Awkward Stack Sizes

No-limit hold'em players are well aware of the strong influence that stack size has on betting. Any problem posed in regard to your decision of how to play a hand needs to specify your stack size and your opponent's. Most bets and raises in no-limit approximate the pot size. Let's...

Wednesday Jun 11, 2008

published 24 days ago in
Card Player Magazine Volume 21, Number 11

South Carolina Update

In the fall of 2005, there was a police raid made on a group of people who were playing poker in an apartment-complex recreation room near Greenville, South Carolina. After several discussions with some of the busted players and their lawyer, I decided to do some legal research, based on the way...

Tuesday May 27, 2008

published 39 days ago

Card Player Media Expands Poker Portal Into Germany and Spain

May 27, 2008 -- Card Player Media, the world's largest poker media organization, today announces the launch of two new European poker portals that join its ever-expanding list of business properties across the world. CardPlayerDeutsch.com (Germany) and CardPlayerEspana.com (Spain) join...

Tuesday May 27, 2008

published 39 days ago

SpadeClub Sponsors Members to Party at the Playboy Mansion

May 27, 2008 -- SpadeClub, a poker community poised to revolutionize the world of poker, recently sponsored two of its Exclusive members to Party at the Playboy Mansion. David Desorcy and Marc Fregoe were the lucky winners of the recent promotion that SpadeClub was hosting. The winners signed up...

Wednesday May 21, 2008

published 45 days ago in
Card Player Magazine Volume 21, Number 10

Playing a Rush

It seems to be a generally accepted poker axiom that when you are "on a rush" (catching a lot of winning hands in a short time period), you are supposed to take advantage of this nice situation by altering your play. Yet, I have seen many players make a huge switch from Dr. Jekyll to...

Wednesday May 14, 2008

published 52 days ago in
Card Player Magazine Volume 21, Number 9

Rulings in Poker

One of the world's most famous quotes is by the great Chinese philosopher Confucius: "Better wise men than wise laws." Of course, he was speaking about the real world, and at a time long before poker appeared on our planet. Yet, the idea behind this quote is certainly capable of...

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