Backing Up

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 was told by someone. "Most of the time when...

Tuesday May 03, 2005

published 1172 days ago in
Card Player Magazine Volume 18, Number 8

Book Reviews

The burgeoning interest in poker has yielded scads of new books on the subject. The question, "I'm a beginning player; which book should I read?" has been asked more times than I can remember. Although each player has his or her favorite book, my advice is to read them all. Picking...

Tuesday Apr 19, 2005

published 1186 days ago in
Card Player Magazine Volume 18, Number 7

We Have Met the Enemy, and He is Us - Part II

At the poker table, we are usually our own worst enemy, and we've been called on it by Pogo the Possum, that well-known philosopher and denizen of the Okefenokee Swamp, the primary character of the late Walt Kelly's classic comic strip that bore his name. In the first installment of this...

Tuesday Apr 05, 2005

published 1200 days ago in
Card Player Magazine Volume 18, Number 6

We Have Met the Enemy, and He is Us - Part I

"We have met the enemy, and he is us," is a 35-year-old catch phrase injected by cartoonist Walt Kelly into the mouth of Pogo, a philosophical possum who lives in the Okefenokee Swamp and is the feature character of the comic strip that bore his name. People have so much reverence for...

Tuesday Mar 22, 2005

published 1214 days ago in
Card Player Magazine Volume 18, Number 5

A Piece of Each Other

A few months ago, Frank Palumbo, a player from Wantagh, New York, sent an e-mail to Card Player columnists Roy Cooke, Bob Ciaffone, Mike Cappelletti, and me. He is concerned with proposition betting among tournament players, along with the commonly accepted practice of tournament players taking a...

Friday Feb 25, 2005

published 1239 days ago in
Card Player Magazine Volume 18, Number 4

Being Beyond Pain

Some years back, Mike Caro wrote about a particularly unhappy state that many poker players have found themselves in, one in which they are "beyond pain." When you get there, nothing matters anymore. You've given up, are utterly helpless, and have been beaten and beaten for so long...

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