January 3rd, 2006
Charlie Shoten
We all agree that the ability to maintain focus at the poker table separates the truly great players from the average ones. It enables you to choose and act on your best decision. I have shared some of my strategies that help me maintain my focus in my previous four articles in Poker Player […]
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January 3rd, 2006
Michael Matts, Card Room Manager for Caesar’s Palace
Michael Matts was born (April 19, 1966) and raised in West Orange, New Jersey. Michael graduated from West Orange High School in 1984 and went on to Rutgers University in New Brunswick, New Jersey.
In 1988 Michael graduated from Rutgers with a BS in Mathematics and in September of […]
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January 3rd, 2006
W.C. Fields Humorist and Hustler
“What is the chief end of man? To get rich. In what way? Dishonestly if we can, honestly if we must.” -Mark Twain
More than any other American entertainer, on stage, in silent films and talkies, W.C. Fields, characterizedand personified Twain’s tongue-in-cheek observation.
The statement sums-up and satirizes “The Gilded Age”, the name […]
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January 3rd, 2006
George Epstein
The Poker gods had not been good to me. Playing $4-$8 hold’em at the Normandie Casino in Gardena, Calif., I was losing. Then, in an early position, I was dealt A-10 offsuit. With several players in, the flop brought me what looked like the solution to my problem, [10c] [10h] [4s].
I had trip 10s […]
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