiful women don’t tap me on the shoulder very often.) Lynne had a copy […]
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