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 Gardena, That '70s Poker Capital
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James McManus
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By the mid-1970s, poker had two distinct capitals. The Texas road gamblers'
no-limit hold'em sanctuary in Downtown Las Vegas was active mainly during the
World Series in April, while Gardena, a working-class suburb of Los
Angeles, had hundreds of five-card draw players in action every day except
Christmas. While poker remained for the most part an underground national
pastime, its legal status in these far-western towns was a double blast of
oxygen for high-stakes professionals and recreational players alike.
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Colorado Voters to Decide if Poker Betting Limits Should Increases
Casinos and Community College Want Limits to Raise from $5 to $100
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CARDPLAYER.COM
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A referendum will appear on Colorado ballots that, if passed, would increase
maximum betting limits in the state's cardrooms and casinos from $5 to $100.
Currently, poker players playing in Colorado poker rooms have to abide by the
extremely restrictive maximum betting limits that have applied to all casino
games there for the last 17 years.
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Can a No-Limit Hold'em Game Be Too Loose?
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ED MILLER
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No! That is the mother of all poker questions. I've probably seen a variant of
this question asked almost a thousand times. Can a game be too good, or too
loose, or too soft? Do you actually want some good players in your game? Can a
bunch of schooling fish turn even the best player into a sucker?
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Common No-Limit Hold'em Errors Made by Limit
Players - Part I
Differences in the games lead to mistakes
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BARRY TANENBAUM
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Many former limit hold'em players, either enchanted by the excitement of
no-limit hold'em cash games or living in places where no-limit hold'em has
become the game of choice, are spending more time at the no-limit tables. Some
of them make errors because their limit backgrounds prevent them from seeing the
differences of playing in the two games. This and subsequent columns will
explore some of their more common errors.
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Targeting Players
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ERIC "RIZEN"
LYNCH
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One phrase you often hear people say is “don’t play cards, play poker." To
people who don't play poker seriously, this doesn't always make sense. To many
people it’s one and the same. One of the main differences is fi guring out
people’s playing tendencies and then targeting the players who are most likely
to give you chips. Often this means targeting the weakest players, but not
always. Sometimes it means targeting someone who may be a good player but has a
very awkward chip stack at this blind level, or maybe someone who has a small
leak in their game that you’re in good position to exploit.
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Semi-Bluffing
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ANDY BLOCH
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The semi-bluff is one of the most powerful weapons in any poker player's arsenal. If there's a decent chance you can steal a pot by semi-bluffing, you
should usually take it. But, as with any play you make at the table, the
semi-bluff is always most effective when you use it at the correct time in the
correct situation. Semi-bluff too much and your opponents will know when you’re
on the draw; semi-bluff too little and your opponents will know to fold whenever
you bet. The key to semi-bluffi ng is to always mix things up and never become
too predictable with your betting patterns.
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Turn Image into Profit
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Mike Caro
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The money in poker comes mostly from the way you handle people, read them, manipulate them, and relate to them. As the old adage goes, “Poker is not a game of cards played by people, but a game of people played with cards."
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Straight Draws
How you can use the stealthy qualities of a
open-ended straight draw to your advantage
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Karl Mahrenholz
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In the last piece I presented you with the following situation: you are in the
middle stages of a multi-table tournament with blinds at 500/1,000. You have an
average stack of 35k in the small blind and pick up K♥-Q♠.
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Deal Me In!
Common sense and wisdom to help
jumpstart your poker game
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Kevin Blackwood
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Twenty years ago, people would have thought you were crazy if you
told them poker would someday be televised on ESPN and NBC. Yet that day has
long since arrived, and poker has fast become an American institution—if not
quite apple pie and baseball, than certainly donuts and bowling.
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Tells of the Mouth
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Joe Navarro
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For the next two months, I have purposely focused on one specifi c area of the
body. The mouth and the tells that are revealed there are probably the most
accurate of all the body tells, especially the face. I know what you are
thinking after months of reading this column: “Joe, you’ve said the feet are the
most reliable place to pick up tells.” That is true, but when looking at the
face, the mouth wins the tells contest hands down. It is probably the best place
to decipher the feelings, thoughts, and intentions of another player. When it
comes to poker, the mouth is one place we should scrutinize carefully.
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Maximize Your Tournament Return on Investment By Doing Your Homework
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Bonnie
Demos
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Money management is a key factor in playing winning poker, a basic rule that
most players live by. Pot odds, implied odds, equity, fold equity, and expected
value have become household words and many players are quite adept at the mental
gymnastics of calculating complex mathematical equations.
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Keeping It Simple Is Stupid
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David Williams
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With NBC’s national heads-up poker championship around the corner, I thought
it might be a good idea to start thinking about heads-up play, since it is so
different than nine- or 10-handed, or even short-handed poker.
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