• Government and Our Game - the Heat is On

  by Roy Cooke

  I'm not a lawyer, but my writing partner, John Bond, is. However, John doesn't devote the time to questions of gambling, and Internet and gaming law that some established authorities like I. Nelson Rose and Allyn Jaffrey Shulman do, and he is …continued

• Doyle Says, 'Let's Play an $80 Million Freezeout!'

  by Barry Shulman

  In the last issue of Card Player, I wrote about a challenge from Andy Beal, a Dallas financier, to a group of the very best poker players in the world, in which he offered to play them in the highest-stakes poker game ever - with pots often in the …continued

• Tournament Structuring

  by Bob Ciaffone

  I recently acquired the job of designing tournament structures for an online poker website. Designing tournament structures is scarcely something new for me; I have been active as a player throughout my poker career in lobbying for the kind of …continued

• A Worthy Midseason Approach

  by Chuck Sippl

  Now that the 2004 football season is well under way and we have more knowledge about the teams, it's time to be on the lookout to go with quality teams in high-percentage situations. One such situation can be the classic wagering case in which a …continued

• Can Players Take Advantage of Mistakes?

  by I. Nelson Rose

  The explosive proliferation of legal gambling has led to a new problem: What should be done about bettors who have taken advantage of operators' mistakes? The situation has been exacerbated by the increased popularity of automated games and gaming …continued

• To Fiddle or Not, That is the Question

  by Jan Fisher

  I am on the road so much that I rarely get to watch TV in the comfort of my own home. I have Tivo, which is the stone-cold nuts. For the 17 of you who don't know what that is, it is a 21st-century VCR thing that uses no tape, requires no entering …continued

• It's Not Real, is It?

  by Lou Krieger

  A lot of online poker play has convinced me that at most betting limits, poker games on the Internet are a lot looser than their brick-and-mortar counterparts. I assumed from the get-go that lower-limit games online would be loose - they always are - …continued

• Football, Poker Converge in Tom Elias Fantasy Football Kickoff Poker Event

  by Max Shapiro

  America's two favorite sports, football and poker, came together for the first time recently at the Tom Elias Fantasy Football Poker Championship at the Golden Nugget in Las Vegas. Fantasy sports league wagering is an estimated $3 billion …continued

• Mystery Shopper

  by Max Shapiro

  I was at the Barstow Card Casino (where else?) one day when Big Denny asked me a question. "Hey, Maxey, ya ever hears about an outfit called 'Misery Shopper'?" I searched my memory. "I think you might mean 'Mystery …continued

• The Big All In

  by Michael Cappelletti

  I was playing in an online no-limit hold'em tournament recently in which some other Card Player writers and I had $50 bounties on our heads. I made it to the final table, where my $65,000 in chips was third behind stacks of about $80,000 and …continued

• Mistakes in Online Draw: Playing Shorts

  by Michael Wiesenberg

  I find that I don't make nearly as much money in online draw from the brilliance of my own play as from the generally poor play of my opponents. In this and up-coming columns, I'll discuss common mistakes. If you don't make these mistakes, …continued

• Poker On an Amazing Run

  by Mike Sexton

  Poker has grown tremendously over the past two years. It has become a phenomenon throughout the country. The big reasons for that growth are television and online poker. And two of the most influential forces in these categories are the World Poker …continued

• Tournament of Champions

  by Phil Hellmuth

  What a lineup we had in the World Series of Poker Tournament of Champions, which was televised on ESPN: David "Chip" Reese, T.J. Cloutier, Phil Ivey, Daniel Negreanu, nine-time WSOP Champion Doyle "Texas Dolly" Brunson, reigning …continued

• And the Medium Beat Goes On

  by Roy West

  Hi. Come on in. I've made a bunch of fried egg sandwiches (with real eggs). Some are firm and some are runny. Put on your bib and dig in. You can run off the cholesterol later. I'm quite sure you must have noticed, as have I, that the stories …continued

• Championship Poker at the Plaza - Day One

  by Daniel Negreanu

  One of the coolest things about poker being televised now is that I can reference tournaments I've played in to come up with material for my column! I played in the Plaza event about four months before writing this column, so having the TV backup …continued

• Poker: The Real Deal, by Phil Gordon and Jonathan Grotenstein

  by Greg Dinkin

  If you've seen Phil Gordon on television hosting Celebrity Poker Showdown or winning a World Poker Tour event, it's probably hard to believe that he was once the biggest sucker at the table. In July of 1991, just after his 21st birthday, he …continued

• Making the Deal, or Not

  by Lee H. Jones

  "Cut the deck right in half - I'll play from either side." Today's topic is tournament deals. What's a deal? Quite often toward the end of a poker tournament, the payoff structure curves very sharply up in the last few positions. …continued

• Spirit Mountain Revisited

  by Linda Johnson

  It had been more than four years since I first visited Spirit Mountain Casino in Grand Ronde, Oregon, so I was happy to get an invitation to attend a charity event there recently. They invited four other Card Player columnists: Roy Cooke, Jan Fisher, …continued

• Be Afraid … Be Very Afraid!

  by Warren Karp

  It's fitting that I write this column as Halloween approaches, because scary things happen all the time in poker - like losing to the one guy at the table whom everyone else is beating like a drum, or having the only card in the deck that can beat …continued

• A Few Pot-Limit Problems

  by Rolf Slotboom

  As readers of this magazine probably know, I started my poker career playing limit hold'em almost exclusively for more than two years. After I had moved up to the middle and higher limits, my next step was moving up to pot-limit, which has now …continued

• Should You Bet a Scary Turn?

  by Barry Tanenbaum

  We all encounter scary things on a regular basis. Most of the time, these things, like roller coasters, haunted houses, and visits from in-laws, turn out to be pretty harmless (although, of course, I don't know your in-laws). In poker, we also …continued

• Playing the Percentages - Part II: No-Limit Hold'em Tournament Advice

  by Matt Lessinger

  Televised poker usually shows the percentage chance of winning next to each hand. When people see those percentages, they are often surprised that the "underdog" hand has a better chance of winning than they thought. That information can …continued

• The Annie Duke Story

  by Allyn Jaffrey Shulman

  A featured guest of Good Morning America, The David Letterman Show, and ESPN News, Annie Duke is enjoying the recognition that comes with having won millions playing professional poker. When asked about her recent fame, Annie humbly explained: …continued

• Call the Undertaker

  by Robert Varkonyi

  Call the undertaker. I've got a couple of bullets and I'm sending this guy home in a casket. Don't pull that trigger too quickly, Wild Bill Jr. When I pick up a couple of bullets in Texas hold'em, for insurance I like to be wearing my …continued

• A Different Plan of Action Depending on the Opponent

  by Andrew Shykofsky

  It can be very frustrating when you believe you are playing well enough to beat the bulk of the players at the table but still lose. This is amplified in the loose California middle-limit hold'em games in which drawouts can drive you to near …continued

• Making the Transition From Limit Hold'em to No-Limit Hold'em

  by Thomas Keller

  Even after several years of playing limit hold'em on a professional level, I was still terrified of no-limit hold'em. The thought of facing huge bets, losing my entire stack in one hand, and making one mistake that would cost me months of rent …continued

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