An interesting scenario arose for me in the $1,500 pot-limit hold'em event at the World Series of Poker. I took down 14th place and a $21,000 payday, but I won't bore you with how the ladies (pocket queens) let me down a couple of times toward the end. Go to Article
One of the benefits of jetlag is that I had no problem being up and about at seven o'clock on Saturday morning to make my way to the Hard Rock Café to watch Ecuador beat England in the last sixteen of the soccer world cup. They didn't. My taxi driver was a poker sickie. Go to Article
We are playing at the Vic now but I thought I’d just fill you in on our last couple of days in Vienna. Ram went into day two of the main event as chip leader and his stack veered between average and huge for most of the day. Eventually he lost his chips to a certain soft spoken Irishman Go to Article
It's not that long ago, although it seems an age now, when the main event at a UK festival could well have been a slow clocked two day affair priced at what seemed at the time to be an astronomical monkey (they were sending primates into space back then as well as sending real pop stars to the Eurovision song contest).Go to Article
The chance of winning in poker is exactly identical to the odds of not winning, as the statistical odds of you winning against any given player are exactly the same no matter what the circumstances or skill levels involved. Once the cards are in play, then skills, luck, experience Go to Article
Does boredom strike you often? Perhaps you are milling around on campus waiting for your next class. Maybe you are counting the minutes while your vehicle is being worked on. Do you love to play poker games? Odds are you do. Poker continues to grow at an unstoppable pace. Go to Article
Every poker game is different. The strategys and tactics that work at one table can fail miserably at the next. One table may have three or four maniacs that want to cap every pot. Another may be full of rocks with no one stepping out of line. A good poker player will use vastly different tactics to combat these two situations. Go to Article
When I first started playing online poker I’d been playing regularly in casinos for four years and the idea of playing more than one game at a time seemed outrageous. With no one shuffling the cards, and dealing them out taking no time at all, even one online game seemed like plenty at first. Go to Article
Stop trying to force things to happen. Just concentrate on playing solid poker, and let the chips fall where they may.In fact, that's the best answer for almost any specific tournament question. Here is a more useful question: How much of a difference is there between ring game strategy and tournament strategy? Go to Article
Over countless years of evolution, nature has endowed humans with a set of abilities and features that serve us well in the everyday struggle for survival. Anything resulting from such a long evolutionary process, obviously works, and having been tested and verified millions of times over, it is 100% reliable. Go to Article
History of Pai Gow Poker lies in the fascinating ancient Chinese game of Pai Gow. The original game of Pai Gow was played by the Chinese with tiles that were similar to dominoes. These tiles, or dominoes, were separated into groups by the Pai Gow dealer and then a roll of the dice determined which set of tiles belonged to which player. In the 1800's different versions of the Pai Gow game existed in China. As other games, Pai Gow is believed to have been brought into the United States in the 1800's, by Chinese immigrants who arrived to work in mines and on the railways. In Califonia, this chinese game changed its name from Pai Gow to Pai Gow Poker to get around gambling laws.