If you haven’t already, read Going Pro: What You Should Know Before Playing Poker For a Living – Part 1 of 3 where we learned to estimate our monthly expenses, or nut, and we learned to estimate our monthly earn. Growing Your Wealth Your monthly nut is $2,300. So you have Going Pro: What You [...]

Michael Finnegan asks, Ed Miller, I really enjoy reading your books. They have helped me a lot with my home game. I want to test the waters and try a local casino. I live in the Chicago area. I hope to visit Las Vegas in the spring. How can I find Q&A #6: Playing in [...]

A fair amount has been written on the topic of going pro, but a lot of it is only moderately useful. Most of the material written more than three years ago is almost entirely obsolete. And a lot of the new material is little more than a warning or plea to Going Pro: What You [...]

jamleeco asks, Specifically, there have been 3 limpers, the CO raises to 7x the big blind, and you are on the button with 67s. NLTP suggests calling a raiser with this hand , but tighten up if the raise is more than 4x the BB. However, Q&A #5: No Limit Absolute versus Relative Position|39|3.95|USD|| this [...]

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Five years ago, donkeys didn’t play poker. Times have changed. Now they’re everywhere. Buy in to a $200NL 6-max game. Donkeys. Sit down for a relaxing Turbo Steps Ultra Sit-N-Go Super Mega satellite before bedtime. Donkeys. Thought no one still plays stud? Donkeys do. They’re even at the World Series. There Donkeys Always Draw|37|3.95|USD|| you [...]

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UPDATE 12/10/06: I reread this article, and I think it’s a bit misleading. I recommend you read my new article Bots, Cheating, and Online Poker as well as this one to get the whole story. In short, I think that, in 2006, good players shouldn’t fear bots in small Q&A #4: Thoughts about Odds Calculators|33|3.95|USD|| [...]

Recently, I’ve been playing the ten-handed, $50 buy-in with $0.25-$0.50 blinds, no limit game at Party Poker (the $50NL) in preparation for my next book project: Small Stakes No Limit Hold ‘em by Matt Flynn, Sunny Mehta, and me. I typically play live no limit up to $5-$10 blind in the Thoughts on the Party [...]

I’ve always thought my co-author for the tenatively titled Small Stakes No Limit Hold ‘em, Sunny Mehta, was a human interest story waiting to happen. (BTW, SSNLHE is making excellent progress, and it should be out by early 2007. I’ll write plenty more about it in the days and weeks …Login/Register for more.