Texas Holdem Poker

Keep your friends close and your enemies closer” so said Don Corleone, but should he have been talking about the Poker table, rather than the 1950s organised crime scene of New York.

In my last blog, I touched on the importance of manipulating your table in a manner that makes the poker game profitable for you. In today’s game the importance of table image can not be over looked. Long gone are the day’s of six years ago, when you could sit at a table as still [...]

Is there a great divide amongst poker players today? Are we subconsciously or consciously dividing our opponents into two distinct categories? This is the debate that took place last night through a war of words and chips. On a whim I decided to head to the Seminole Indian Casino last night. As I signed up [...]

Men need to be careful when playing women. Before some of you give me the “Yeah, we know this” look, let me convey a story. I was playing in a Pot Limit holdem tournament in 2007 in Las Vegas. There was a very well endowed middle aged woman that a lot of men liked to [...]

If you are having success playing online poker there is no doubt you will eventually want to give a live action game a try. Beyond the obvious there are a lot of subtle differences between the games. You need to look beyond just betting patterns and look for physical tells your opponents are giving you. [...]