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Phil Hellmuth Jr. Steps in for ‘Mad Marty’ Wilson

When UltimatePoker.com asked me to appear as an expert on a televised tournament (UltimatePoker.com Showdown) in London, I wasn’t crazy about the idea.
“I didn’t even play in the last four World Poker Tour events in Paris,” I told them, “and now you want me to go to London to shoot three episodes of a TV […]

Travels With the Camel

I’m increasingly becoming known as the guy who always sees the worst in poker. It’s not without good reason - as there is a lot wrong in the world of poker, and it would be great if everything was as good as it could be.
In all fairness, though, when something is done right, I applaud, […]

Hitting a ‘Gutshot’ in London

All of the words and phrases in this column that appear in quotation marks are the - much beloved by me - local London lingo. “Bloody right,” this column is about a little UK poker! While in London recently, where I was shooting three parts of a reality show (the UltimatePoker.com Showdown), I thought it […]

A Law Unto Themselves

Online poker sites can pretty much do as they please. We can huff and puff all we want, but, at the end of the day, we are at their mercy. That’s not to say that these sites are acting disreputably in any way, and with good reason; they’d have nothing to gain and everything to […]

My Last Bet on Football

Watching English football in the late ’70s was a dubious pleasure. My earliest memories involved sitting on an exposed concrete terrace, eating a Wagon Wheel chocolate bar, and watching as rival fans threw rocks at each other. Somewhere in the background there was a game going on, although it was rarely any good.
Football has since […]

The Poker Cynic

The Company You Keep
This is either a closely observed social phenomenon or just one more excuse. I played my heat in the World Speed Poker Open, and found myself stuck in the bar, for several hours, in the company of assorted poker players. I was sitting with two of Ireland’s finest, Donnacha O’Dea and Scott […]

Tikay’s Table Tales

Don’t you just love Americans? So, that’s what Vegas is like. I’ve just returned from my first-ever trip and I’m left with mixed conclusions. As a city, it seemed to me to lack character. Vegas sits in the desert, and it’s certainly an architectural wasteland. With the exception of Wynn Las Vegas and Bellagio, the […]

Analyzing the Strength of a Draw

Many players are unable to properly analyze the strength of a hand It is my experience that very few players are capable of counting their outs and analyzing the strength of their hand in a correct manner. This is true not just at the low limits; even when playing for higher stakes, you will […]

Accumulator vs. Conservator

Fundamental or conservative play will often get you into the money in tournaments as long as you are able to avoid some bad situations or beats. However, it will rarely get you in shape to win the tournament unless you get hit in the face with the deck (that is, you get great cards). Throughout […]

Courtney Friel: World Poker Tour’s Queen Among Kings

Flashing a radiant smile, former news anchor Courtney Friel explained how excited she is to be the new host of the World Poker Tour: “I love to be in the center of poker, because I have to be where the action is, and poker is definitely hot! I am so excited to be the new […]

Happenings at the Deauville EPT - and More

Back in 2004, the choice of Deauville as an EPT venue was a controversial one. The preferred location for a major French tournament was Paris, because that is where poker is based in France, and no major tournament had ever been held outside of the Aviation Club on the Champs Elysées in the heart of […]

European Poker Tour: Series Two

After weeks of begging, threatening, and pleading, I have finally managed to persuade EPT boss John Duthie to reveal the schedule for season two of the PokerStars.com European Poker Tour. John, armed only with a telephone and an army of lawyers, has worked ceaselessly over the summer months to make sure the EPT continues to […]

It’s Time to Make it Clean!

Tournament backers must be revealed
I have never been afraid of stating my opinion. The subject of this column is one that will likely upset some readers. I would call it the cancer of today’s poker world and the ultimate threat to the continued growth of our game. The issue has to be addressed and investigated […]

Big Slick

I discussed ace-rag in detail in a previous column. This time I’ll talk about the most overplayed hand in poker, A-K. Wow! I’ve been waiting for a big hand like this for an hour! Finally, I have a monster. Or do I? Yes, maybe you do, but it’s all in how you play the hand […]

The Poker World is Flat - Part I

In his optimistic best seller “The World Is Flat” (Farrar, Straus & Giroux, 2005), The New York Times columnist Thomas L. Friedman uses “flat” as a synonym for connected - digitally, that is, by fiber-optic cables.
Friedman makes a compelling case that a “triple convergence” of Internet technology with economic and political events at the dawn […]

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