Going back through the last questions thread, I noticed a couple of quick questions from Roaming. I figured I’d rapid fire them today. As a quick note to my readers, if you submit a hand derived from an online hand history, please use a hand converter such as this Q&A #58: Limit Hold 'em Two-fer [...]

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NotedPokerAuthority has been a poker advice column for over four months now. It doesn’t seem that long to me, but if I look back at all the posts so far, it makes sense. From now on, I’ll periodically dig through the archives and present a few old posts you …Login/Register for more.

I’m back from my Mardi Gras vacation. If you haven’t done so since the hurricane, I urge you to take a trip to New Orleans. The great stuff about New Orleans – food, music, and atmosphere – is all still great. But much of the city is still dark and Q&A #57: Strong Draw in [...]

I’m still on my Mardi Gras vacation, so I’ll do a quickie today. Sets in limit hold ‘em are strong hands, and you should generally play them strongly even if a scare card or two comes. Here’s Sean’s question, Ed, this might be worth some discussion on your blog … $1/$2 …Login/Register for more.

I just wanted to let you know that I’m in this month’s (March 2007) Maxim Magazine. It’s a short one-page article on p. 72 called “Small Stakes Assassin.” They took some serious artistic license with my poker advice, but my picture looks freaking awesome. Anyway, I got a kick out …Login/Register for more.

One of the first things we learn to do as we get better at poker is to fold. “If you don’t have a good hand, fold.” “You can’t be a winner if you don’t know how to fold a winner.” All true. The first thing you should learn is how Q&A #55: Aggression in Shorthanded [...]

A couple of days ago I posted a hand from jamleeco. This is a tricky hand, there’s no doubt about it. I think there’s several layers to it, and I think you can play it many different ways depending on how your opponents tend to play. Here’s the hand Hand Discussion #3: My Thoughts|177|3.95|USD|| again: [...]

I’ve been something of a broken record in the past about the fact(s) that: Gambling income is taxable in the US Lots of people aren’t declaring poker income on their returns The transactions are all logged, so there’s no plausible deniability if they look into your stuff They will start …Login/Register for more.

Here’s another hand to discuss, courtesy of jamleeco. He’s playing medium-deep stacked, and he doesn’t know what to do with bottom two on the flop in an unraised pot. As an update, I’m working on getting the forum software integrated, but it’ll probably be another couple of weeks before I …Login/Register for more.