Category: Poker

Poker

Time to get your poker tax records together

Well, it’s here again: tax season. The two “dirty words” for any CPA to hear. It’s especially challenging for a CPA that specializes in poker players, most of which played on the Internet. You can only imagine the fun I experienced on April 15, fielding frantic calls from hundreds (yes, hundreds) of poker players in […]

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Poker

Watch out for the black swan hands

During a recent $2-$5 game at the Orange Park Poker Room I had an epiphany: Uncertainty in poker can destroy you. There’s a great deal of uncertainty in poker. The observant player avoids situations in which they create more uncertainty for themselves; the observant players destroy themselves less. Poker is full of unusual events, or […]

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Poker

Avoid making zilch at the poker table

Over the years I’ve noticed an amazing transformation in all areas of our wonderful game of hold’em. I’m not talking about the television boom or the Internet boom. I’m referring to the number of good players that permeate the game with their ability to make money on a consistent basis. There’s one area in the […]

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