Online Trading & Poker

It’s 4 o’clock in the afternoon. My coffee is half drunk and long since cold. I’m leaning forward in my chair only a few inches from my computer screen. Impervious to how bad this is for both my eyes and lumbar regions I probably wouldn’t notice if a small hand grenade went off in the [...]

Focus on Brian Townsend

“There isn’t a six handed game I wouldn’t sit in.” You don’t have to talk to Brian Townsend long before you experience the confidence and competitive drive that has catapulted him to the top of poker. On first meeting he can appear unassuming even a little shy but there’s no doubting his all [...]

Making the Jump – Part 1

It was a grey late spring morning when the man came to take my car away. As he drove the shiny black vehicle into the distance it wasn’t all I would be losing. I was losing a lifestyle and an identity and it was all my choice. In the last month I’d [...]

World Series Dreams (and Nightmares)

As I write this I’m in the middle of packing to travel to the 2008 World Series of Poker. I mean literally in the middle of packing by the way. My room looks like someone threw a clothing hand grenade into it. Some items have made their way into the case but I think that’s [...]

Exit Strategies

It’s a truth of poker that there is no graceful way to leave a live tournament when you’ve been knocked out. In that moment every poker player, from Phil Ivey in the World Series to a first time in the local, is reduced to a tiny insignificant shell. Whether you deserved to go out, were [...]

Keeping Bad Players Playing – Don’t Tap The Glass

Poker has changed and several skills that players held sacred are slowly disappearing. Such as the ability of staring into an opponents eyes and knowing he doesn’t have it (it’s all hand ranges now) and of course the art of getting to the toilet and back between two hands (wireless connections are removing the need). [...]

Getting into Omaha

If you always do what you’ve always done you’ll always get what you’ve always got. I’m pretty sure I saw that on a beer mat somewhere. However recently that hasn’t been true when I’ve played. The online games have been becoming steadily tougher and less profitable and, whisper it quietly, I’d been getting worse.
If I’m [...]

Poker Training Day

Shalom baby. Do you remember how you learned to play this great game? I barely do, so lost in years of decadence have the beginnings of this habit become. I know I taught myself from a book and watching old people play in Vegas. There’s no doubt how you learn has a big effect on [...]

Heads Up

I need to learn the difference between having fun and doing something seriously. In fact I need to learn when having fun becomes serious (apparently it can be anything from one night to about 6 weeks depending on the girl).
Last week I came in from working all day and wanted to chill out – unplug [...]

Rekindle That Poker Magic

Let’s be clear about a few things up front. I love poker. I think about it too much and play it too much. I openly admit I’m addicted to it and everything about it (step one of a twelve step process). But am I still in love with it?
I thought I was. I still look [...]

Next Page »