As we go to press, we are just a few days away from the main event. It's been well over a month of back-to-back-to-back huge events, and as everyone expected, some great stories have unfolded. First, Phil Hellmuth, Card Player columnist and co-owner, tied history with his 10th bracelet in the...
World Series of Poker Action Continues to Build Bigger and Better Than Ever By Tim Peters By the time this issue of Card Player goes to press, the main event of the 2006 World Series of Poker will be under way, and the field will certainly be the largest in WSOP history. Most estimates hover...
I came into the 2006 World Series of Poker with high hopes of winning a bracelet, and things looked good early on, as I found myself deep into the $2,500 buy-in shorthanded no-limit hold'em event. Down to the final eight players, I was sitting on close to $400,000 in chips, with only one...
Fred Savage (The Wonder Years) jumped off the stage in New Orleans to dispense high-fives among the audience members. Savage, you see, was playing heads-up poker on CPS (Celebrity Poker Showdown) on Bravo, and felt he needed an energy boost. After losing hand after hand and sporting a hangdog...
We were several hours into our $40-$80 limit hold'em game at The Venetian. A local pro player limped in from in front of me and I looked down to see the A K. I was faced with two options: limping in with the intent of trapping players yet to act and possibly reraising a raiser who could add...
I have often joked that knowing what an opponent has is vastly overrated. Everyone has been in the situation of knowing that he's beat, but calling the last bet anyway. This phenomenon is so well known that it has a name - the crying call. One of the best ways to improve in poker is to read...
The Amazon Room at the Rio All-Suite Hotel and Casino can hold more than 200 poker tables, and, at any given time, houses enough players and dealers to populate a small town. People, days, time, low buy-in tournaments, and anything else not nailed down by profound significance tend to disappear...
A H.O.R.S.E. Is, of course … hold'em (H), Omaha eight-or-better (O), razz (R), seven-card stud (S), and stud eight-or-better (E).
During the 2006 World Series of Poker's inaugural $50,000 H.O.R.S.E. event, Card Player talked to a handful of pros to find out which game they planned...
Andy Bloch's life started in an extraordinary way - a childhood growing up in Orange, Connecticut, followed by an education at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. In 1992, with two degrees in electrical engineering, Bloch started a career in his chosen field with a small company based...
With all the hype surrounding the $50,000 H.O.R.S.E. event at this year's World Series of Poker, it quickly became the most highly anticipated tournament of the season. Every professional poker player was chomping at the bit to compete in the record buy-in five-game event. H.O.R.S.E. was...
