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When I first clicked on the link to the trailer for the new poker documentary All In: The Poker Movie that appeared in my Facebook inbox I thought to myself, “this movie has been in production way too long!” considering some of the players being interviewed and spouting their opinions about poker included some of [...]

The title pretty much speaks for itself on this one, so I’ll get right into the nuts and bolts of the article. Here is a look at numbers 5-10 on my list of the best female tournament poker players in today’s game. #10 – Maria Ho Even though her BFF friendship with pokertainment queen Tiffany [...]

When the entire world suddenly became entranced with poker it was as if $100 bills were raining down on the people who had beat the rush and were already proficient poker players. The same could be said for people who got in on the ground floor of the poker boom (from about 2003 to early [...]

There are a lot of expressions and sayings in poker, and like everything else about the game, how these sayings are interpreted is open to debate. In this column I’ll take a look at three of the most famous sayings in poker and give a couple of different opinions on what they really mean. Trust [...]

When you begin to take poker seriously, and start putting in a lot of hours (especially live poker) the one thing you will never be without is advice; whether asked for or unsolicited pretty much everyone you interact with in poker will try to “guide” you! Because of this, it’s vitally important that you learn [...]

Imagine a poker game where the rake structure is so convoluted and complex that the poker room manager tells you not to worry about it, “the card-room will supply you with a professional who can determine precisely how much you owe”, for an additional fee of course! Well, this isn’t too far from how the [...]

How often do you hear a person commenting on how the lottery is a “sucker’s bet”? Well if you know anyone in the world of poker you probably hear this somewhat regularly. But the truth of the matter is that there is no other gambling enterprise that offers BETTER odds at turning $1 into $1,000,000+ [...]

After more than a decade in the world of professional poker and interacting with professional poker players of all shapes and sizes I have come to the realization that there are two types of personalities that populate the ranks of pro poker players. The most common type of pro is the accommodating and modest types, [...]

It seems that ESPN poker commentator recently got into a little hot water after violating court rules while serving on a jury. In a case of Norman Chad simply being Norman Chad, the cynical, sarcastic, witty pundit decided to Tweet even though the jurors were expressly not told not to communicate during the trial. The [...]

Every poker player may be an individual –with their own set of strengths, weaknesses, and quirks-but for the most part poker players fall under a certain category. Obviously there are winners and losers, but inside each of those categories are more subsets, and without getting too specific I’ve narrowed these sub-categories down to three for [...]