Russ Fox
We’ve all played against opponents who miss the fact that they’ve rivered a straight or a flush. There’s a select group of players who miss when they flop trips. Mrs. Goldman belongs to that sorority.
Take this hand, which comes from a recent $2-$5 nolimit game with a $500 maximum buy-in. The game had been […]
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Paul ‘Dr. Pauly’ McGuire
“Simplicity is the key to brilliance,” Bruce Lee once said. My buddy Friedman showed me a book about Bruce Lee called “The Warrior Within.” In addition to being a movie star and martial arts instructor, Lee was a devout student of Eastern religions, who adapted what he learned to his mastery of […]
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Lou Krieger
This is the second in a two-part series about that most common of poker plays, checking.
Checking affords the leeway to defer your opportunity to act until after you see what your opponents do. If there’s no appreciable action and you feel your hand is in the lead, you can come out betting on the […]
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Jonathan Raab
The European Poker Tour, which for the last three years has been the major attraction on this side of the Atlantic, has suffered in the last couple of months. The organizers made the tricky decision to raise the cost of the buy-in from ?5,000 to ?8,000 for its fourth season. This decision was widely […]
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Bonnie Demos with New York City Fire Dept. members at the Four Winds Casino
“Mother Nature meets Lady Luck,” sums up the hottest casino destination in the Midwest, the recently opened Four Winds Resort Casino. This sprawling, worldclass resort casino, offers an eclectic mix of cutting edge gaming technology surrounded by the warm ambiance of a […]
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WSOP Critique
In a recent meeting with one of our regular writers, some Harrah’s executives remarked that, “I hated them or the WSOP.” Nothing could be further from the truth.
I love the WSOP. It is the premier event of our industry. I had a great deal to do with promoting and publicizing this event.
The first ever […]
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A Monte Carlo simulator, computes your win probabilities, P{W}, as shown.
Fred had used an on-line, Independent Chip Model calculator to track players? equities in tournaments he played on the Internet. Doing that hadn?t helped him win any tournaments, so he asked why he should bother with an ICM calculator at all. The ICM […]
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Jennifer Newell
Beginning in mid-September of 2007, rumors of cheating on the Absolute Poker online poker website began to surface. Within a matter of weeks, those rumors turned into allegations of cheating involving someone seeing whole cards, tapping into old unused accounts, and dumping chips. It soon evolved into a full-fledged scandal that implicated Absolute Poker […]
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Mike Caro is the ‘the Mad Genius of Poker’
If you’ve been following this recent series, you know what’s about to happen. I’m going to be interviewed. But I’m not going to be interviewed by a journalist or another poker expert. I’ve determined over the years that I seldom get the questions that are most meaningful […]
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John Carlisle
Absolute Situation Continues to Unfold
It what is becoming the biggest poker story in the post Moneymaker era, the insider cheating scandal at Absolute Poker is continuing to provide the poker world with enough popcorn fodder and internet message board posts to keep even the most interested parties on the verge of overload. PokerNews sent […]
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