• Win a Trip to the Super Bowl

  by Barry Shulman

  Hopefully by now you have visited the new CardPlayer.com. There, you will find even more content than ever, fewer ads, much faster loading - and still no charge for the use of any of its features. To kick off our new site, we have designed a football …continued

• Chris Ferguson, 2000 World Champion

  by Linda Johnson

  Chris Ferguson is one of my favorite poker celebrities, so I was pleased to spend some time chatting with him at Foxwoods Resort Casino during this year's World Poker Finals. I had previously seen Chris dance and had heard that he was a champion …continued

• Sound Voices on the Wild, Wild Net

  by Roy Cooke

  Being affiliated with PlanetPoker.com, an Internet poker room, has really opened my eyes to the potential for both good and bad on the Internet. I love the net and spend a lot of time there, although it is indeed a wild, wild place in many ways. I …continued

• I Enjoy Having Played

  by Tom McEvoy

  "Do you enjoy writing?" someone once asked a famous author. "No," he answered, "I enjoy having written." In other words, the process can be a drag, but getting the job done is worth the sacrifice. I am finding this to be …continued

• The World Poker Tour in Paris

  by Mike Sexton

  The second season of the World Poker Tour started in Paris recently. The event was the four-day 10,000 Euro ($11,500) buy-in no-limit hold'em championship at the Aviation Club de France. The field consisted of 96 tough international players and …continued

• Luck in the Big Game, and Beyond

  by Phil Hellmuth

  This Hand of the Week was written by Ted Forrest, who is widely considered to be one of the best poker players in the world. This hand takes place in Larry Flynt's $1,500-$3,000 seven-card stud game at the Hustler Casino in Gardena, California. …continued

• World Poker Tour in Paris - Part I

  by Daniel Negreanu

  After having a disappointing first season on the World Poker Tour, I was determined to put forth a better effort in the second season. In 11 attempts during season one, I failed to cash in any of them. So, when I heard the Aviation Club in Paris would …continued

• Too Warm, Too Cold, and Just Right

  by Andrew N.S. Glazer

  I recently watched a friend play some very high-stakes Internet poker: He was playing two games at once, one a $100-$200 hold'em game and the other an $80-$160 Omaha eight-or-better game. So much for my early thoughts/predictions that Internet …continued

• California Here I Come

  by Michael Cappelletti

  Living on the East Coast, I get to California only occasionally - usually to play in big bridge tournaments. Several years ago, I took four days off from a bridge tournament to compete in the last four days of an eight-day Casino San Pablo poker …continued

• We're So Glad You Could Attend

  by Lee H. Jones

  Welcome back, my friend, to the show that never ends. We're so glad you could attend; step inside, step inside. Indeed, and what a show it is. I mean, are any of you as amazed by all of this as I? "All of this" is, of course, the …continued

• 24 Vices in Pot-Limit Omaha

  by Rolf Slotboom

  In my last column, I discussed 24 vices in limit hold'em, and how much your overall results will be harmed if you are lacking in any one of the 24 areas discussed. As I see it, some of the main vices in limit hold'em are a lack of discipline …continued

• It's Tough to Quit When You're Losing, but Sometimes You Must

  by Roy West

  Hi. Come on in. I picked up an Italian Supreme calzone stuffed with mushrooms, green peppers, onions, tomatoes, ham, salami, sauce, and cheese. Here's your bib. Eat heartily while we explore winning thoughts involving our beloved game of poker. …continued

• Lucky Chances Casino: Growing With the Times

  by Cover Story

  When asked what's the toughest decision he has had to make on the poker floor since he has been working at Lucky Chances, Dennis Callahan, swing shift floor supervisor, replied without hesitation and perhaps with tongue in cheek: "Barry …continued

• This Site is Rigged!

  by Michael Wiesenberg

  "This site is rigged!" That's what BigLoser angrily typed in the chat box. I had just drawn three cards in the five-card draw game to the A K to beat his pat 10-high straight. It certainly is true that making a flush on a three-card draw …continued

• Makin' Good Money With Good Eye

  by Byron 'Cowboy' Wolford

  "Seventy-five percent of any roper is his horse," Will Rogers once said. I got my first good horse in the early '50s and named him Good Eye, because he was blind in one eye. As soon as my daddy had trained him for me, I drove Good Eye …continued

• Book Review: Katy Lederer's Poker Face

  by Greg Dinkin

  If you want to learn how to improve your poker face, don't read Poker Face. If you want to figure out how the author's brother, Howard Lederer, won two tournaments in the World Poker Tour's inaugural season, don't read Poker Face. If …continued

• Should You Be a Fox or a Hedgehog?

  by Steve Zolotow

  As you read the title of this column, you probably thought the poor Bald Eagle had lost his senses along with his hair. The Greek poet Archilochus, in the seventh century B.C. distinguished between the fox and the hedgehog. He said, "The fox …continued

• Was Willie Wild or Wise?

  by Matt Lessinger

  In a recent no-limit hold'em game, an interesting hand came up. I'm still not sure what I think of one player's decision. It has intelligence, recklessness, and gamble all wrapped together. The blinds are $2-$4. Everyone has $300 or more …continued

• Barry Calls a Bluff

  by Barry Tanenbaum

  In second grade, I tried my first bluff. It was a dismal failure. I was late for school (again) because I liked to walk very slowly and contemplate the bushes, trees, concrete, and houses on my four-block walk to school. I was instructed to bring a …continued

• Unbalanced Road Teams in College Football

  by Chuck Sippl

  With the new college football season beginning to unfold, now is a good time for a couple of the most frequent warnings I give to my friends who are eager to expand their pigskin bankrolls as quickly as possible. First, be careful about …continued

• Pot Odds and All That Jazz

  by Lou Krieger

  No matter how you slice it, poker always revolves around this primary relationship: Does the pot offer enough money - or promise to offer enough money once all the betting rounds are concluded - to overcome the odds against making your hand? You …continued

• Don't Break the Bubble

  by Max Shapiro

  "On the bubble" is a poker term that means finishing one out of the money in a tournament. It is one of poker's most lugubrious expressions, ranking right up there with "I got my aces cracked," and "they moved me from the …continued

• Some Personal Advice

  by Bob Ciaffone

  It is rare for a Card Player columnist to write about anything but poker in his column. What follows here is an excursion into a bit of my personal life (likely for the last time in my column). The purpose is mainly to pass on some personal experience …continued

• So Much to Learn, So Little Time

  by Jan Fisher

  By now, all of those people who attended the World Poker Players Conference (WPPC) have surely improved their games and are winning consistently, right? Well, hopefully they have studied their notes from the conference and learned something, and have …continued

• Vince Van Patten: World Poker Tour Commentator
  By Linda Johnson

  by World Poker Tour

  Editor's note: This is the second of a series of three exclusive interviews that Linda Johnson has done with World Poker Tour personalities. In the next issue, look for an exclusive interview with World Poker Tour commentator Mike Sexton. As the …continued

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