• Spoil Yourself With a Card Player Cruises Poker Vacation!

  by Linda Johnson

  You probably know by now how addicted I am to cruises, especially poker cruises. This is one of the reasons I originally became involved in Card Player, and why I am one of the owners of Card Player Cruises. In fact, I have been on approximately 50 …continued

• Poker as a Life

  by Roy Cooke

  Players often ask me if I think they should go pro in poker. The answer is almost invariably a resounding, "No!" But, as is the case with most difficult questions in both life and poker, the answer is always: It depends. Choosing any career …continued

• How Many One-Table Satellites Should You Play? By Brad Daugherty, Guest Columnist, and Tom McEvoy

  by Tom McEvoy

  Let me ask you this question, Tom: How does it affect your emotional state when you start your tournament day by playing a satellite or two and you lose? "When I know for sure that I'm going to play a tournament whether or not I win a seat …continued

• Look Who's Playing Poker

  by Mike Sexton

  It seems people from all walks of life are enjoying poker today. Millions watched the excitement and drama unfold weekly on the World Poker Tour, and more and more people are now playing poker because of it. Poker's growth is also increasing …continued

• Trying to Do Something Special

  by Phil Hellmuth

  I assume you know that I have a big ego; why else would I write Play Poker Like the Pros? In any case, I was looking to create a great story when I flew into Las Vegas on Monday, June 30 two hours late for the $1,500 buy-in pot-limit Omaha tournament …continued

• Online Poker is Too Much Fun! - Part I

  by Daniel Negreanu

  If you have already ventured into cyberspace to play poker, you know what I mean when I say online poker is too much fun. If you haven't played online, why not? Sure, I understand there are some drawbacks, but there are several benefits that more …continued

• Beware of Smart People Bearing Propositions

  by Andrew N.S. Glazer

  I started gambling quite early in life, encouraged not merely by (of all people) my mother, but also from information I gleaned from what was then a new (but ultimately short-running) television show called Alias Smith and Jones. ASAJ starred Pete …continued

• Ray 'n' Bernie and the Million-Dollar Game

  by Byron 'Cowboy' Wolford

  In the 1960s, my brother Ray lived in Lafayette, Louisiana, where he was in the oil well mud business during the boom and made a mint. He threw off more money than a lot of people will ever see. They had a poker game in Lafayette in the back of a bar, …continued

• Bluffing When You Don't Feel Like It

  by Barry Tanenbaum

  Sports are full of bluffing opportunities. You see them in almost every game. A quarterback, bluffing a running play, will fake a handoff to the halfback and then fade back to pass. A pitcher will throw a change-up with the same motion as a fastball, …continued

• Harry and His Pocket Threes

  by Matt Lessinger

  No, this is not part of the Harry Potter series. This is a different Harry, a friend of mine who was playing with me recently in an extremely loose hold'em game (and, no, Harry is not his real name). He dragged a fairly big pot, then a few minutes …continued

• The Second Part of the 'Aggressive' Truism

  by Roy West

  Hi. Come on in. You'll need your bib today. I've made sloppy Joes, with the accent on "sloppy." Dig in. We'll speak of our beloved game while we huddle here in a dark corner of your poker mind. I have a question. It's almost …continued

• Poker in L.A. Ignites With The Bicycle Casino's Legends of Poker and the World Poker Tour!

  by Cover Story

  Summer will heat up sizzlin' hot with this year's tournament of tradition, Legends of Poker. Beginning July 30 and running through Sept. 3, The Bicycle Casino will host its largest and most celebrated tournament extravaganza, bringing together …continued

• Backdoor Flushes, Albert Einstein, and Attitude

  by Greg Dinkin

  While playing hold'em during a recent trip to Black Hawk, Colorado, I wasn't running well. Holding the A K in early position, I raised and got two callers. When the flop came K-Q-5 rainbow, I bet out and got one caller. The 2 came on the turn, …continued

• How to Deal

  by Vince Burgio

  Over the last 15 years I have read scores of articles and books on how to win in poker tournaments. They cover all aspects of playing, and I have even written a few columns broaching the subject. But, I keep waiting to read something on a subject I …continued

• High-Low Blind Defense

  by Michael Cappelletti

  While I was assembling material for my new book Winning Strategies at Omaha High-Low (coming out this fall, Cardoza Publishing), I discovered that a column I had written many years ago had somehow slipped through the cracks and was never published. …continued

• Choices and Considerations<br>(A Bit of Poetry - Part II)

  by Rolf Slotboom

  In my last column, "About Success (A Bit of Poetry - Part I)," I touched upon the subject of being successful in poker. I claimed it is far from easy to be a true winning player over an extended period of time, and that lots of players who …continued

• Online Draw Poker Strategy

  by Michael Wiesenberg

  Draw Poker Resurrected The games I play best are lowball and draw poker. Lowball is dying and draw poker is dead - or so I thought. Draw poker has come back, and not where I would have expected. Draw poker is online, but it's not like any game …continued

• That's My Number and I'm Sticking With It

  by Lou Krieger

  Back in 1997 when Stu Ungar won the World Series of Poker for the last time, everyone was gaga over the fact that attendance for the championship event topped 300. There were, for the first time in the WSOP's storied history, 315 entrants. The …continued

• Bring on the Stewards

  In a Gaming Today column a few issues ago, Oklahoma Johnny Hale recalled the famous quote from Willie Sutton, who enjoyed a long and storied career as a bank robber in the '20s, '30s, and '40s. When asked why he kept on robbing banks, …continued

• When it Isn't All Wine and Roses

  by Jan Fisher

  There are many things to consider when sizing up the opposition; in my last two columns, I merely touched the surface. Now that you are more aware of the things to be looking for when assessing your opponents and their play, did you know that both …continued

• The Poker Boom

  by Bob Ciaffone

  This year looks like it may be the best ever year for poker. Even here in sleepy Saginaw, the Michigan city where I have not played a hand of poker in at least 40 years, the boom is obvious. I can see it in my book sales. The fuel is also obvious; …continued

• Baseball Betting Checklist

  by Chuck Sippl

  With baseball season about to enter its stretch drive, and with the start of the 2003 football season just over the horizon, now is a good time to review some of the basics of baseball betting before the ongoing and exciting distraction of football …continued

• World Poker Tour Hits the Road for the 2003-2004 Season

  by World Poker Tour

  After a successful season on the Travel Channel as its number one television program, the World Poker Tour is ramping up the 2003-2004 tournament schedule. This season promises to be even bigger, with prize money expected to top the $10 million that …continued

• Play a Tournament With Me

  by Rick Young

  Bellagio in Las Vegas has been holding no-limit hold'em tournaments at 5 p.m. every Friday for more than a year now. On a recent Friday, I won a satellite for this tournament and entered it for the first time. When we were down to three players in …continued

• Internet Poker<br>By Gabrielle Barth

  by Book Review

  Internet Poker tells you everything you always wanted to know about online poker and were afraid to ask - and then some. The authors, Lou Krieger and Kathleen Keller Watterson, have put together a step-by-step poker bible that guides the novice who …continued

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