Poker

Poker – like stocks – is a game of people. As a result, the right strategy is not something absolute but dependent on the other players’ strategies. In other words, it’s a problem for Game Theory. If players are bad,…

In this blog, I’m going to review the four major hands from my last $2/$3/$5 poker session at Casino M8TRIX in San Jose, CA. On the first hand I picked up two black Aces in early position and raised to…

In “The Tao Of Poker” I said that most of your money will be made by having the best hand when all the chips go in. What I omitted to say is that a corollary of doing so is getting…

The most interesting poker hand ever took place in a high stakes cash game involving Daniel Negreanu, Phil Ivey and Patrick Antonius last year. The blinds were $500/$1000 and Antonius raised to $2500 from early position with 55. Another player…

I was playing $2/$3/$5 at Casino M8TRIX last night. There was a live $10, two callers and the cutoff raised to $55. I called with AQ in the small blind and one of the callers called as well. There was…

I’ve been playing poker for nearly 20 years and I can tell you that winning poker is mostly about solid fundamentals and self discipline. What are solid fundamentals? It starts with hand selection. You should be folding most of your…

I was watching the live stream of Day 5 of the WPT World Championships today and the most interesting hand took place between Bryce Yockey and Daniel Negreanu. I was mainly watching because Negreanu is my favorite player and arguably…

The best introduction to thinking about the Vegas poker ecosystem is the scene from Rounders where all the sharks from New York City are playing together in Atlantic City when a couple of fish sit down. From that point on…