Mike Caro is the ‘Mad Genius’ of Poker
Let me share a closely guarded secret. I just returned to my forest in the Ozarks after spending most of last week with Doyle Brunson in Las Vegas. We filmed a poker course for iAmplifyVegas. com that should be announced shortly. Although iAmplify (the main site covering all […]
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Your Worst Poker Enemy by Alan N. Schoonmaker, PhD Lyle Stuart Books, 2007 ISBN: 0-8184-0720-4 336 pp, $15.95
The title of the book, Your Worst Poker Enemy comes from a Stu Ungar quote, and it means that our own internal shortcomings are the biggest obstacle we face to improving as poker players. In Ungar’s case, this […]
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John Vorhaus
Now let’s talk about your goals. Where do you want your poker game to be a week or a month or a year from now? It’s a given about goals that you can’t begin to move toward them until you state them, so I would ask you to take a moment to think about-and […]
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Tom Leonard
Some time ago I penned a column entitled A Fortune Cookie. In it, I related receiving an epiphany which was enclosed in a fortune cookie that related to getting back to basics in poker.
Well, I still enjoy Chinese food and of course the messages in the fortune cookies are good fodder for columns. A […]
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George Epstein
The California Poker Players Conference held Oct. 20-21 at Hollywood Park Casino, was a fantastic event. We all learned to become better players from it.
During the Panel Discussion, I was asked about the Esther Bluff. In a subsequent discussion with an attendee, I suggested it as a great tactic when trying to steal the […]
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A calculator that I made in Excel. It shows how to manage your stake and what kinds of games that you can afford to gamble.
I was recently reminded about an attitude that helps to put things into perspective. A player was having some bad luck and seemed to come in second best too often. A […]
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Kids Poker: A Joe and Hobby Poker Fiction
“Hi, Uncle Joe, it’s Eddie.” Eddie is the son of my brother who died suddenly a few years ago. I try to be a substitute dad when I can. “Hey, Buckaroo, how are you doin’?”
“Well, OK.”
“That doesn’t sound like a great OK. What’s bugging you, partner?”
“Mom won’t let […]
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Peppermill in Reno
Tom Christopher Wins Best-All-Around Player at Peppermill. The Peppermill in Reno just completed 11 days of great tournament action. The event began October 26 and ran through November 4, with 19 events ranging from $120-$1,000. The action included a HORSE event, a ladies only tourney, a seniors’ event, as well as crazy pineapple […]
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I. Nelson Rose
A few weeks ago I wrote a column entitled Poker Tournaments and Taxes. In it, I discussed the declaration by the IRS that card rooms will have to report anyone who wins more than $5,000 in a poker tournament. That is true. But I also wrote that the IRS is requiring that 25 […]
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