October 2007

Another Celebrity Bad Beat
Daniel Cox
PokerHost.Com Newsletter
March 2006
I have been playing poker for over 40 years now, since my father taught me five card stud at age eight. He got tired of me beating him at chess, so he chose a game where he felt he had a better chance of beating me.

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Bluffing
Mike Sexton
Card Player Europe Magazine
March 2006
One of the greatest things about poker is that you don’t have to have the best hand to win the pot. You can win pots by betting and you don’t get called, and it doesn’t matter what you have. Bluffing is an attempt to win the pot without having the best hand.

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A Poker Detective's Toolkit:
Learn to tell the difference between poker truth and poker fiction
Howard Lederer
Bluff Magazine
November 2004
Poker is an endlessly fascinating game. I have never played the same hand twice and I never will. But poker would not be nearly as interesting to play if it were only a numbers game. What keeps me coming back time after time is the psychology of the game. Taking a good read is one of the most satisfying things you can do at a poker table. And the thrill you get from catching a big bluff will stay with you long after the cards and chips have been put away for the night.

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Best starting hands in No Limit Hold'em
Trey Luerssen
Fox Sports
Feb 2006
The biggest mistake beginning poker players make is with their starting hands. In fact, most poker "fish" are surprised to find out that there is actually a system for picking starting hands. They will play almost any face card, no matter what the second card is.

Basic Poker Strategy
Kathy Watterson and Lou Krieger
Card Player Magazine
May 2003
Poker is a game of money played with cards; it’s not a game of pots played with money. It’s also a game of skill, not of chance, and players who go at it solely by the seat of their pants stand no more chance of winning at poker than they do at roulette. Without a solid basis for making decisions about whether to check, bet, call, fold, raise, or reraise, you might just as well play the lottery. Winning poker players understand strategic concepts, and they apply them with precision and discipline. Let’s look at some.

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Secrets of the Card Cheat
Jack Wise
Bluff Magazine
January 2005
WARNING: The following article is designed to enable the honest player to spot the devious cheat in his midst. Anyone caught using this advice for immoral purposes will have their thumbs personally sawn off by the Bluff staff.

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Not Smart Enough
Roy Cooke
Card Player Magazine
March 2006
I have oftentimes written that poker is a situational game, as much if not more dependent upon the styles of your opponents as it is on your holdings. Being able to accurately read those situations and conceptually adjust your strategy to them is a large part of what separates the great performers from the also-rans. It is the fine-art side of poker that is hard to acquire.

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The Home Poker Party for ALL Your friends!
Texas Hold’em – Tournament Style
Bluff Magazine
November 2004
Tournament-style Texas Hold’em rocks! It’s so much different than the boring “dealer’s choice” games of yesteryear! I have been to so many home game tournaments since the phenomenon of Texas Hold’em erupted, and there is such a drastic difference between the tournaments that are run well and the ones that aren’t. There are several fundamentals that need to be adopted to enhance tournament play. I will discuss the most crucial.

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Sunglasses and Poker? I Say, Balderdash!
Roy West
Card Player Magazine
March 2006
Among the most foolish of things I see at the poker tables today are players wearing sunglasses — even at the lowest limits. That looks real cool on the professionals on television, but check with your ophthalmologist about what wearing sunglasses indoors is doing to your eyes. You won’t like it. (And if you think you’re impressing your opponents — well, from the table talk I hear, they just think you look foolish.)

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Shades Of Gray
John Vorhaus
All In Magazine
April 2006
IN THE HISTORY OF HUMANITY, there have been some great debates: flat earth versus round; PC versus Mac; toilet roll front or toilet roll back. Lately, the poker world has been wracked by its own debate of cataclysmic significance, one that—like the American Civil War—threatens to turn brother against brother and father against son. The subject of this burning controversy? Sunglasses.

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Temper Your Expectations
Jason Bonace
Card Player College Magazine
March 2006
I often wonder why people play poker. Many would say that, at its core, the game is played to fulfill some sort of competitive void. A void that, in many of us who are former high school athletes, and while good, were not great enough to play at the collegiate or professional level. Others would say that poker is a game played to appease one’s ego. The thrill that is achieved by outfoxing your opponent has few rivals. 

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