• This and That About Poker

  by Jeff Shulman

  The $25,000 WPT Championship has begun at Bellagio. As I am writing this, we have completed both heats of day one. Because there were 450 players, the opening day of the tournament was split into two days. Heat A started on Monday and Heat B was held …continued

• Good Cards, Marginal Call

  by Roy Cooke

  I was playing $30-$60 hold'em at Bellagio. The under-the- gun player, a tight player who plays his hands well, opened the pot for a raise. I was in the second hole with the A J. If the under-the-gun player had folded, I definitely would have at …continued

• Hope Springs Nocturnal

  by Barry Mulholland

  It's 4 o'clock in the morning, and the buildup of glue on your chair is roughly equivalent to the buildup of chips that were formerly yours in your opponents' stacks. Under the gun, you limp in with the A◆ 2♥, which you know …continued

• Poker Analyst -- Free at CardPlayer.com

  by Barry Shulman

  If you divided all poker players in the world into winners and losers, you would find virtually no long-term loser who tracks results. That doesn't mean that all winners do track results, but it sure helps. Poker players ought to keep track of …continued

• King of the Party: Michael Gracz

  by Allyn Jaffrey Shulman

  The PartyPoker Million IV took place aboard Holland America's Oosterdam in late March. A total of 735 players vied for a prize pool of $7,207,108, guaranteeing two skillful players a shot at $1 million each in this limit hold'em event. Prior …continued

• Showdown Shame - Part I

  by Bob Ciaffone

  Of all the poker areas regulated by poker rules, the showdown is the most important. It is the point where the players show their hands and the pot is awarded. In this column, I would like to address the first part of that first sentence, the rules …continued

• Pennsylvania's New Slot Law

  by I. Nelson Rose

  "Politics is the art of the compromise." - Anonymous Legalizing gambling is not the same as decriminalizing it. When a state's lawmakers decide to make gaming legal, they never repeal the state's criminal anti-gambling statutes. …continued

• Poker's in the Air, On the Air, and On the Net!

  by Jan Fisher

  Everywhere you turn, there is poker. There are poker billboards, poker games and cards, chip sets, coffee cups with logos and suits of cards. There are playing cards embedded in toilet seats, Harley-Davidson's with royal flushes and A-A-2-3 …continued

• Backing Up

  by Lou Krieger

  Sometimes, big revelations come from small insights and occur so quickly that you don't even notice them until they spring, fully blossomed, like an oak tree from an acorn. "I'm losing on the river most of the time when I call," I …continued

• Big Denny Goes to Oxford

  by Max Shapiro

  My involvement with poker has taken me to some interesting locales, such as St. Maarten in the Caribbean, where I've done tournament writeups the past couple of years, Jamaica for the National Lampoon's Strip Poker filming, and, of course, the …continued

• Olympic Intellectual Sports

  by Michael Cappelletti

  I have long been an advocate of promoting both poker and bridge (and perhaps chess, also) as Olympic "intellectual sports." Maybe now that TV poker ratings are very high and everybody knows somebody who plays poker online, the Olympic …continued

• Casino Poker Games That Are Not Poker

  by Michael Wiesenberg

  I have been presenting in this series the rules for games that casinos claim are poker but are not. Here is a final look at more such games. Flop Poker: A house-banked card game that uses poker hand rankings, in which players do not compete against …continued

• The Biggest Party in Poker

  by Mike Sexton

  PartyPoker.com's flagship event, the PartyPoker Million, is known as "The Biggest Party in Poker." It's hard to refute that. The event is held annually aboard a luxurious cruise ship and is a combination of big-time poker (and I do …continued

• My Three Minutes with Mimi

  by Phil Hellmuth

  Finally, there was a big poker tournament that I didn't have to leave my hometown to play in. I consider Bay 101 in San Jose to be right in my backyard, and the PPT (Professional Poker Tour) tournament held there to be a fairly significant event. …continued

• Mom Taught Me Not to Steal, but Mom Never Played Poker

  by Roy West

  Hi. Come on in. We haven't had meatloaf for quite a while, so I've baked a large one containing the secret blend of spices and herbs that my sister taught me. (I think Grandma taught her about 30 years ago.) Carve off a hunk and dig in. A …continued

