PokerStars.com proved itself to be the Poseidon of online poker rooms when, together with the Atlantis Resort Casino, it hosted the fourth-annual PokerStars Caribbean Adventure - the largest "live" online championship to date. Nearly 900 qualifiers and their guests, along with dozens ...
Players Set to Bump Heads in March NBC Invited 62 Players to Compete in the Third National Heads-Up Poker Championship By Bob Pajich The final list of 62 players invited to compete in the third NBC National Heads-Up Poker Championship has been set. ...continued
The eighth-annual World Poker Open returned to the Gold Strike Casino Resort in January. With four tournament events taking place in three different countries over 21 days, this World Poker Tour event was one of several overlapping January tournaments ...continued
As the rage for primero gradually subsided over the course of the 17th and 18th centuries, the most pokerlike pastimes in Europe were brag, pochen, and the newer French game of poque. An updated version of prime, poque was limited to four players, ...continued
The United States government has spent a good part of the last five months beating up online poker. Once the Unlawful Internet Gambling Enforcement Act - which was attached to a must-pass act to increase safety at our nation's ports - snuck ...continued
While watching Poker After Dark on NBC (at 2 a.m. Monday through Saturday "nights") recently, I saw some very interesting plays. Because they show every single hand that was played, you really get to see the caliber of the play, whereas in ...continued
Why would you ever want to play a silly hand like the 4 2? Well, sometimes a hand like that can win you a big pot, and it's hardly a coincidence that guys like "The Grinder," Phil Ivey, Erick Lindgren, myself, and others are often caught ...continued
Jennifer Harman is the only female to survive in the Big Game for any length of time, period. Any other story you hear about this woman did this or that and won in Vegas high-stakes poker is simply not true. While Jennifer suffers from emotional ...continued
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 ...continued
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 of mind ...continued
If you are going to survive over the long haul in the poker world, you need to be effective at dealing with some serious adversity. In other words, you need to learn how to be good at running bad. Recently, a couple of my good friends and I had plenty ...continued
Let's say that you have nothing on the river but an 8-high busted flush draw. You're down to your last $25 chip, there's a $400 pot at stake, and you're first to act with one opponent remaining. If you bet that final chip, most of the ...continued
The rotation game of H.O.R.S.E. has always been popular among high-stakes professional players, but it has now caught on among the plebeians, as well. In Part I of this two-part series, I looked at some of the traps players might fall into in limit ...continued
I think it's time that this is mentioned: The continuation bet has to be the most overused, poorly thought out bet in poker. Wait! Get your jaw off the floor. I am not saying that it's a bad play or that it shouldn't be used, because it ...continued
If there is one poker trip that every poker player should make, it is to the Aussie Millions, held in the Crown Casino in Melbourne, Australia. This tournament is located in a world-class international city, is run by top-notch poker management, and ...continued
This is the final part of a three-part series on my performance in the $6,500 main event at the Master Classics of Poker in November. After three days of hard work, I had made it to the televised final table as the chip leader. With a first-place ...continued
As the author of Robert's Rules of Poker, I get a lot of e-mail about poker rules, especially those that pertain to no-limit hold'em. Quite often, poker rules are enforced in a manner that might be appropriate for limit poker, but to mimic ...continued
"When you say 'Dylan,' he thinks you're talking about Dylan Thomas, whoever he was." Today's music quote comes from Paul Simon's brilliant (even after 40 years) song, A Simple Desultory Phillipic. He's poking fun at a ...continued
In this column, I'm going to take a break from my usual strategy-focused columns, and focus on something that I believe is just as important, if not more important, than covering how to play aces from under the gun or how to properly attack ...continued
As I write this, it is only late January and I've already played in tournaments in Dublin, Ireland, and Melbourne, Australia. American tournament organizers could learn a lot about how to treat players and advertisers (including websites) from ...continued
Accountants are people who tend to get excited about boring things. It sounds a bit scary, but ask a CPA something about the latest tax-law changes and watch what happens. Her eyes light up and, believe it or not, a smile will probably form. Yes, ...continued
Rachael Ray is a cultural phenomenon of our times, a whole food industry unto herself. As of this writing, she has several TV shows on the Food Network, including a talk show, a cooking show (30-Minute Meals), and a travel show ($40 a Day) in which ...continued
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