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A Last-Lap Story

Sometimes things are a puzzle and you are totally confused
I was a small winner after struggling in my previous several sessions, and was pretty happy about it. Often, when I have not been running well, I leave a game in order to ensure a win. This puts me in more of a psychologically positive frame […]

The NETELLER Debacle

Its complexities, and more
Were They Doing Anything Illegal?
As we all now know, Canadians Stephen Lawrence, 46, and John Lefebvre, 55, former directors and founding shareholders of NETELLER, have been charged in the United States with laundering billions of dollars in illegal gambling proceeds.
The federal government is taking a fascinating position, purporting that these men knew […]

This and That About Poker

Hi. Come on in. I’ve cooked up a pot of my favorite kid food - macaroni and cheese, heavy on the cheese. Yum.
You were asking about making a living playing low- and medium-limit poker. It’s one of the questions I most often hear. It comes from players who are doing well but don’t quite have […]

Nani Dollison

The day after she bested a field of 615 players in the record-setting $2,000 limit hold’em tournament at the World Series of Poker, a weary Nani Dollison took a timeout from her hectic tournament schedule to spend some downtime talking with me. About two weeks later while I was applying the final coat of polish […]

State Can Bar Some Adults From Gambling

The Supreme Court of Louisiana has just upheld a statute that prevents some, but not all, adults from gambling. In fact, the court ruled that the state Legislature has the power to make it a crime to sell a lottery ticket to certain selected adults, or to allow those same citizens to make a bet […]

Beware, IRS Crackdown on Gamblers is Now in Full Force!

The IRS recently affirmed that it is taking a much closer look at amounts claimed as gambling winnings on line 28, “Miscellaneous Income,” of the 1040 form, especially in cases in which the amount claimed is exactly the same as the total amount of the W2-Gs issued to the taxpayer throughout the year. This has […]

‘He Might as Well Bet $100,000 in the Dark!’

What can I say about the 2001 World Series of Poker that somebody somewhere hasn’t already said? For one thing, new WSOP Champion Carlos Mortensen, a relatively unknown professional player, can no longer retain his unheralded status, that’s for sure. Through a combination of gutsy play and the right amount of luck in key situations, […]

Betting Marginal Hands

I’ve often written about the value of betting hands on the river that many players would check down. For instance, when many players who have been betting top pair with a big kicker get to the river against a single opponent and the river card looks fairly harmless, they check. Maybe they’ve decided the pot’s […]

$1,500 Limit Omaha: ‘I Must … Break You’

I never cease to be amazed at how often poker provides metaphors for life, and one of the more common ones involves the value of never giving up, never quitting, never yielding in the face of insurmountable odds, at least not when there’s no reason to quit fighting. The old “chip and a chair” axiom […]

A Father’s Day Bad Beat - But Did He Capitalize?

My dad always said, “The family that gambles together stays together.” So, when we heard the boys were jamming it up in a $10-$20 hold’em game, we couldn’t think of a better way to celebrate Father’s Day. This was back in ‘94, but I still remember it as if it were yesterday.
I was running bad […]

A Poker Nickname for a Lady?

Dear Acey: I’ve been reading your column for the last few months and enjoy it. However, your column listing “the best poker nicknames” was seriously flawed. I noticed that all of the nicknames you offered up were for men. Aren’t there any nicknames for women poker players? I would like to use a nickname while […]

Bad Beats at the World Series of Poker

The worst beats we suffer occur not at poker tables, but away from them - in life. After all, a bad beat in a poker game is limited to the money we lose - nothing more, nothing less. In short, there are far more bad beats taking place at hospitals than inside poker rooms. That […]

Casino San Pablo - Where Dreams Can Come True!

Little boys may dream of hitting a homer to win the seventh game of the World Series. Little girls may dream of ice skating their way to a gold medal. Golfers may dream of walking the 18th fairway of a major tournament while challenging Tiger Woods for the championship. However, poker players who dream of […]

Faster Play

Having a poker game move along in a speedy manner is desirable for both management and players. The management makes more money, and the players have more fun. (Some of us also make more money.) I have examined this subject before, discussing some things that management and the dealers could do to speed up the […]

WSOP Updates - After Dinner Relaxation, and a Little Levity

The players have come back from their dinner break and, to put it mildly, it does seem like most of the three quarters of the field that are remaining are in a sort of ‘food coma’. There is still around six hours of poker to be played this evening, however, so the call is coming […]

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