For the record, I don’t smoke. I’ve been around a lot of people who do. A few of my friends smoke. It bothers me, but I never grumble out loud, only internally. I prefer to spend my money on books, instead of cigarettes. Reading is my habit of choice.
Truthfully, I prefer smoke-free environments,but I can […]
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Susie Isaacs
It’s not only “not easy”; it’s hard as hell. On my personal scale, it was the second hardest thing I have ever done in my life. That is the line I use when someone ask me how I did it. Of course their next question is what was the first hardest thing. I jokingly […]
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The Championship Bracelet
I returned to the Bellagio for the first time since August. Man, I missed that place. Poker, Las Vegas, and the Bellagio are three words that just blend together perfectly. I was excited to cover the Festa al Lago IV poker tournament’s main event, which began today. The four day affair has been […]
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Tony Kendall
…Everyone calls me “tikay” & I am delighted that I have been asked to contribute to Poker Player, the type of publication that we in Europe yearn for.
A few words about me first, so you know what you have got. Retired businessman, single, I just play & write about poker these days, and I […]
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Jennifer Matiran
I live in sunny California. This has been the hottest summer ever. We crank up the air conditioning despite of all the warnings that there might be power outages. Power is not my problem, it’s the Southern California Edison’s problem, and I pay for their services why should I worry?
Power, I learned, is very […]
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Peter ‘the poet’ Costa
In article after article, and forum post after forum post - the issue of ‘bad beats’ in online poker continues. On one hand, the conspiracy theorists throw out a variety of imaginative and intriguing suggestions as to why these occur. On the other; we have the counter arguments that focus on the […]
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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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