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What happens when you give young kids a lot of money, a warped sense of their place in the world (contrary to popular belief, pwning the poker world does not get you mentioned with names like Michael Jordan, Pele, and Babe Ruth), and then take away their computers? Well apparently you get this: Challenge matches, [...]

In Part 1 of this series I detailed the big myth in the poker world -That you are a good player-and offered up a little insight on why really good players don’t overly mind if you gain a little bit of knowledge. In this part of the series I will offer some ways for you [...]

There is a really big secret perpetuated by professional poker players, and we (As a former professional poker pro I’ll count myself amongst this group since I’ve profited handily from the myth in the past) are thankful that virtually every aspiring poker player falls for it; some for the remainder of their lives.
So what is [...]

Aside from the World Series of Poker there are two behemoths in the world of tournament poker, The World Poker Tour and The European Poker Tour; interestingly both tours are owned by competing online poker rooms with the EPT a subsidiary of PokerStars while the WPT can claim Party Gaming as its parent company.
Initially the [...]

On November 22 two Team PokerStars Pros, Lex Veldhuis and Bertrand “ElkY” Grosspellier will square off in five-round Kickboxing match. The match has been a few years in the making with the basic outline of the wager being formulate at the 2009 EPT Barcelona, so if the idea seems a bit juvenile just remember the [...]

2011 was perhaps the most interesting year in poker history. With some of the game’s greats falling from grace due to the crackdown on online poker and the subsequent fallout, in the spring of 2011 poker looked to be in dire straits, with article after article defaming the game. But thankfully there were also some [...]

Since 2001 (What I’ll be calling the Modern Era of poker) there have been some pretty high-profile names at the final tables of the WSOP Main Event, but how does the whole table stack-up against the others of this era? In this column I’ll be looking at the sum of the parts, instead of each [...]

There is a concept in poker known as “Levels of Thinking” which is something along the lines of the old adage of staying one-step ahead of your opponents. In poker this thinking usually gets explained in the following manner:

I have xx
I think my opponent has xx
I think my opponent thinks I have [...]

Let me start this off with the admission that I am not a Dutch Boyd in any way, but I have to give credit where credit is due in this instance.
On last week’s DonkDown Radio show, special guest Dutch Boyd talked at length about the Epic Poker League, and on one specific charge I couldn’t [...]

With the Jose “Girah” Macedo scandal winding down, I thought it would be a good idea to see where Macedo and his counterparts, Haseeb “DogisHead” Qureshi and Daniel “jungleman12″ Cates rank on the all-time list of poker players who have been caught cheating, or have a reputation as being cheats.
So without further adieu, here are [...]