Either He Was Winning, or I Was

It's black - it's white A very interesting - and intelligent - change has come over the poker community in recent years. Since the 1980s, I would hear people say, "I put him on ace-queen, so I …" or, "I put him on a straight draw, which meant …" That is,...

Wednesday Mar 26, 2008

published 148 days ago in
Card Player Magazine Volume 21, Number 6

European Poker Tour Notes

I'm at the European Poker Tour (EPT) event in Copenhagen, Denmark, as I write this. If you've never been to a poker tournament in Europe, you owe it to yourself to check out an EPT event. It's like every other poker tournament you've been to, except there are all kinds of...

Wednesday Feb 27, 2008

published 176 days ago in
Card Player Magazine Volume 21, Number 4

Back to Cash No-Limit Hold'em

"Ch-ch-ch-ch … changes" I started my poker career at the age of 7, perhaps even earlier. My dad would sit with my younger brother and me on the floor of our living room and we'd play five-card draw, using cheap plastic red, white, and blue chips. No money was involved, but I...

Wednesday Jan 30, 2008

published 204 days ago in
Card Player Magazine Volume 21, Number 2

The Brunson Transform

Warning: The first few paragraphs of this column may seem a bit geeky or nerdy. Stick with me - it will make sense shortly. Mathematicians, physicists, and engineers often find themselves facing very knotty mathematical problems. They're complex and difficult to solve, and yet, for whatever...

Wednesday Jan 02, 2008

published 232 days ago in
Card Player Magazine Volume 20, Number 26

Random Poker Protocol Thoughts

I don't usually write about poker protocol here. There are other people who care a lot more about it than I do, and mostly I think it's pretty boring. But I've had a handful of occasions recently to think about how we play poker (rather than how to beat the game, per se), so here goes...

Wednesday Dec 05, 2007

published 260 days ago in
Card Player Magazine Volume 20, Number 24

Misplay Two Hands With Lee

"I knew right then I'd made my third mistake" In some of my columns, I have described hands that I believed were played well (or poorly) by friends of mine. In this column, I will lay open, for the world to see, the train wreck I made of a couple of hands that I played recently....

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