• Playing Too Many Hands, or Not Enough

  by Tom McEvoy

  You're in a tournament, you're in early position, and you pick up an A-6 suited. You think, "Gee, this is a pretty good hand if I flop a flush to it," so you play it. If this sounds like you, you're playing too many hands. And …continued

• Some Shorthanded Play

  by Jim Brier

  This is a five-handed $40-$80 hold'em game at The Mirage in Las Vegas. Since the hand involves actual players, I have changed their names to protect their identities. The hands are laid out in a question-and answer format so that you can decide …continued

• Rules

  by Mike O Malley

  I am currently in the process of writing a new rulebook, and in doing so, I have come across some rules I don't understand, some I don't like, and some I think should be changed. The more rules that I write about, talk about, and see in use, …continued

• Jack Binion World Poker Open -- Part II

  by Daniel Negreanu

  On day two of the championship event at the Jack Binion World Poker Open, nothing too interesting happened. My stack continued to increase and I ended the day with $141,500, which put me right in the middle of the pack; with 27 players remaining, I …continued

• Make-A-Wish

  by Linda Johnson

  I was pleased to be invited to play in the recent Pro/Am Celebrity Poker Tournament, benefiting the Make-A-Wish Foundation of Arizona and held at the Scottsdale Resort and Conference Center in Scottsdale, Arizona. This year's event included a full …continued

• How Many Clubs Would You Like?

  by Daniel Kimberg

  Every now and then, it's fun to play hands like the 6♣ 5♣ in a limit hold'em game - hands that have a few ways to hit and will be hard for anyone to see coming. Of course, fun can get expensive, and few poker strategists place …continued

• To Live and Die in L.V. - Part 2

  by Brad Reagan and Michael Kaplan

  Editor's note: Part I of this story, excerpted as is (unedited by Card Player) from the recently published Aces And Kings (Wenner Books), chronicled Stu Ungar's rise as a master gin player in New York, his growth into a great no-limit poker …continued

• Play a Night of Poker With Me -- Part I

  by Rolf Slotboom

  It is a busy Tuesday night in my regular cardroom. Because the weekly tournament is sold out, the cash game that I want to play cannot start until 9:30 p.m. Taking into account the closing time of the casino (3 a.m.), there will be only limited time …continued

• Taking Notes - Part III

  by Alan Schoonmaker

  Parts I and II discussed why and how you should take notes. This column will discuss what you should do with them. ORGANIZE THEM Because poker demands fast decisions, you can't rummage through a pile of disorganized slips of paper when you're …continued

• New Poker Lingo

  by Thomas Keller

  Poker has been growing at an exponentially fast pace in recent years, and new poker lingo is evolving at a fast rate, as well. Whether you play in brick-and-mortar casinos, online, or even in a weekly home game, I am sure that you have heard some new …continued

• No Regrets

  by Scott Fischman

  After playing an unimaginable amount of poker in the past few months, I have picked up on some pretty important concepts that have really helped me with my game and my life as a poker player. These "new" concepts are definitely not new, just …continued

• 'Buy Low, Sell High' and Implied Odds

  by Dan Abrams

  Poker is a game of exploiting mistakes. Make few and create opportunities for your foes to make many. The goal isn't to win the most hands, but to win the most money. Know the odds and how to exploit them. And if you don't know what "pot …continued

• New Kid in Town: Michael "The Kid" Gracz Takes Down the PartyPoker.com Million IV Title

  by Justin Marchand

  What do you get when you combine $7.4 million, 735 fired-up poker players, one of the finest cruise ships in Holland America's fleet, and seven days at sea sailing the Mexican Riviera? The answer is, the richest limit hold'em tournament in …continued

• Ask Chip and Karina

  by Chip and Karina Jett

  Q: I read somewhere that you guys skipped Reno and went to Pendelton, Oregon. Why? Karina: If you have never visited Wildhorse Casino for their semiannual poker roundup, you are missing out. We were treated like royalty by everyone from the Poker Room …continued

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