As in countless Westerns, poker was used merely as an index of male virility. — Anthony Holden, Big Deal — Let’s finally make the strip-club sign ours: Girls! Girls! Girls! Barriers [...]
Every poker session is an opportunity to learn. I observed the following hand at a Caesar’s Palace $1/2 game and since I was not directly involved in the action, the lesson had the added [...]
You fold because in live cash you answer to no one. You fold because reckless tribal hero calls are for sissies. You fold because you cherish your stack and every dollar counts. You fold because [...]
For most poker players it’s the first programmed bluff we learn. We raise pre-flop, get called, and bet the flop. We’ve made a continuation bet or C-bet. The idea behind the play is [...]
Poker is hypnotic. A siren call. We enter a weird expensive world in a kind of trance. It takes years to get our brains right and generate profit. So the road to that exquisite Maserati is [...]
The herd mentality in casino poker is strong and reveals itself particularly noticeably in both bet sizes and betting lines. At $1/2 I doubt most players could tell you why their standard open is [...]
Maybe Christian Soto’s right. Light em on fire: Poker books put players in a box. Once the player is in this box, it is really hard to break them out. Poker is a fluid game. Game flow dynamics, [...]
One of my favorite pair of RCP videos is Doug Hull’s couplet: “How an Unstudied Player Thinks.” which you can find here and here. They feature someone who has played poker for a long time, [...]
Poker can seem like an immensely complex game given the large number of variables that need to be considered in every situation. But if we create a plan, or at least a framework for considering [...]
Every year at Red Chip we get multiple inquiries about where to play cash games and tournaments and a host of other questions concerning the poker summer in Las Vegas. We’ve published [...]
Hollywood has given many the impression that expert poker players make their fortunes by correctly interpreting a pulsing neck vein, or by peering like vampires into the souls of their victims [...]
