• Readers Respond to My Hall of Fame

  by Roy Cooke

  I recently invited Card Player readers to respond to my "Hall of Fame" column, and, boy, did they ever! I knew that making such a list would be controversial and generate debate, but hey, that's part of the fun of it all. I'd first …continued

• Those Confusing Underbets in No-Limit Hold'em

  by Tom McEvoy

  Underbetting the pot in no-limit hold'em - raising the minimum amount - can be a very deceptive play that often confuses your opponents. Making a small raise is one way to slow-play a big hand. Slow-playing a hand in an effort to trap an opponent …continued

• It's How You Set Your Sails

  by Mike Sexton

  This column is a letter sent to me by a friend of mine, Phil "Doc" Earle. Doc is a very good poker player, is of high intellect, philosophical, and somewhat eccentric, and has made mistakes along the journey of life that many of us have …continued

• Lay it Down! Survive!

  by Phil Hellmuth

  The World Series of Poker has my full attention! After three cashes in about eight events played, I finally made a final table in the pot-limit hold'em event on May 10. Believe me when I tell you that getting there wasn't easy. At the …continued

• World Poker Tour Caribbean Adventure - Part IV

  by Daniel Negreanu

  Here I was finally, at the final table of a World Poker Tour event. The first WPT season had gone very poorly for me, and I had experienced a heartbreaker in the first event of the WPT's second season, finishing seventh in Paris. Winning this …continued

• Early World Series of Poker Results Foretell Poker's Future

  by Andrew N.S. Glazer

  At the 2003 World Series of Poker, six players, all more or less established stars, won two bracelets each, and final table after final table (especially in the pot-limit and no-limit events) was filled with star players. Everyone agreed that this was …continued

• World Series Follies

  by Max Shapiro

  Well, here I am spending a delightful month at the World Series again, slaving away and staying up all night writing tournament reports as a fill-in for Andy Glazer. This time it was for a new online information portal, Finaltablepoker.com, started by …continued

• The Biggest Mistakes in No-Limit Sit-and-Go Tournaments

  by Lee H. Jones

  It was then I knew I had made my first mistake. For a long time at major tournaments, one-table satellites have been a popular way to win a seat into larger events. For instance, you have a $3,000 no-limit hold'em event. So, before the event …continued

• Playing Tough

  by Michael Cappelletti

  When you pick up a 7-2 offsuit, do you automatically toss the hand? Or, do you routinely look around and check out the table? Even some of the best poker players sometimes fail to capitalize on opportunity. When I was first learning to play poker, my …continued

• World Poker Tour Celebrity Invitational - Part III

  by Linda Johnson

  When we left off last issue, I was down to $6,900 in the World Poker Tour Celebrity Invitational, and the level was about to rise to a $100 ante and $400-$800 blinds. I have chronicled the hands I played and my thought processes throughout the …continued

• The 'Silent Killer' in Baseball

  by Chuck Sippl

  When it comes to sports betting, there always seems to be a few "foolers" if you just look at things on the surface. In football, for instance, one "fooler" can be the team that runs up lots of points against weak opposition early …continued

• Modernizing Internet Poker

  by Bob Ciaffone

  To introduce this column, I would like to quote from a portion of the words that knowledgeable columnist Steve Zolotow wrote in the Feb. 27, 2004, issue of Card Player. By doing so, I can both use his eloquence and show that my views have support from …continued

• Life Rhythms, Poker Rhythms, and Biorhythms. Winning Helpers?

  by Roy West

  Hi. Come on in. I know you like mushrooms, so this time, as promised, I've used my crockpot to make mushroom soup with veggies. It looks more like a stew, so keep a fork handy. There has been a renewed interest in biorhythms. For some poker …continued

• Daniel Negreanu: AKA 'Kid Poker'

  by Allyn Jaffrey Shulman

  Canadian-born Daniel Negreanu, also known as "Kid Poker," is a 29-year-old, lighthearted, popular player, respected for always telling it like it is. One can usually find Daniel talking up a storm, speaking in any number of foreign accents …continued

• An Interesting Hand Against The Master

  by Diego Cordovez

  Men "The Master" Nguyen's trademark cackle announced his arrival long before he reached our table. We were down to the final 40 players (out of 166 starters) in the World Series of Poker H.O.R.S.E. event, and I was nursing an average …continued

• A Semibluff Succeeds

  by Rolf Slotboom

  It's one of those nice and quiet Sunday afternoons. Usually, this would be my day off, because on Sundays there are no big pot-limit games in my regular cardroom. But because I haven't played any long limit hold'em sessions in quite a …continued

• A Seven-Card Stud Puzzle

  by Matt Lessinger

  Note: This puzzle is loosely translated from an actual live-game situation. Moe, Larry, Curly, and Shemp were all playing in the same seven-card stud game together. Moe and Shemp were the two strongest players in the game, and when they could help it, …continued

• Two Hands to Think About

  by Jan Fisher

  I have such a hectic and crazy lifestyle these days, with everything that is happening in poker, that seldom am I home for any length of time at all. For the past four years, I have been on the road about 45 weeks per year, and I love every minute of …continued

• Three-Bet the Flop or Check-Raise the Turn?

  by Barry Tanenbaum

  Playing limit hold'em, you have finally flopped something good and bet it out, and someone has raised you. Of course, you want to punish him, take more of his money, and establish your proper place as Hero of Poker, but how best do you do it? …continued

• Play a Tournament With Me

  by Rick Young

  Last September I played in a tournament at the Four Queens in Downtown Las Vegas. It was no-limit hold'em with a $120 buy-in and one rebuy of $100. I started off the tournament rather uneventfully. I picked up a few small pots here and there, and …continued

• A Bad-Beat Story at the World Series of Poker - With a Twist

  by Greg Dinkin

  So, how did you get busted? After making the mistake of telling my friends that I was playing a World Series event (Omaha eight-or-better), I was faced with having to tell them that I busted out before the first break. They, of course, wanted a great …continued

• A Deeper Understanding of Your Opponents

  by Andrew Shykofsky

  Let's assume your intention is to reach a point of obtaining greater profit from playing poker. The money you earn is brought to the table by your opponents, the majority of whom lose consistently yet likely return to the cardroom always hoping …continued

• The College Poker Championship, Where Cash Scholarships and Charitable Donations are Won at the Poker Table

  by Lou Krieger

  With all the excitement about the World Poker Tour and the World Series of Poker, it's easy to overlook another championship event that's been flying under the radar of those among us who no longer spend our days on a college campus. But for …continued

• Talk the Talk and Walk the Walk

  by Robert Varkonyi

  A couple of years ago I sat down in my favorite game in Atlantic City to find myself sitting across from the "table expert,"; who thought it was necessary to comment on just about every hand from beginning to end. It was a little annoying, …continued

• Taking Two Cards in Online Draw

  by Michael Wiesenberg

  Knowing what a two-card draw means in online draw poker games will improve your win rate. Since you can't see the players, you have to figure out the meaning by inference and interpolation - based on your opponents' previous actions. This is …continued

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