With an impressive 2006, Roland De Wolfe ensured that he would be known as one of Europe's top poker exports. The scary thing is that De Wolfe is just getting started. In just over a year of playing live events, this London-born, 27-year-old "Friend" of FullTilt has racked up more ...
Harrah's Expands 2007 World Series of Poker Schedule to 55 Events Schedule Includes 13 'Championship' Events, Including Main Event By Bob Pajich It didn't seem like Harrah's could pack any more tournaments into the month-and-a-half ...continued
In a year that saw World Series of Poker records shattered, and Internet poker branded with the label "unlawful gaming," 2006 came to a close with a tournament that honored one of poker's few consistent forces - Doyle Brunson. The Doyle ...continued
In March 2003, attempting to enlist allies in our war with Iraq, President Bush implied he would call France's bluff in a Security Council vote on whether to support an invasion. "It's time," he said, "for people to show their ...continued
Many skeptics predicted that online poker would dry up because of the Unlawful Internet Gambling Enforcement Act. But, what took place at the Atlantis Resort Casino on the tropical island of Grand Bahamas during the second week of January proves ...continued
Over Christmas in Madison, Wisconsin, we had the annual holiday poker game. It was pot-limit hold'em with $5-$5 blinds, a $1,000 buy-in, and $500 rebuys. This was a hefty-sized poker game for Madison! After years of winning during my Madison ...continued
I felt great about my chances going into the final event of 2006, for a few reasons: (1) I'd won this event before, in 2004; (2) we started with $30,000 in chips; and (3) I had just come off an important 27th-place finish in my last event at ...continued
Chip and Doyle can be heard more often in a poker room than chips and salsa in a Mexican restaurant. When not trying to cut each other's throat at the table, these two have been the best of friends for more than 30 years now. Besides playing ...continued
When playing large pots in limit hold'em games, unless your hand is virtually unbeatable, the most important concept is to give yourself as great a chance to win the pot as possible. When the pot is large, even hands with a small chance of winning ...continued
You may remember the old Andre Agassi commercials from the 1980s with the tag line, "Image is Everything." At the time, he was trying to sell Canon cameras, and I'm sure that he had no intention of talking about poker, but that tag line ...continued
If someone said he'd gone to Giants Stadium wearing Dallas Cowboys gear, and then wanted to know what to do when some of the fans started threatening him, what would you tell him? I'd probably tell him that he shouldn't have worn his ...continued
I was playing poker at Bellagio recently, absolutely getting my brains beaten in, when I felt a tap on my shoulder. It was none other than my friend Craig Hartman, a successful businessman and poker player from Indiana, who wanted to tell me a poker ...continued
The most common mistake players make when slow-playing is focusing on their hand's absolute strength rather than its comparative strength. For example, many players instinctively slow-play when they make a flush, figuring that it's a big hand, ...continued
Continuing this series of columns regarding how to play the turn from out of position, we'll consider this case: You bet the flop and got raised, and you called. Many players play automatically in this position, simply checking to the raiser on ...continued
Very few players succeed in both tournaments and cash games. Generally, you find players who are specialists. Maybe they travel the tournament trail around the country, playing the World Poker Tour and World Series of Poker Tournament Circuit events. ...continued
In a loose no-limit hold'em game, you raised before the flop with a high pocket pair (kings), got several callers, and flopped three undercards (no pair), with two cards of the same suit. The pot is large, about one-third of your current stack. Is ...continued
This is the second in a three-part series on my performance in the $6,500 main event at the Master Classics of Poker in November. Having made it to the third day with an average stack of about 65K, I am happy to see that again there has been no redraw ...continued
How much does tilt really affect the outcome of a hand or even a whole tournament? I think it has a much greater effect than many believe, and therefore I believe it is important to discuss it. Many players ignore it and just say, "I never ...continued
2006 has been a long and frustrating poker year for me. I have not had particularly good results in tournaments or cash games. I never like to blame bad results on bad luck, but I sure think I've been unlucky in a lot of key situations. Possibly, ...continued
Is the dealer supposed to run the game, or should he just "deliver the mail" and let the game run itself? More specifically, should the dealer intervene when a rule is broken, or sometimes leave it up to the players to request his ...continued
"But the winds of change - they fill the air …" There's nothing like a good home poker game. If you don't play in one, ask around, as there's one going on somewhere near you (probably tonight or tomorrow night), and ...continued
A while back I read a newspaper article that derided the increasing use of "doublespeak" in Washington. Doublespeak refers to words and phrases designed either to sooth sensibilities or conceal as much as they reveal. One example is a ...continued
Copyright © 2001-2024
CardPlayer.com. All rights reserved.
