Winning @ Low Stakes Poker

This past weekend I played a little $2/4 Omaha High at a local Las Vegas casino. I sat down to the right of two guys who are both poker dealers. One of the two was in from out of state specifically to deal at the World Series of Poker which starts later this week. I [...]

Playing poker online has several advantages over playing live in a casino. You can play a much wider variety of cash limits, you can get in to a game with virtually no waiting at all 24 hours a day, you can play from the comfort of your couch and, for better or worse, you can [...]

Recently I was playing in a small buy-in 60 person tournament. As we reached the final table, I went on an extremely good run of cards. I knocked out a few players and had a decent chip stack. The tournament was going to pay out 6 spots and it didn’t take long for us to [...]

It doesn’t matter what you are doing, if there is money involved, people are going to try and cheat the system. Poker is no different and comes in many different forms. Early on you had the old “ace up the sleeve”, dealing from the bottom of the deck and collusion between players. But just live [...]

Last night I found a new level of tilt. It was the first time I’ve tilted in quite a while. I have been working diligently to control my tilt factor at the table. Over the past few months I’ve been able to avoid letting a lucky river card for my opponent cause me to spew [...]