• Card Player Poker Freerolls: Play for Free and Qualify to Play on TV

  by Barry Shulman

  Calling all you freeroll junkies. Pack your bags and bring a big wallet. Card Player Poker, a great place to play in freerolls for real prizes, just got a whole lot better. Now, Card Player is offering our daily freeroll participants a chance to win …continued

• Proliferation Problems

  by Bob Ciaffone

  I turned 65 a few weeks ago. At that age, I am supposed to be thinking the world is going to the dogs, and yearn for the wonderful days of yesteryear. However, being a poker player, one has to acknowledge that times have never been this good. Never in …continued

• Attention! Getting One's Goat, and Giving a Gift

  by Jan Fisher

  There is always so much to cover in poker. I keep thinking that my column topics will run out, and then I find that I have a long list of items that I'd like to address. This column will cover some habits to avoid at the poker table, as well as …continued

• A Story I Couldn't Stomach

  by Max Shapiro

  Benjamin Franklin once famously wrote that in this world, nothing is certain but death and taxes. Old Ben forgot about Action Al. If anything is certain in this world, it is that if Al wants to track me down badly enough in an attempt to foist one of …continued

• The Best Defense

  by Michael Cappelletti

  My starting hand with three players remaining at the final table of a big online pot-limit Omaha high-low tournament was 8-6-4-2. It was my $8,000 big blind, and the chips were relatively equally divided (I had about $150,000 and the other two players …continued

• A Game Called H.O.R.S.E.

  by Michael Wiesenberg

  A recent poster to the BARGE mailing list wanted advice on how best to play all the games of H.O.R.S.E. This seems of general interest. BARGE member Alan Jaffray provided wonderful capsule strategies that would enable beginners to hold their own in …continued

• Issues of Concern

  by Mike Sexton

  The poker world seems to be flourishing quite well these days, and that is a good thing. But, all is not hunky-dory in the tournament world, as there are issues of concern for everyone: players, those who work in the industry, those who produce poker …continued

• Welcome to Miami

  by Phil Hellmuth

  At 10 p.m. one night recently, under an expansive white tent in the backyard of a spectacular private mansion on the water in Miami Beach, a man won a pot. "Young, free, cruising down the Westside Highway … just me and my girlfriend," …continued

• An Interesting Ruling and a New Year's Win

  by Tom McEvoy

  Kevin, a faithful reader, e-mailed me with a question about an unusual situation that came up in a game he was playing at a private club. What made the scenario especially interesting was that one of the players in the pot made the ruling - and he …continued

• An Awesome Read in Australia

  by Daniel Negreanu

  My second major stop on the tournament circuit for 2006 was the Crown Casino in Melbourne, Australia, home of World Champion Joe Hachem. I flew in the day before the main event, the Aussie Millions, from the Bahamas, which is quite the trip. The …continued

• Folding Aces

  by Lee H. Jones

  "Substitution, mass confusion" I recently got an e-mail from a friend of mine, Jeanne. She said, "Well, I finally did it: I folded aces before the flop." I thought, "This is going to be a good story." Jeanne was playing …continued

• More Odds and Ends

  by Linda Johnson

  Congratulations, Daniel! … Fellow Card Player columnist Daniel Negreanu is writing a weekly newspaper column that's carried by more than 35 newspapers with a combined daily circulation of 4 million readers, including the Boston Globe, …continued

• A Badly Misplayed Hand

  by Rolf Slotboom

  In loose-aggressive limit hold'em games, some of the most difficult hands to play are those that I really love in either tight-aggressive or loose-passive games: pocket queens and pocket jacks. In games in which lots of people see the flop even …continued

• Misplaying A-K

  by Mark Gregorich

  Without question, one of the trickiest hands to play in poker is big slick. Probably more people get busted out of no-limit hold'em tournaments with this hand than any other, and I've certainly done it my fair share of times. In this column, …continued

• Playing the Blinds in Limit Hold'em Part VI - Final Topics

  by Barry Tanenbaum

  As a wrap-up to this series on playing the blinds, here are a few final topics: • Playing the big blind when no one raises • Small-blind vs. big-blind play • Playing trash hands after the flop in multiway pots Playing the Big Blind When …continued

• To Bluff or Not to Bluff?

  by Matt Lessinger

  When I wrote The Book of Bluffs, one of my fears was that some readers would take some of its concepts to the extreme, and start bluffing in situations in which they had little or no chance of success. In fact, that was the main reason I included a …continued

• Let's Make a Deal!

  by Robert Varkonyi

  "This is Monty Hall, and let's make a deal! Do you want to pick door number one, door number two, or door number three? Now, do you want to switch doors?" Making a deal near the end of a tournament seems to be a big deal to some people. …continued

• My Protégé Speaks!

  by Thomas Keller

  I would like to introduce you to my protégé, Matt Anderson. He and I have written this column, and I hope you enjoy it and find it interesting and informative. Matt: Many of you have read Thomas' column for quite some time, but you …continued

• World Poker Tour Perennial Scotty Nguyen Wins First WPT Title: The World Poker Open in Tunica, MIssissippi

  by BJ Nemeth

  Mid-January on the poker calendar belongs to Tunica, Mississippi, with two major tournaments taking place in this riverside gambling town. The first was the World Poker Open at the Gold Strike Casino, the second stop for the World Poker Tour in 2006. …continued

• Handicapping Poker Tournaments

  by Matt Matros

  Poker has become so mainstream that it's actually possible to place wagers through online betting establishments on who will win most major poker tournaments. I wonder if the day will come when we'll walk into Vegas sportsbooks and see …continued

• Poker's Prince is Back 'On Track'

  by Justin Marchand

  Lately, Scotty Nguyen has played some razor-sharp poker. He finished fourth in the World Series of Poker Paris/Bally's Circuit event last November. He followed up with a second-place finish in a $2,500 buy-in preliminary event at Bellagio's …continued

• The Poker Diva: Liz Lieu Is a Breath of Fresh Air

  by Richard Belsky

  A walk through your typical tournament poker room can turn into a nightmarish dream sequence of three-day-old beards and accompanying body smells, half-chewed food resting unnoticed on T-shirt-covered potbellies, and scowls and stares from men whose …continued

• Five-Deuce Pickup

  by Michael Craig

  When I met Annie Duke last fall after reading her book, I described my brilliant idea for an article about her, which I would title, "Win a Date With Annie Duke." After registering her horrified expression - we had known each other for about …continued

• A Look at Backdoor-Flush Draws

  by Matthew Hilger

  A backdoor draw is one in which you need to hit a card on both the turn and river to improve your hand. For example, you hold the A 4 and the flop is Q 9 6. A club on the turn and the river would give you a flush. Backdoor draws are of little value by …continued

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