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Ever think about hands in the shower? I’m not talking about bad beats. I’m referring to thoughts concerning your line work on certain board textures out of position against multiple [...]

Poker books suck. The statement may be hypocritical, given I took part in writing one of the too many poker books out there. However, I choose to stand by my opening statement. Why would I say [...]

When I first started playing, I would never have envisioned a situation where people tuned in to watch me play online poker. To be frank, when I first started I was terrible, so you wouldn’t have [...]

Limping gets a bad wrap. Limping just isn’t cool anymore. The act of limping isn’t as sexy as Three-Betting and running elaborate multi-street bluffs. Therefore, through the years, limping lost [...]

For years, my poker experience centered on rounding an array of underground games within the New York City/New Jersey area. Even though today I go to Parx Casino (PA) and Borgata in Atlantic City [...]

Nine players of the same technical skill level play each other endlessly; who wins? Well, besides the rake of course, the player who can avoid tilt wins. It is astonishing how tilt and the mental [...]

When the old school players ruled the game, they preached discipline. Discipline to not overplay hands and not pile in chips with any Ace on an Ace-high board. Today, as I return from a poker [...]

If you play live poker, you’ll notice that most winning players play similarly. They reside in a safe cocoon and avoid other regulars while feeding off the weak. Three-bet ranges are nearly [...]

“Don’t C-bet unless you have a double barrel plan.” I heard this once. Honestly, I am not entirely sure where but it is undoubtedly a great piece of advice, and today I have chosen to forward it [...]

Coming from an online background, I am taken aback by these comments. Three, Four, and Five-bets are common place with AK on the virtual felt but it seems we have entered an alternate universe [...]