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If you are not familiar with craps, it is a game played with dice, and the important thing to know about it is that you cannot win at it unless you figure out some way to control how you throw the dice…ie, you cheat. You CANNOT win by playing by the rules. It […]

Last Saturday was a little unusual for me–I played both tournament AND cash poker in the same day! (Besides unusual, this was also awesome–all poker all the time!) I can’t blame my mediocre showing in the tournament (37th out of 120) on an inability to switch playing styles quickly enough; the tournament actually […]

I played in two tournaments this week and made the final table in both–ninth in the first tournament and third in the second. (Unfortunately they both only paid to third place, so I only “won” anything the second time, and what I “won” was a gift certificate to the place that hosted the tournament–wheee!) […]

I played in two cash games this past weekend, one on Friday night and one on Saturday night. At the game Friday night, not only did I lose the entirety of my original buy-in, I bought in AGAIN, lost all that and then bought in a THIRD TIME (I managed to break even on […]

A small sampling of what’s often heard ’round the poker table:
“I’m all in!”
“Is that supposed to be, some kinda position raise or something?”
“What you got under there, man? Big slick? Cowboys?”
“Probably ducks.”
“Oooh, dead man’s hand. Against…what is that shit?”
“This is my favorite hand!”
“Why am I not surprised that a flat tire’s your […]

It sounds like some poker posting is on the table! (pun so not intended)
As I think we’re all coming into this with wildly divergent levels of familiarity and interest, I am going to try to please all the people all the time by writing a thorough yet succinct post that masterfully combines the basics […]

I play poker. More specifically, I play (by preference) no-limit Texas Hold ‘Em. I have also been known to play limit and pot-limit Texas Hold ‘Em, Omaha Hi,
five-card draw, seven-card stud and Razz—but really, my heart belongs to no-limit Texas Hold ‘Em. (Isn’t that sweet?) S’matter of fact, I am playing […]