Oaks Card Club has two special Dec. events in NorCal
The Oaks Card Club in Emeryville, Calif., is offering two special tournaments this month. The first event, Dec. 9, is a $200 Omaha/8 tournament at 11 a.m. The second is a $1,500 no-limit hold’em tournament at 1 p.m. on Dec. 16. Oaks also has numerous jackpots in hold’em, Omaha and stud where the payouts reach […]
Absorb the poker room before playing
Poker is so ubiquitous that we often play poker in new venues. Way back in the dark ages, except for pros, most of us would have to go to Las Vegas a couple of times a year to play. Now, there’s usually a poker room within driving distance. Some common scenarios are when you’re on […]
Binh Nguyen wins Fall Coast Main Event
Chinook Winds Casino in Lincoln, Ore., ran its Fall Coast Classic Sept. 16-23 and it was a big success as six of seven guarantees were met or exceeded. Bryan Phillis of Dike, Iowa, (Event 1, $16K), Sande Slutsky of Portland (Event 4, $4K), Dan Barker of Poulsbo, Wash., (Event 6, $4K), Jason Adams of Portland […]
Hurricane Irma brought out best in S. Fla. casinos
September was a rough month for Florida as Hurricane Irma roared up the peninsula during the first weekendof the month. While most of the poker rooms in South Florida were shut down for a few days, most suffered little structural damage and things were mainly back to normal by the next weekend. Not so at […]
Success is packed with fundamentals
I’m resuming teaching my poker class at Pima Community College in the near future. Please take a moment to absorb this testimonial: “Mark Brement has been my coach for more than five years. Today, I make money at poker on a consistent basis. Coach started with fundamentals and then went on to plug a number […]
Trager captures Delaware poker title
Juergen Trager, a plumber by trade, of Dagsboro, Del., won the Delaware Poker Championship at Dover Downs Hotel and Casino. He was one of 281 entries, which swelled the prize pool to $134,178. He started Day 2 in eighth place and increased his stack throughout the day. When the final table reached seven players, there […]
Hard Rock Poker Open draws big talent to S. Fla.
With the closure of the poker room for a huge overhaul of the Seminole Paradise area, there was some concern this year’s Seminole Hard Rock Poker Open would be much smaller than usual. As a result, the facility decided to reduce the guarantee for the main event to $3M instead of $5M, but players still […]
NorCal Classic at Thunder Valley Oct. 16
The sixth annual Ante Up NorCal Classic runs Oct. 16-22 at Thunder Valley Casino Resort in Lincoln, Calif. The NorCal is specifically designed to be a shorter and more accessible series, though still featuring the highlight of any Ante Up Poker Tour series, the main-event champion appearing on the cover of Ante Up. “The NorCal […]
Keen observations from WSOP final
More than 120K players entered World Series of Poker events this summer in Las Vegas. Millions watched the final table of the main event, which I enjoyed because it aired with a 30-minute delay, allowing us to watch the players in “real time” and explore the nuances of tournament play. Many hands played out as […]
Emotions, tilt and other baggage
Emotions and feelings can’t be controlled. We can understand how we think about them; we can understand what arouses a feeling; we can understand the behavior that’s the outcome of the arousal and we can understand provocation. We can learn to regulate behavior that results from arousal whether it is feeling mad, sad, glad or […]