Tom ‘Time’ Leonard
In this installment of Improving Performance, let’s examine a situation that occurs with frustrating frequency. Namely, missing the flop. Here is the scenario: you’ve just been dealt a fresh hand, which you haven’t looked at yet. Why haven’t you looked as yet?
Because you’re watching the other players until it is your turn to […]
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John Vorhaus
“The best offense,” someone once said, “is a good pretense.” In this column we’re going to discuss defending your blinds, not based on what you hold, but what sort of pretense you can sell. Some blinds are easy to defend. If you happen to pick up a real hand in the blind, you’ll play […]
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James McKenna, Ph.D.
Most poker room rules are often just common courtesy and good manners. However, with the recent popularity of games like Texas Hold ‘em, many players haven’t learned some common practices that help to keep the game smooth. Some of these courtesies are written rules and others are common practices. Here are a few.
Folding […]
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Ashley Adams
You can learn some lessons too well. It happens to beginning Stud players all the time. They came to the casinos with the loosey-goosey style of the home game. They lost. They read some books, watched their opponents, and soon learned that if they were to win in a casino they had to play […]
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Diane McHaffie
One of Mikes favorite products among poker players was an audio called “Positive Poker.” Unfortunately it isn’t currently being distributed. The lesson on it became a part of Mike’s routine teaching, a rule to live by day to day. He starts the audio lecture by saying he’s about to share with you the most […]
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