Yes, You Can Play Poker If You’re Impaired!

November 3, 2010

There’s a common bit of advice in poker that is almost universally accepted, but it’s wrong. The advice is that you should never play poker if you’re tired, distracted, or have been drinking. The intent of this advice is good, but the application is terrible. The truth is that in poker you profit when you [...]

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Big Stack Poker Play

November 3, 2010

There are few better situations in poker than to enter final table play as the big stack. However, there’s a big difference in coming to the final table with the chip lead and in knowing how to use your stack to take control of the final stages of a tournament. There are many players who [...]

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Min Check Raise

November 2, 2010

There are a lot of potentially horrendous moves to be made in No-Limit Hold ‘em: playing out of position with a marginal hand, chasing down a draw without the correct odds, overplaying (or underplaying) the nuts. All of these are horrible, horrible plays. But in my opinion, the worst play that you can make (and [...]

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Poker Things I Wouldn’t Do Over Again

November 1, 2010

I’ve been thinking back about my life as a poker player. Today, I’m so involved with my University of Poker, consulting, producing publications and videos, and doing research that I play only about 50 times a year. I usually play from $75-$150 to $200-$400 limits, rarely higher, stakes that I can easily afford. My lifestyle [...]

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Online Poker Tourney Bad Beats

November 1, 2010

Hi, my name is Richard and I am a poker bad beat expert. How did I become such an expert you may ask? I was playing in an online poker tourney at a well-know online casino gambling site and I made it to the final table in a large tournament. I was dealt Ace, Ace [...]

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Ego Damage

October 29, 2010

I first wrote the following column five years ago. It’s one of my most important life lessons, and I’d like to share it with you today. Just don’t tell anyone… Years ago I stopped bragging about my poker skills. Well, maybe I didn’t stop, but I slowed down a bit. I’m 51 now, but when [...]

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5 Great Poker Tips

October 27, 2010

1. 7-Stud: They’re More Likely To Be Bluffing, Not Less Likely – In reading poker tells, one of the most important things to do is watch your opponents look at the final river card. If it helps them, they’re very likely to only look for a short time. Then they’ll quickly place the card face [...]

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Caro’s Law Of Least Tilt: The Most Important Thing In Poker

October 26, 2010

Is it the Law of Averages? Certainly not! Well, surely it isn’t The Law of Gravitation? No. How about the Law of the Jungle? Funny, guess again! Oh, I see. You’re tired of guessing because you don’t know what the question is. Okay, I’ll repeat it: “In a poker game among eight equally matched world-class [...]

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Lose a poker pot by betting

October 25, 2010

Ideally, everybody who was knowledgeable in some field or who had a hobby would pledge to walk up to complete strangers at least twice on this day and offer some fact of interest. Each fact would begin with the words, “Did you know” The use of those exact words was very important, because — as [...]

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Why Fixed-Strategies Fail

October 21, 2010

Exactly what is game theory? Sure, if you’re an astute student of poker, you probably know what game theory is. If you’re schooled in higher mathematical concepts, you also know. Sort of. But the plain fact is, most poker players don’t have a clue. Don’t worry. Game theory is just a term you hear bandied [...]

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