
Learn not to be a poker victim
Play long enough and you’ll get your share of cooler hands. There will be times when the cards play themselves and there’s not a whole

Play long enough and you’ll get your share of cooler hands. There will be times when the cards play themselves and there’s not a whole

By Natasha Barbour It seems every poker table has one person who tries to run over everyone. This person raises, three-bets and four-bets every hand,

I was playing in my regular $10-$20 PLO game at the Horseshoe Casino in Hammond when this hand took place. We were five-handed and everyone

We urge the poker community — all of us — to strongly and publicly condemn poker crimes. Doing anything otherwise is a threat to the future of the game we love.

By Zack Bartholomew, Big Slick Poker Academy Instructor We all know what a continuation bet is. Raise preflop, and then bet the flop. Even amateur

Allen “Chainsaw” Kessler is a 40-something poker pro (he won’t admit his exact age) who has played around the world for nearly a dozen years. He also admits to being a polarizing figure; he said people love him or hate him. Our Big Dave Lemmon had a chance to chat with the Chainsaw. Can you […]

What is aggression? Can it be learned? Is it a personality trait? Is aggression the most successful strategy? Kyle Siler of Cornell University, published Social

By Matthew Gregoire My articles always include a correlation between poker and real life. During 2013, I moved to Miami from Las Vegas. On the

Once upon a time, I played full-time poker for a living. One day I wrote a letter to Pima Community College in Tucson, Ariz., and

By Sean Hansen Hello, Ante Up Nation! Big thanks to the Ante Up crew for giving us the opportunity to contribute to this prestigious, notable,



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