"They're all up in the suite," said Amnon Filippi at the base of the Bellagio elevator tower. I headed up the elevator to suite 24049. Steve Sung was playing online poker as I walked into the suite, while J.C. Tran was in a side room and Quinn Do walked out of another. Sitting on a ...
Lee Markholt may be known for his tournament success, which has garnered him a World Poker Tour title and more than $2.3 million in major-tournament winnings, but it's his cash-game play that is really his bread and butter. Since Markholt ...continued
At only 27 years old, Gavin Griffin already holds one of the most impressive collections of poker's most prestigious titles: World Series of Poker, European Poker Tour, and World Poker Tour championships. Now, Card Player is giving its readers a ...continued
Beginning in the 1990s, researchers, including Daphne Koller at Stanford and Darse Billings at the University of Alberta, began using limit hold'em as a model for computerized systems of incomplete information. At 17, Koller already had taught a ...continued
Governments Take Huge Bite Out of WSOP Final-Table Prize Pool Final Nine Collectively Owe About $14.7 Million in Taxes By Bob Pajich The tax monsters that help feed governments from all around the globe feasted heavily on the World Series of Poker ...continued
Welcome to The Scoop, the Card Player TV weekly program that features poker's old-school superstars and new-school Internet hotshots. Every episode of The Scoop discusses in-depth strategies and explores important issues within the poker world. ...continued
A handful of players made progress on the Card Player 2008 Player of the Year leader board during the past few weeks, but two of them made moves in the top 10, as Michael Binger and Vinny Pahuja added to their point totals. Binger won the third poker ...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. Hand No. 1 Event Pot-limit Omaha six-max cash game Players 6 Blinds $5-$10 Stacks ...continued
In this series, Card Player offers an in-depth analysis of the key hands that catapulted a player to a top finish, online or live. We will also reveal key concepts and strategies from the world's best tournament players, as we venture inside their ...continued
Many of the top online professionals first got their feet wet in sit-and-gos. Sit-and-gos require a unique skill set to maintain a positive return on investment. Sheer aggression might take down a multitable event, but sit-and-gos require a mastery of ...continued
When we were children, our parents sat us down to tell us a story before bed each night. While some had ogres and some had magic, the lone unifying factor in all of them was quite simple: The plot made sense. Bluffing in poker is extremely similar. ...continued
In poker, the most damaging four words to your wallet are "I had to call." Usually, these words are preceded by the phrase, "I knew he had it, but …" Put them together and you get something along the lines of, "I knew ...continued
With the economy in the dumps, isn't it nice when you can stretch that poker dollar just a bit further? SpadeClub, the Card Player-powered online poker community that gives away more than $100,000 each month, is lowering its subscription price ...continued
OK, out of respect to those who do not want to know what's coming on PAD (Poker After Dark), I will not mention what episode this hand came from, other than to say that it is a PAD high-stakes cash game to be aired in 2009. Furthermore, I will not ...continued
If Barack Obama and John McCain were duking it out in a heads-up poker match, instead of a presidential election, would Obama still have won? I think it would have been much more entertaining to let them decide who would next lead this great nation in ...continued
Not all poker is created equal. Poker is a generic term for many similar and dissimilar games, and some require very differing skill sets to play well. The "games within the game" have different dynamics requiring vastly different knowledge. ...continued
"No one can bluff in limit hold'em." How many times have you heard that? Do you believe it? While there may be a few limit hold'em games in which bluffing is too unlikely to work to even try, in general, bluffing can still increase ...continued
Low-stakes online no-limit single-draw deuce-to-seven lowball is a fine game for low rollers. This game, often called simply deuce, is offered online at stakes that brick-and-mortar cardrooms cannot support. You can find cash games with blinds as ...continued
Here's a question I hear all the time: "How short a stack can you play before it's not profitable anymore? At some point, the blinds eat you away too fast and you can't wait for a good hand anymore, right?" This question is based ...continued
This is a hand from the early days of the now-raging $1-$2 blinds, $5 bring-in ($500 max buy-in) game at Harrah's in St. Louis. The players in the two blinds - Ali and Vafa - are best pals and all-around good guys; they are also pretty lousy poker ...continued
Let us consider the so-called "coin flip" confrontation of overcards versus a pocket pair in no limit hold'em. Most players and even TV commentators call, say, 8-8 versus A-K "a coin flip." While I'm not fussy about precise ...continued
When you have a good made hand, you still have to fear straights and flushes. In no-limit hold'em betting, a player is unlikely to be able to make a flush or straight on the river unless he had that draw on the flop, or had something else working ...continued
This is my final column on suited aces. I want to summarize some of the key points from earlier columns, and then end with a hand I recently played in an online tournament. As I mentioned in the previous columns in this series, there are several ...continued
Poker great Doyle Brunson often says, "Don't just play your cards, play your people." Doyle is an immortal partly because he focuses on other people. We see again how unnaturally winners act. Is it natural to focus on yourself? Of course ...continued
I ran across an interesting situation that Hank Sparks posted on a popular Internet poker forum. With Hank's permission, here is an edited version of the situation, as he described it. The game is no-limit hold'em. It is heads up on the river ...continued
My two main passions in life are poker and traveling. As a partner in Card Player Cruises, I have the ideal job to fulfill these interests. I assure you that if you are looking for the perfect holiday gift for that hard-to-buy-for special person in ...continued
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