• To Get Answers, You Must Ask Questions

  by Roy Cooke

  I have written often that before I enter a game, I like to watch it. In live games, I watch while I'm on the lists. In Internet games, I just pop the game up on the screen and watch for a while. I find that even a brief period of observing before …continued

• South Carolina Gambling Laws

  by Bob Ciaffone

  In my last column, I described how a group of men from South Carolina, mostly businessmen, were playing in a friendly poker tournament in their apartment-complex recreation room and were busted by the police. Their lawyer, Jeff Phillips (himself a …continued

• Would You Checkmate Your Own Grandmother?

  by Brian Mulholland

  You're playing a chess match with your grandma, with whom you share a love of the game. You spend a stimulating 90 minutes threatening each other's pieces; you each maneuver, block, chase, and jockey - and now you have her outflanked. Her …continued

• The College Bowl Season

  by Chuck Sippl

  Once again this season, the NCAA has approved a large postseason bowl slate of 28 games. That means 56 of the current 117 Division I-A teams will be going "bowling" in the postseason. That's virtually half of the I-A teams, just about …continued

• When Harry Met Wolfgang

  by Max Shapiro

  I was in a happy mood. I had just gotten my Card Player check, which paid for a full-course dinner at Burger King, with enough left over for a buy-in to a $2-$4 game later that night. But the moment I walked into the casino, my cheery disposition …continued

• Where to Find Online Draw

  by Michael Wiesenberg

  Draw poker has not yet died, although it did seem to be in intensive care for a while. You'll have a hard time finding draw poker in public cardrooms in the United States and Canada. You will find the game in a very few casinos in Australia, the …continued

• An Interview With Joe Hachem - World Champion

  by Mike Sexton

  Joe Hachem As you know, Joe Hachem is the 2005 world champion of poker. He beat a record field of more than 5,600 players to capture that title and take home $7.5 million! What you might not know is that the poker industry is in good hands with Hachem …continued

• Tournament of Champions - Part I

  by Phil Hellmuth

  Recently, I played in the Tournament of Champions (TOC), along with 110 other players. Legends Johnny Chan and Doyle Brunson, along with myself, were invited to play in the event, as we are some of the biggest World Series of Poker (WSOP) tournament …continued

• More on Bluffing, or Rather, Not Bluffing

  by Roy West

  Hi. Come on in. I had a bucket of spaghetti, a large antipasto salad, and four orders of garlic toast delivered. Put on your bib and dig in while we explore another dark corner of your poker mind. Every low-limit poker player in the Western Hemisphere …continued

• On the Road Again

  by Tom McEvoy

  I recently made two poker trips, and I would like to give a recap of them, especially since I booked money finishes at each stop. My first trip was to visit my friend and student, Greg Carelli, in Boulder, Colorado. I flew into Denver, where Greg …continued

• Foul Language - Other Games and Sports

  by Mike O Malley

  In a previous column, I briefly discussed the controversial "F-Bomb" rule, which assesses a player a penalty for using the F-word. I believe the rule is a good steppingstone to cleaning up the image of poker and will help steer future rules …continued

• Go Big or Go Home!

  by Daniel Negreanu

  I recently played in a World Series of Poker Circuit event at Bally's-Paris in Las Vegas and was involved in a hand that seemed pretty straightforward to me. Later, when I opened the message boards at http://www.fullcontactpoker.com/, I saw that …continued

• A Special Charity Event

  by Linda Johnson

  At a WPT Boot Camp early this year, I met Parrel Caplan and Beth Evans. They were at the camp to learn more about poker, with the goal of putting on a huge poker fundraiser for the Juvenile Diabetes Research Foundation in Minnesota. They wanted to do …continued

• The Peter Principle and Regression Toward the Mean

  by Daniel Kimberg

  You work hard at your game. You read books and magazines. You practice live and online. You watch videos and TV. You run simulations, you talk to friends, you read discussion groups, and you keep detailed records and notes. Yet, there are forces that …continued

• Planning Your Personal Development Part II

  by Alan Schoonmaker

  If you don't know where you want to go, you probably won't like wherever you end up. That point is obvious, yet many players either don't set goals or set ones that have little planning value. Good goals provide both a sense of direction …continued

• Blurbs From Foxwoods

  by Mark Gregorich

  I recently returned from a week at Foxwoods, where I attended the World Poker Finals. I made the trek across the country for two main reasons: to play in the World Poker Tour main event there, which figured to be a monster tournament (and it was), and …continued

• Playing the Blinds in Limit Hold'em Part I - Universal Considerations

  by Barry Tanenbaum

  If you play in a 10-handed game, you will spend 20 percent of your time in the blinds. In a sixhanded game, that number jumps to 33 percent. In spite of this, players spend much more time thinking about all of the other positions than they do about …continued

• Staying One Mental Step Ahead of the Competition Part II

  by Thomas Keller

  Welcome back to the second part of my two-part series on levels of thinking in poker. This column is devoted entirely to the third and most confusing level of poker thinking. Don't get discouraged if you find it difficult to understand, especially …continued

• Playing With Evelyn Ng Suited in Hearts for the Cover of Card Player or Vogue

  by Lee Munzer

  This photo by Melissa Hayden all others by BJ Nemeth Evelyn Ng's poker debut on the Travel Channel was exciting. She and Clonie Gowen turned away four top professionals, and then engaged in an aggressive heads-up battle for the season-two …continued

• Pass the Trash, Boys

  by Lee Munzer

  Amidst continual congenial chatter, Bumper (this persistent raiser is nicknamed appropriately) antes two 25-cent chips and, after giving each player four downcards, sloppily slides eight cards facedown in front of him. I would ask what game we're …continued

• The 2005 World Series of Poker Tournament of Champions: The One We've All Been Waiting For

  by BJ Nemeth

  Poker's "Man in Black" Hoyt Corkins (left) faces offagainst Mike Matusow in the final showdown. This is the one we've been waiting for since poker exploded on TV. Ever since 2003, when the World Poker Tour debuted on the Travel …continued

• Defending Blinds

  by Matt Matros

  Limit hold'em is my game of choice because players are required to make meaningful decisions on every street. Often in no-limit hold'em, all the decisions are made preflop, and a lot of those decisions aren't very interesting. Don't …continued

• Disassociating the Ego Part I: The Duel

  by Joe Sebok

  To become a successful poker player, one must acquire the ability to completely and totally peel one's ego from oneself while at the table. You must become one within the game and let no part of your own psyche play a role in the decisions you …continued

• The X Factor

  by Byron Jacobs

  There is a very simple test in chess that is a good indicator of natural talent for the game. It can be taken by anyone who knows how the pieces move, and it is particularly interesting to see how players of various abilities cope with it. …continued

• Stuck 'n' Stinkin' for Three Days

  by Michael Craig

  Ted Forrest It is 12:30 a.m. at Foxwoods, Monday morning. In less than three hours, I have to drive to Hartford, return my rental car, and brave a six-hour flight home. I can either grab a couple hours of sleep or see if Ted Forrest is still playing …continued

• Big Apple Busts

  by Isabelle Dupuis

  A curtain has fallen over New York City's cardrooms. A series of police raids that began last spring and peaked again in October have effectively put an end to a chapter in the city's poker history. First they stormed the Playstation and the …continued

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