Yesterday I was at the coffee shop near my apartment where I usually write, and I fired up my site to write a new post about checkraise bluffing or something like that. But instead of my usual friendly green interface, I got a white screen with two lines of text: Your page is blocked due [...]

I don’t know how I missed it all this time, but Short-Stacked Shamus has been hard at work on his excellent poker-themed blog Hard-Boiled Poker for nearly two years now. I hit his archives hard over the past few days, and now I think I’m all caught up. Definitely check out Shamus’s well-written and thoughtful [...]

Check out all the StoxPoker demo videos at YouTube. Currently over 100 demos are available, which should give you an excellent idea of what to expect when you sign up at StoxPoker. Check out this excellent video of Bryce Paradis playing heads-up $200-$400 limit hold’em. Bryce is a one-of-a-kind wonder. His videos are insane. They [...]

My last few articles have been about the advantages that short stacks have over deep stacks in no-limit and about how to harness those advantages to beat wild games. I want to step back now and explore what I mean by the advantage a short stack gives you. A few issues back, I said that [...]