Poker Articles

The idea of being a poker pro is alluring. You are your own boss. You play when you want. You study when you want. You have nearly infinite vacation days. You can travel on a whim to a tournament [...]

Yup, that’s right, I’m going to tell you how to “win poker”. In one article. Without knowing anything about you, your motivations, your current poker knowledge, or your learning [...]

When the 51st annual World Series Of Poker in Las Vegas was cancelled earlier this year, we were promised that poker players would still be able to compete for bracelets online this summer. A [...]

How can we apply winning poker strategies to life under the specter of the coronavirus? We might not realize it, but poker skills and life skills often develop on parallel tracks. To wit: Keep [...]

The year: 1855. The place: an opulent riverboat heading up the Mississippi from New Orleans to St. Louis. It’s a couple of hours before sunrise and you’ve been playing draw poker all [...]

Our thoughts as the coronavirus transitions to a pandemic and heavily impacts the poker scene worldwide. Thursday, March 5, 2020 by Zac Shaw Quick updates for you as COVID-19 continues to grip [...]

In terms of uniqueness, Los Angeles poker takes the cake. Partly this reflects simple economics. The value of a dollar in L.A. is different than in, say, Las Vegas. The one life reality that all [...]

Towards the beginning of the online poker boom, my main game was $25/$50 Limit Hold’em on a European site that is now nothing more than a footnote in poker history. The platform was [...]

The purpose of this article is twofold. First, we attempt to summarize the current legal status of online poker in the United States. You may be surprised to learn that, despite a confusing legal [...]

Continuation betting bluffs is one of the first things players learn about postflop strategy. Read any poker book and the simplified advice essentially boils down to “raise preflop and if you get [...]

(Editor’s note: PRO/CORE subscribers may wish to review the CORE lessons on expected value (EV) and equity before proceeding.) In order to best understand realization, we first need to take [...]