Ashley Adams
Rockingham Park (known familiarly as “The Rock”) in Salem, New Hampshire is now home to a huge poker room. I visited the Rock, and noticed, in addition to a lot of tournament and live hold’em action, a most unusually structured low stakes stud game.
Here are the specifics. Eight players each ante $1.00, with a […]
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Diane McHaffie
You can’t play as many winning hands against sophisticated players as you can against weak players. Therefore, you shouldn’t be attempting to play less-than-stellar hands against these knowledgeable opponents. Unlike their weak counterparts, the skilled players are more guarded in their play and aren’t likely to make the mistakes necessary foryour semi-puny hands to […]
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Mike Caro is the ‘Mad Genius’ of Poker
In the last two issues of Poker Player, we’ve examined some profitable poker tactics that translate to success in everyday life. We’re not done yet.
So far, we’ve learned not to fret over each injustice. That’s becausewe know in advance that a predictable number of “unbelievably inconsiderate,” “frighteningly forgetful,” […]
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John Caldwell
GREETINGS GREETINGS FROM THE RIO!
Almost all the breaking poker news will be made from the Rio Hotel over the next seven weeks, as the poker world gathers for the 2007 World Series of Poker. All eyes will be on Phil Hellmuth, Johnny Chan, and the great Doyle Brunson as each of them go for […]
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Venetian
The Venetian Poker Room in Las Vegas is running Deep Stack Extravaganza II, a poker room promotion and tournament designed to complement and run concurrently with the World Series of Poker (WSOP), currently underway at the Rio All-Suite Hotel & Casino. The Deep Stack Extravaganza II will run through July 1, 2007. The tournament, back […]
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Lou Krieger
One of my favorite expressions is the oftquoted: “Ninety percent of success is just showing up.” In its broadest context, this statement is applicable to much of life, including poker.
Do you want to guarantee that you’ll succeed in life? Just show up. There’s no guarantee that you’ll become rich, famous, or noteworthy in your […]
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Byron Liggett
Historically, the Casino Industry viewed poker with little interest and often with contempt. If a poker room existed in the casino at all it was usually as a convenience for in-house guests, to discourage them from going elsewhere.
Traditional casino management looked only at the immediate bottom line and the poker room doesn’t appear as […]
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Mike Eikenberry
Since satellites for tournament play were first started, thousands of players have won their way into tournaments. Along the way some strange things have happened.
Less than an hour remained before the start of the main seven-card studevent in the World Series of Poker. I got into the last one-table satellite. As play started, one […]
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