April 2008
A Common Mistake When Drawing
Matthew Hilger
Card Player Magazine
May 2007
The most common mistake of beginning players is playing too
loosely. They play too many starting hands, continue too often with weak pairs
on the flop, and chase unprofitable draws.
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Building a Pot
Eric Lynch
Card Player Magazine
May 2007
One of the most overlooked (and most important) skills in
poker is getting paid when you flop a huge hand. A few years ago, it used to be
that whenever you hit a big hand, you could just slow-play it and almost always
expect to get paid, but today's player is sophisticated enough that that just
doesn't work anymore.
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Poker and Politics - Part I
Roy Cooke
Card Player Magazine
May 9, 2007
My writing partner John Bond says he's a moderate, but the
country has moved so far right that he looks liberal. He describes himself as a
liberal-ish libertarian. From where I sit, he's a flaming left-winger, and
hasn't liked any Republican since Teddy Roosevelt.
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Poker and Politics - Part II
Roy Cooke
Card Player Magazine
May
2007
Tight-aggressive play gets the money. Pick your spots, and
push them relentlessly. Don't fritter away your stack on long shots. It's true
of poker, and it's true of politics. In both games, if you're on the rail, you
can't win. You have to be in the game. In the last issue I wrote generally
about politics and poker. I noted that we need to identify our adversaries,
that we must overcome political and personal inertia, and that there is a long
history of politicians who play or played poker, which can aid us.
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Pattern And Perceptions
Vanessa Rousso
All-In Magazine
May 2007
The goal in any game of information, and especially in poker,
is to maximize the knowledge that you can acquire about your opponents while
limiting the information about you that they might obtain. The ultimate
objective is to create an imbalance of information by gathering
significantly more information regarding your opponents than they are able to
obtain about you. Professional players are able to profit through the
exploitation of these imbalances—this is the “edge” that successful players
often refer to.
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California Casinos Find Gold
Lena Katz
All-In Magazine
May 2007
A new poker room here…new slot machines there…a casino revamp
down in the Valley… Spurred by poker’s success and online gaming’s rise, Indian
casinos all over the country are reinventing themselves in
hundred-milion-dollar style, and Southern California’s
casinos are leading the charge. Where once there were a handful of sprung
structures and bingo parlors. Las
Vegas West is set to emerge like a glossy gem from the
inland mountains. The epicenter of the action is the area around greater Palm Springs and San
Diego, where half a dozen properties are undergoing
9-figure enhancements.
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