Two weeks ago I joined the Stoxpoker team, and today my first video is available. I’m creating a video series called “Poker Made Simple” which will turn dedicated amateurs into professional-level players. If you are playing small- or medium-stakes online or live, and you are still working toward becoming a solid, consistent winner, the Poker [...]

Lead – it’s not just for childrens’ toys anymore. The Phoenix, AZ-based ABC affiliate ABC15 has discovered that the casino chips most popularly used in Las Vegas (and many other places) contain seemingly eye-popping amounts of lead. They tested the “clay” casino chips used in major Strip casinos like Caesars Palace, The Mirage, Mandalay Bay, [...]

A couple of days ago, a mathematician, former professor, and poker player was shot to death during an armed robbery at a card club in New York City. This shooting, like countless poker game shootings before it, is a direct result of the madness of illegal poker. For the past several years, New York’s Finest [...]

I’ve always thought a true starting hand chart for no-limit was out of reach. Preflop play in no-limit cash games is very malleable; a wide array of different styles and strategies can work well, and your opponents’ stack sizes and styles matter a lot also. But then I figured, what the heck. Let’s try to [...]