Players equity ICM calculator table for $20 turbo Sit & Go that pays 70 percent for 1st and 30 percent for 2nd.
On a thunder-stormy Thursday in July, I signed up for a low-limit hold?em game and looked around our local poker room. Fred beckoned me to his table, took a break, and […]
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Mike Caro is the ‘Mad Genius’ of Poker
Before we move along in the next issue with our questions and answers, let me correct a mistake two columns ago. The concept explained in the text was valid and important-but the figures given in the question and answer didn’t compute.
Lots of readers pointed this out to me. […]
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Jennifer Matiran
I was cited for a “PWI” this past weekend in downtown Las Vegas, specifically at the legendary Golden Nugget Casino and Resort. PWI stands for Playing While Intoxicated, and is the most dangerous thing any poker player can possibly do. I drank a few beers. OK, I drank a few beers and had a […]
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John Vorhaus
Your poker philosophy should be built on two principles: aggressiveness, and honesty. Aggressiveness is a given. Anyone who plays the game for any length of time quickly learns that the person who takes command and control of the poker game has the best chance of scoring a big win. But honesty? What’s up with […]
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Jan Fisher
Casinos continue to grow and thrive and we enable them to build bigger, better, more opulent palaces by playing games we can’t beat. Most of you reading this are poker players, and I suggest you stay in the poker room rather than battling it out against the casino. A few issues ago, I wrote […]
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Advanced Limit Hold’em Strategy by Barry Tanenbaum D & B Publishing, 2007 ISBN: 978-1-904468-363 247 pp, $24.95
No-limit hold’em may be all the rage right now, but in the United States there are still far more limit hold’em games spread in public card rooms than anything else, probably more than all other games types combined.
A plethoraof […]
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Commerce Casino
While the Las Vegas Strip is known for big money games, the home of highstakes poker on a regular basis is the Commerce Casino, the world’s largest poker casino.
John Griffo, Commerce Casino Development Manager, said Commerce probably conducts more high-limit games than all the casinos on the Vegas Strip combined. Commerce Casino’s location, just […]
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Sam’s Town Las Vegas
Sam’s Town Hotel & Gambling Hall is one of the Boyd Gaming Corporation’s 18 properties that includes the Borgata. Sam’s Town represents the first major Las Vegas casino project to be directed specifically toward the local Las Vegas market. Crowded with locals from day 1 the resort quickly grabbed the attention of […]
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WSOP Critique: Player Consideration
This particular editorial isn’t so much of a criticism as it is an enlightenment. Perhaps the people who schedule the WSOP’s main event have not even thought about how it works best for the players. When you are running a poker tournament, one considerations is keeping as many players in your casino […]
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Ashley Adams
Today’s my 50th birthday. I’m old enough for the seniors poker circuit for the first time. It’s hard to believe.
I received two birthday cards (at least so far). Each has to do with poker-in a way.
The first was from my mother. It was one of those modern cards that sings a song when you […]
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