When playing a speculative hand preflop, understand why you’ve decided to take a flop. There are three critical reasons you can justify this. GETTING THE
Why does someone play poker? Fun, money, competition, adrenalin rush, better than bingo. For some, poker seems to be the last arena for their completive
The Pittsburgh Poker Open series ran Nov. 9-22 at Rivers Casino as Jeremy Halaska of Cleveland won the $1,650 main event for $49,700 with 122
Travis Hartshorn took down another tournament after dominating Parx’s Big Stax 300 in October, claiming the $2,700 main-event trophy at the Borgata Fall Poker Open
The bestbet poker room in Jacksonville hosts the Mid-States Poker Tour from Jan. 19-29, including the $1,100 buy-in, $200K guarantee main event, which has Days
The Commerce Casino’s L.A. Poker Open always is one of the premiere events on the West Coast, and now Scott Stewart of Lakewood has a
The Michigan State Poker Championship at FireKeepers Casino in Battle Creek, Mich., was once again a record-breaking affair. At the final table, all eyes were
The inaugural PokerStars Festival debuted in Atlantic City at the Resorts Casino Hotel on Oct. 29-Nov. 6 and Jason Acosta won the $1,100 main event,
There are quite a few books that are a must-read for poker players and Malcolm Gladwell’s second book, Blink: The Power of Thinking Without Thinking, is one of them. I actually think it’s as important as game theory has been. Gladwell presents, in easy to understand, a condensation of behavioral science’s discussion of rapid-fire mental […]
The string of twenty-somethings winning the World Series of Poker Main Event is over as 39-year-old Las Vegas resident and Saigon, Vietnam, native Qui “TommyGun”
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