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Variance: Your Best Friend and Worst Enemy

After getting back from the fiasco at the Borgata, I returned to the daily grind, multitabling shorthanded hold’em. I decided that it was time to buckle down and really commit to bankroll building and pumping out the hands. For about the past week I’ve been playing 1,000-2,000 hands a day. Nothing stellar by insane 100-tabling […]

The Full Circle of Ace-Rag

Ace-rag. A hand despised by many and misplayed by most. Just the thought of a specific hand and how good or bad it is makes my skin crawl. As I have written about previously, it’s not the cards you hold. It’s all about situations, representations, and expectations. But, many of the players who I coach […]

In The Words of John Duthie: The European Poker Tour and the Future of Televised Poker

On the History of the EPT
The World Poker Tour had been hugely successful, and it became clear that its organizers wanted to expand into Europe. They already had made one or two attempts, but when they proved unsuccessful, I decided to jump in. I had an edge over them from the start: I knew the […]

The Wonderful Life of Isabelle Mercier

In my report, I wrote that during the decisive hand, she probably made one or two mistakes that cost her the tournament. Why did I write that? Well, basically because it is my job to try to be as objective as possible. Of course, I could just as well have written something completely different: […]

Poker: The Story of America’s National Pastime

Prologue
In this column I’ll do my level best to narrate the history of poker, from the game’s arrival in New Orleans as 20-card poque (or poqas), its evolution into 52-card poker aboard Mississippi steamboats and later in the camps of Union and Confederate armies, its migration to the Dakotas and California, its importance as both […]

Shorthanded Online Play

This is an edited excerpt from Rolf Slotboom’s brand-new book Secrets of Professional Pot-Limit Omaha. In this book, Rolf describes and analyzes, in depth, two specific strategies. One is a tight, sandbagging, minimum buy-in approach based on exploiting to the fullest the overaggression of some (even very good) players. The second approach is a more […]

You Have to Get Lucky Once

In a tournament, put yourself in a position to get lucky
“When are you going to be on TV?”
That is a question I have heard at least 50 times in the past three years. Friends, family, and even casual acquaintances seem to assume that every professional poker player gets on TV nowadays; so, when would I […]

Betting Into a Side Pot (and Why That’s OK)

Some situations are appropriate for it
I often hear tournament players tell me about their “pet peeve.” It turns out that a lot of these players share the same one. When a player is all in, they tell me, everyone else should check the hand down, every time. “We want to eliminate the all-in guy,” they […]

Managing Your Poker Bankroll

Your temperament and financial situation should determine your level of risk
People always ask, “How much do I need to play in a $20-$40 (for example) game?” The usual answer to all poker questions is, “It depends.” But in this case, it is the wrong question. The question really should be, “Given my temperament and current […]

The First Lady of Poker

Linda Johnson Graces the Poker World Stage
How does one earn the moniker “The First Lady of Poker”?
As a player, Linda Johnson survived two decades in the male-dominated, cutthroat world of professional poker. She started her journey in $2-$4 limit games, and eventually grinded her way to and beat games with stakes as high as $100-$200. […]

Interesting Times and Your Poker Game

I’ve heard there is an ancient Chinese curse that states: “May you live in interesting times.” Well, the game of poker is surely in an interesting time! Thanks to U.S. Senate Majority Leader and 2008 presidential candidate Bill Frist (R-Tenn.), we have the Unlawful Internet Gambling Enforcement Act of 2006 (UIGEA), which has shaken up […]

World Poker Tour Stop in Niagara Falls

It’s tough to second-guess yourself, but …
Finally, the World Poker Tour was able to make a long overdue stop in Canada, more specifically, at the Fallsview Casino in Niagara Falls, Ontario. I could actually see the Falls from my hotel room.
Going into the event, I was just hoping that it would be run well and […]

Michael Jordan is a Champion!

A great poker event for charity
On a Friday night in August in Minneapolis, longtime New York Knicks player Trent Tucker (he played for the Knicks for 10 years) had a charity event to benefit the Trent Tucker Youth Program. Normally, this event is all about the golf, and people pay a minimum of $5,000 a […]

A Different Kind of Final Table

As I write this, I’ve been holed up at Foxwoods the last few days for the 2006 World Poker Finals. Foxwoods always has two things going for it: It attracts lots of players, and many of those players like to play fast and loose. Last year, Nick Schulman made a name for himself, winning […]

Poker in the Pub

Welcome once again to the second installment of www.pokerinthepub.com. I am overwhelmed by the growth of the league and the enthusiasm of everyone involved. Our efforts to keep this a fun league have paid dividends, with many regional authorities endorsing the league both as legal and as entertainment. We reckon that we already have introduced […]

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