Al Spath
The art of bluffing and semibluffing
A bluff is a bet of some nature when you have little or no chance of winning the pot if someone calls. A semibluff is
Ante Up Magazine
March 31, 2016
A bluff is a bet of some nature when you have little or no chance of winning the pot if someone calls. A semibluff is
I spent some time teaching the game to some new players recently and there are a few universal challenges they face that I want to
Recently, several emails have come from students with queries on how best to play pocket pairs. Let’s explore a few rules of thumb to keep us out of trouble. My quick advice is to recognize we’re playing to hit a set, hence the term “set-mining,” and to be extremely aware of the effective stacks in […]
Anger is often seen as the primary reason for going on tilt. There obviously are others: losing, embarrassment, stupidity. However, anger is the one I
Moving forward from last year’s state law allowing operation of land-based casinos, Tropicana Evansville became the first to get Indiana approval to move off the
Starting this month at Maryland Live, most weekly tournament guarantees will double, meaning there will be more than $600K in guarantees per week. The poker
The World Series of Poker Circuit makes its annual stop at Harrah’s Cherokee in North Carolina on April 14-25 and there are some unique offerings
The Choctaw Poker Series in Durant, Okla., runs April 7-24 and is a diversified series with $565-$1,080 buy-ins with $50K-$100K guarantees. Look for games such
After six days of no-limit hold’em, Dietrich Fast emerged atop a field of 515 of the world’s best players to take home his first WPT
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