• Some Late-Position Play

  by Jim Brier

  Hold'em Essentials By Jim Brier Some Late-Position Play By "late-position play" I am referring to situations when you are either in the cutoff seat or on the button, and either you or the cutoff has initiated the action preflop with …continued

• Costa Rica Unlimited - Part I

  by Michael Cappelletti

  As we deplaned at Costa Rica's modern international airport, my wife, son (age 12), daughter (age10), and I were met by friendly faces who whisked us through customs and the thriving, bustling, big capital city of San José to the five-star …continued

• Nice Guys Finish First

  by Johnny Chan

  This is a two-part column. The first part is about a guy with a lot of character and personality. I first met Jay Botchman in the late '80s at the Mirage in Las Vegas, where he played poker a lot. He came in from New York and I liked his style. He …continued

• For the Woman Poker Player

  by Spring Cheong

  Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe, a great German writer, adored women. He wrote his autobiographical novel Faust when he was 80 years old. In that novel, he concluded that human beings could be saved through a woman's endless patience and lofty spirit …continued

• Tunica Tournament

  by Bob Ciaffone

  My favorite place to play poker is in Tunica, Mississippi, the pot-limit Omaha capital of our country. For the last two years, I have attended the Jack Binion World Poker Open at Tunica's Gold Strike Hotel. It is one of 11 casinos bordering the …continued

• The Cowboy and the Queen

  by TJ Cloutier

  Back in the old days when the Horseshoe was in its prime, I was watching a big no-limit hold'em game in which the blinds were $50-$50-$100. Cowboy Wolford was playing and I was sitting behind him. As the dealer dealt the cards, she exposed a …continued

• A Play of Position

  by Roy Cooke

  We were into Sunday morning after a fired-up Saturday night at Bellagio in Vegas. The game was full of loose tourists. You couldn't get them out of a pot with a gun. They just wanted to play! A very aggressive, loose tourist was firing away at …continued

• Spin City: Hollywood Park Casino Puts a New Spin on Poker Jackpots

  by Cover Story

  The pleas from players were all the same: "When are you going to bring them back?" "Everyone else has them. Why don't you?" "I'm going to play somewhere else if you don't bring them back!" The references being …continued

• Stepchildren Striking Back: Poker Players as Casino Customers

  by Nolan Dalla

  Conventional thinking in the casino industry goes something like this: Poker players are at, or very near, the bottom of the list of preferred customers. Sure, casinos tell us poker is important, and that it's an integral part of …continued

• Player of the Year Commentary

  by Nolan Dalla

  Editor's note: The following commentary takes into account performance results through The Bicycle Casino's Legends of Poker tournament. John Juanda skyrocketed to the top of the Player of the Year standings with a spectacular run of …continued

• Start From a Position of Strength

  by Greg Dinkin

  My friend Doc took every penny he had and sat down in a pot-limit hold'em game. In this particular hand, there was $4,000 in the pot and Doc was down to his last $1,000. Jake, his opponent, put him all in with a bet of $1,000, and Doc had an easy …continued

• The Wednesday Poker Group

  by Jan Fisher

  There has been a great deal going on in the poker community these past few months, and the remainder of the year promises to be just as active. There are several big events coming up as well as some smaller happenings and out-of-the-country …continued

• $1,500 Razz: The Distinguished Gentlemen Beat<p>the Grumpy Old Men<p>

  by Andrew N.S. Glazer

  Editor's note: This is one in a series of articles originally written for an Internet website the 2001 World Series of Poker tournament events. For the first two hours at the final table of the $1,500 buy-in razz tournament at the 2001 World …continued

• My Biggest Loss

  by Phil Hellmuth

  Up until the past two years, I focused a ton of my energy and time on playing in side games. It didn't matter whether I was winning a lot of tournaments or not, I always put a lot of effort into these games. When you are winning in $400-$800 side …continued

• Sometimes ...

  by Jeff Shulman

  I spent Labor Day weekend in Seattle because my cousin was getting married, and it was a chance to see some of my old friends. At the wedding reception, I had the privilege of sitting next to my cousin, Aaron Alhadeff, whom I hadn't seen in at …continued

• Poker in Costa Rica

  by Lou Krieger

  "The monkeys have my hat! The monkeys have my hat!" Someone was shouting that out at the top of his lungs, or maybe it was the silent voice inside my head screaming to me as I swung through the jungle like Tarzan. Well, I was not swinging on …continued

• Commerce Casino Hosts Ladies Poker Dream Weekend

  by Linda Johnson

  All records were broken during the recently concluded Ladies Poker Dream Weekend tournament at Commerce Casino in Commerce, California. Tournament Director Cheri Dokken was pleased with the turnout of more than 400 entrants who vied for the coveted …continued

