Archive for Hold 'Em

…the dealer will now proceed to ritualistically Burn a card.

Greetings, My name is Brett Bumeter and I am a new writer here at The Poker Blog. I have been playing cards and poker for much of my life. I also cover several other topics as a writer from Finance, International Tax, Web Marketing, MindMapping, and Comedy.
Over the course of the next weeks and months […]

Forget for a moment that the “make online poker illegal” crew is active again, raising their collective ugly head. Some people are still playing. John helped me put together a quick primer on how to lose your money fast. It’s a collection of tips based on some of the things John has already learned this […]

Once you find the best, you never mess with the rest. Isn’t that how it always works, or should, at least? The only problem with placing the title of “The Best” on any given organization, person or idea is the fact that everything is constantly changing. 10 years ago a mobile […]

If you missed it, Pam Anderson and Kid Rock had a live chat last weekend on pamelapoker.com. John’s friend sent a snippet of the session (which I’ll post later), but the highlights apparently were about baby poop and that Cindy Crawford was baby-sitting for them. (Not sure but I think the baby’s name is “kid […]

Found this clip of the final hand for this year’s 2006 WSOP poker tournament. It was down to Jamie Gold, the Hollywood agent, versus Paul Wasicka, who I’ve not heard of before. Unfortunately, the volume is really low, so you’ll have crank it up (and don’t forget to turn it back down so you don’t […]

On one of the poker podcasts downloaded to my iPod, one host was lamenting the fact that a lot of people create variations of poker purely as a leveller of skill. They do this, he said, instead of taking the time to develop their own skill at a particular version of poker.
So to level the […]

Yes, the $12 million top prize of the 2006 37th WSOP Championship went to Jamie Gold, a Hollywood talent agent. He and most of the thousands of people who entered got their $10,000 entry fee from playing online poker, so they’re obviously against the pending legislation making Internet poker illegal.
Gold’s father suffers from Lou Gehrig’s […]

Tight Poker is showing some support for US troops in Iraq and sending them a donation of poker chips. They’ve teamed up with Screaming Eagle Poker to distribute the donation. Screaming Eagle holds free weekly no-limit hold’em tourneys for the soldiers. [via Tight Poker]
In other philanthropic events, several poker pros have been donating money from […]

On a televised poker tourney I saw the other day, pro Danny “Win” Nguyen said that he knows what his opponents are holding. How? Because when he came to the US, he started off as a poker dealer. He’s watched “tells” long enough to be able to interpret them. I’ve watched Nguyen play in a […]