Here are some quick thoughts for this warm Spring morning.

There’s a lot of money to be made on the river in the $1-$2 6-max no-limit games on Full Tilt. A lot of the regulars miss value bets a lot, and they fold too many hands to overbet shoves even if …Login/Register for more.

The squeeze play has a bit of a daring and clever feel to it. It’s a bluff (or semi-bluff) perpetrated against not one, but several opponents. Someone bets, one or more players call, then you raise. When it works, you feel like a champ, and you rake a big pot. The Squeeze Play|428|3.95|USD|| [...]

According to an IRS Bulletin, beginning March 4, 2008 the IRS will require tournament directors to withhold taxes from poker tournament winners who win in excess of $5,000. It requires this withholding at the third-lowest tax rate which is …Login/Register for more.

Cheating, angle shooting, and incompetence now and forever will be part of poker. (Don’t worry, this article won’t be a total downer. ) Recently some of my thoughts on the subjects have crystallized thanks to Terrance Chan’s saga at the Playboy Mansion. I don’t intend to “pile on,” Poker Cheating, Angle Shooting, and [...]

“Those who can’t, teach.” As someone who used to play poker fulltime and now spends more time teaching it, I hear that a lot. Frankly, I think it’s bullshit. People ask me frequently why I spend more time writing about poker now than I do playing it. It’s because teaching …Login/Register for more.

uDevil asks,
I’m not much of a NL player, but I’ve been watching some of the stoxpoker NL videos. He likes to make a play he calls a “squeeze”. Harrington discussed this play in his books: he will sometimes Q&A #27: The Squeeze Play|96|3.95|USD|| raise with a marginal hand after one or more people [...]

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|| [...]