This isn’t about splashing the pot or acting in turn… what I’m talking about here is mature civility at the poker table.
In live play, people are usually more polite for a couple of reasons.
1. Being rude to someone’s face takes a lot more “balls” than flipping someone off while driving or something else with some […]

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A year ago, I made the switch from Windows based laptop to Mac laptop because of Final Cut Pro and my job as a film maker. Only then did I realize that most of the poker sites I was playing at didn’t support Mac. Slowly that’s changing because finally, PokerStars has recognized that […]

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Posting from my favorite bar tonight (I also DJ here)… drowning my sorrows after I played Bodog’s 5k tournament and did fairly well except for a series of bad beats that left me reeling on a short stack with $300/$150 blinds… forcing me to play an all-in or nothing game… knowing that any significant raise […]

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For this quiz, you’ll be playing as my opponent. This comes from a micro-limit game that I played yesterday on Bodog.
You’re on the button playing a .05/.10 cash game. You don’t have a lot of information on the other players… you’ve seen the UTG+1 (me) has only played 1 hand in the […]

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After a long hiatus from playing online, I’ve started up again last night. Doing okay so far… I think fold to pressure too often online. But, I guess I’ll have to try to fix that hole in my game as I go later.
Recently, I drove to Austin to visit friends. I […]

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Apparently, the new answer is, surprisingly, YES!
About two weeks ago, a huge story broke involving Absolute Poker and apparently confirmation that the winner of a $1000 tournament was being fed the hand information of EVERYONE at the table by a super user account!
I’ve looked at the hand history files myself… and it just makes you […]

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Just busted out of the WBCOP in 250th place out of 1337 total players. Not a bad showing, but certainly not as good as I hoped for. Anyway… I saved some of the more interesting hands from that tournament and I have quiz of one of them. This quiz is about getting maximum value out of a premium hand.

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