Everybody knows that there is some luck involved in poker. However, despite what some congressmen think, there are also plenty of things players can do to control their own destiny in poker. And this mainly comes from making plays with positive expected value. If expected value (EV) is a totally alien concept [...]
It’s no secret among poker insiders that Annie Duke isn’t exactly one of the most liked players (or rather personalities since she doesn’t do much playing anymore). Duke has always been known as somewhat cold, and her boasting of being the world’s best female poker player (even though she isn’t really) hasn’t sat well [...]
At the age of 7, most kids who grow up to become poker pros are merely hanging around their father’s poker table while the grownups play. 7 year-old Alexa Fisher, on the other hand, is busy refining her strategy in all of the poker disciplines, which she has already learned by the way.
Fisher knows [...]
Most experienced players know about the concept of value betting. Even if you don’t know about value betting, you still do it on a regular basis without even realizing it.
Value betting is simply trying to get the maximum value out of a made hand. For instance, let’s say you flop an ace-high flush [...]
During the poker boom in the mid-2000’s, Gus Hansen was known as one of the most popular players. First off, the suave Denmark native was one of the all-time live tournament winners with millions of dollars to his name. On top of that, Hansen was known as one of the better looking and [...]
Just for the record, I hate scam artists and anybody whose main goal in life is to defraud people out of their money. That being said, I don’t really like Samuel McMaster Jr. who made off with a reported $440,000 after scamming elderly and retired people out of their hard-earned money. On the [...]
Lately I’ve been seeing some online poker tournaments that are specifically designed for women. This has me wondering exactly how an online poker site can pull off a ladies only tournament. After all, it seems like poker organizations have enough trouble keeping guys out of live tourneys so how in the world is [...]
A lot of beginner Omaha Hi-Lo players think that it’s really cool to win half of the pot. After all, if you only contribute 30% of the pot and win back 50% of it, this seems like a good investment. However, the truth is that going for half of the pot in Omaha [...]
Up until June, this was shaping up to be a very bad year for Michael “The Grinder” Mizrachi. First off, Mizrachi hadn’t had a significant tournament cash since 2008, which probably led to his second bigger problem: he owed the IRS over $360,000. As was well documented in the poker news, Mizrachi, lost [...]