In the past couple of years, the face of poker has drastically changed as baby-faced assassins have infiltrated the poker world at break-neck speed. A community that was once dominated by old-school poker legends who have spent decades perfecting their play is now crawling with eager, ...
Colorado Verdict a Huge Victory for Poker Poker Players Alliance Supports Local Poker Players By Stephen A. Murphy Rafferty's was hoppin'. It was the biggest poker night the Greeley, Colorado, bar had seen in quite some time. The owners even ...continued
Borgata Winter Open Loads Up the Leader Board The only players to crack the top 10 on the Card Player 2009 Player of the Year (POY) leader board during the last two weeks came from the final table of the Borgata Winter Open $3,000 no-limit hold'em ...continued
Australian Poker in the Post-Hachem Era The Growth of Poker Down Under Takes Center Stage at the Aussie Millions Late on a Saturday night in July 2005, the poker room at the Crown Casino in Melbourne, Australia, was packed. All 27 tables were filled ...continued
Mike Watson is a 24-year-old poker pro from Toronto, Canada. He graduated from the University of Waterloo with a degree in pure math in 2006, and around the same time, he started to play online tournaments seriously. By the end of 2007, he was ...continued
Matthew Stout practically came out of the womb palming a fistful of cards, shoving all in on a draw, and jamming with fold equity with air. At the age of 4, he learned five-card draw, swapping loose change back and forth with family and friends. As he ...continued
Want to study real poker hands with the Internet's most successful players? In this series, Card Player offers hand analysis with online poker's leading talent. Event UltimateBet Online Championship, event No. 5 – $320 six-max no-limit ...continued
The "Gap Concept," coined by poker author David Sklansky, refers to the idea that it takes a stronger hand to call a raise preflop than it does to make the original raise. Like most other paradigms in poker, the Gap Concept took the poker ...continued
The school of thought on pot odds ranges from those who advocate going with the odds 100 percent of the time to Phil Hellmuth's famous declaration that "pot odds are for suckers." While I think that pot odds are definitely a factor and ...continued
Gavin Smith has earned more than $4 million in tournaments over the years, including a World Poker Tour title, and he's done it all with a style that's all his own. He sits down with Adam and Diego to talk about it. Diego Cordovez: Michael ...continued
Isaac Haxton got his start in poker by playing cash games while attending Brown University, where he obtained a degree in philosophy. He continues to fuel his soaring bankroll by beating the high-stakes cash games online, where he plays anything from ...continued
All of you high-stakes poker-action junkies, get set for perhaps the wildest season yet of monster pots and bricks of cash trading hands. The Game Show Network began airing the much anticipated fifth season of the popular poker cash-game show High ...continued
OK, I recently was playing in a $1,000 buy-in - $100,000-guaranteed prize pool - online poker tournament at UltimateBet.com. The tournament had 170 entrants and we started with 5,000 in chips. Simultaneously, I was playing in a $300 buy-in UBOC event ...continued
My columns have been a bit on the serious side of late, so I thought this might be a good time to step back and take a look at the lighter side of poker with a few of the funniest hands I've witnessed over the past 35 years. Yes, I did say 35 ...continued
"You sure did that ass-backwards," I said to myself. I was in the small blind with the 6 5, two players limped in, and a local doctor raised from late position. Playing $30-$60 limit hold'em, it was an easy call, as I was one-third in ...continued
This series of columns is based on this succinct statement found in Gambling Theory and Other Topics (Page 8): "The key to successful gambling is simply to 'get the best of it' and then to 'make the most of it.'" ...continued
Hi. Come on in. Goulash today. Everyone's mom made goulash. My mom made it like this. Don't ask what's in it. Just eat. In some parts of the world, it's still winter. To you good folks, I offer this Poker Player's Prayer in Winter: ...continued
Editor's note: The following is a special preview from Jeff Hwang's upcoming book, Pot-Limit Omaha Poker: Advanced Play Vol. I, tentatively scheduled to be available in the first half of this year. "People who don't straddle go to ...continued
This column will discuss the important topic of correlation. While correlation is really more of a statistical measure than a topic within probability theory, it is extremely valuable to be comfortable with the concept. Correlation allows us to ...continued
Generally, I play low-stakes online no-limit single-draw deuce-to-seven lowball straightforwardly. Here are some typical hands. This seven-handed game has blinds of 25¢-50¢. The first two players fold. The next player opens for the minimum ...continued
So far in this series, we have looked at some general bluffing concepts, and have explored bluffing preflop, on the flop, and on the turn. This column and the next one will look at bluffing on the river. You can find all previous columns in this ...continued
It's a common question that takes many forms. "How many hands do I have to play before I know I'm a winner?" That's the most standard form of the question. "If I've won $12 per 100 hands for the last 10,000 hands, does ...continued
Because of my poker rules and writings, I get a lot of questions regarding rules. I recently got a question about the rules of high-low split when played with a declare. This game is rarely played in a casino, but is popular in private games. As far ...continued
Last time, we started surfing the pages of John Fox's underappreciated poker classic, Play Poker, Quit Work and Sleep Till Noon! We had determined that while Fox had an eye for the trenchant observation, he was also very much a product of his time ...continued
The early part of January is always time for my second-favorite tournament of the year. The main event of the World Series of Poker will always be number one in my heart, but the PokerStars Caribbean Adventure at the beautiful Atlantis Resort in the ...continued
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