• Is a Good Defense the Best Offense?

  by Tom McEvoy

  I received an E-mail from James that came just as I was watching Tiger Woods win a golf playoff on the seventh "sudden death" hole. (Actually, it was more like "slow death" for his opponent, I'm sure.) The timing seemed …continued

• Carrots and Sticks

  by Barry Mulholland

  Given the same cards in the same situations against the same players, and employing the same tactics, some poker players will realize more profit than others. As David Sklansky pointed out in a recent column, some people have a knack for inspiring …continued

• Never Judge a Book by Its Cover

  by Daniel Negreanu

  The year was 1998 and I'd just had a very successful tournament at Foxwoods, building my bankroll up to $60,000 from $2,000 a month before. The Rio was holding its annual Carnivale of Poker tournament in January, and now that I had money, I …continued

• Mucking Aces Preflop at the World Series of Poker - Part II

  by Q Q

  You are at the final table of the World Series of Poker championship and hold pocket aces in the big blind. There are three other players left. Each of you has the same amount of chips. The player under the gun goes all in … the button goes all …continued

• New Features, New Staff

  by Marshall Ragir

  CardPlayer.com is now publishing new content every day! I will go into the details as the features begin to show up on the site. First, I'd like to welcome some new members of the CardPlayer.com staff. Many of you know Scott Lundberg, who has been …continued

• An Open Letter

  by Reader's Forum

  For the past 15 years, I have traveled all around the country to play poker tournaments. During these years, I have won so many tournaments that I can't count them all. Some of them include the World Series, the Hall of Fame, state championships, …continued

• Scandals

  by Mike Sexton

  The whole world probably knows about the scandal at last month's Little League World Series. I just can't get the sick feeling I have about it out of my system. I also get that sick feeling when I think about potential scandals in major poker …continued

• Feng Shui in Barstow

  by Max Shapiro

  Driving back from Vegas one day, I stopped in Barstow to visit with Big Denny. "Hi ya, Maxey," he greeted me. "Kin I treat ya ta lunch at our four-star buffet? We got pig snout dis week. I got dem cheap on account of dere's an …continued

• Thinking a Good Game Early in the Season

  by Chuck Sippl

  I've mentioned in these pages several times before that handicapping, more than anything else, is a mind game. You're not only matching wits against the oddsmaker, you're testing your own knowledge of the game and (when it comes to money …continued

• Jim Boyd: 'Mr. Foxwoods,' aka 'The Comeback Kid'

  by Dana Smith

  The hotel room was quaint, one of the original shoebox rooms in the ancient east wing of Binion's Horseshoe in Downtown Las Vegas. Furnished with a turn-of-the-century carved oak dresser and a tall armoire for hanging clothes, ornate wallpaper, …continued

• by Roy West

  Hi. Come on in. Cut off a hunk of salami and some provolone. We'll knosh while we talk poker. Let's look at another of "Roy's Rules." Don't underestimate your opponent. Just because that novice player has been in almost every …continued

• Playing Lowball Against a Maniac - Part II

  by Michael Wiesenberg

  Last issue I started to answer the question, how do you play lowball against a maniac? In a word, carefully. You can isolate the maniac, but you have to do it just right. After losing a huge pot to a player who had drawn and made a 7, when Charleston …continued

• Ropin' in a Big Bet With Jesse in Corpus

  by Byron 'Cowboy' Wolford

  In 1960 when I retired from rodeoing, I went home to Tyler, Texas, and barned my roping horse at Daddy's ranch for the last time. I had been playing poker around rodeos since I was 10 years old, so it seemed natural to me to start playing cards …continued

• by Rick Young

  Do you ever slow-play big hands in a no-limit hold'em tournament? If not, you should be utilizing this effective weapon whenever it is appropriate. First, let me define what I mean by slow-playing. Another term for this word is sandbagging. This …continued

• The Different Stages in a Player's Life

  by Ray Zee

  The riddle of the sphinx was the question, what walks on four feet in the morning, two feet in the afternoon, and three in the evening? The answer was man. So, you ask, how does that relate to poker? Well, it really doesn't, but with a far stretch …continued

• The Birth and Growth of the World Series of Poker

  by Lee Munzer

  History tells us that in 1970, Johnny Moss was voted the winner after the first World Series of Poker (WSOP) concluded. A panel of his peers elected him champion. They were: Crandall Addington, Doyle Brunson, Carl Cannon, Thomas "Amarillo …continued

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