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You might recall that, a few months back, we interviewed Chad Andrews, creator of California Hold’em (Part 1, Part 2), an alternate to Texas Hold’em. The game has some extra cards (2 per suit = 8) and supposedly requires more skill to pull off. (Read the interview :)
Well, if you’ve been waiting to […]

Pam Anderson sure is a busy woman. In addition to getting married in four different ceremonies to Kid Rock, Pam’s launching her own poker site, PamelaPoker.com. It has Texas, Omaha (spelled there as Ohama), Seven Card Stud, and Badugi Poker. There’s also a picture gallery (with tons of salacious pics) and a diary detailing some […]

The US government may have arrested a British Internet casino owner, David Carruthers, and 10 others in connection with fraud and other related charges, but the bilionaire Canadian owner, Calvin Ayre, of Bodog.com, an online gambling website, says he’s not worried. Forbes magazine lists Ayre as amongst the 1,000 richest men in the world.
Ayre says […]

The US House of Representatives recently voted overwhelmingly in favour (317 to 93) of making online gambling illegal. There still has to be a vote by the Senate. Previous bills have not passed there. As well, US bricks-and-mortar casinos have been lobbying senators to make online gambling legal. [via Bloomberg]
Some people feel this is a […]

In Phil Gordon’s Little Green Book, he points out the importance of position in No Limit Hold’em - although I think it applies to Limit Hold’em as well. Being last to bet, he says, is having “good position”.
The importance of your position in a hand should not be underestimated. Being on the button (being the […]

One thing to remember while deciding whether to play a pre-flop hand in Texas Hold’em is that given a deck of 52 cards, there are 3 (K, Q, J) x 4 suits = 12 face cards. Add in the 4 As and 4 Tens, and you have 20 “favorable” cards in a deck of 52. […]

Online gaming, especially poker, has had a bad rap for the last few years, primarily because of the spamming activities of the few. Unfortunately for many fans, several U.S. states have passed, or are passing, laws banning online gaming. While these bills may span all types of online gambling, the attacks appear to be focused […]

Quick poker-related links for Thur May 11/06:
(1) On Saturday, May 20/06, sign up for the Golden Goal Poker Tournament at HoldemPoker.com and you could win a freeroll at one of two WSOP (World Series of Poker) summer events.
(2) Professional poker player Daniel Negreanu, in an article in the Detroit News, says that you can become […]

The online edition of a local British Columbia newspaper has an inspiring story of a poker player making it to a large Canadian Texas Hold’Em tournament (3000 players) taking place in early May at the Niagara Fallsview Casino in Niagara Falls, Ontario, Canada.
As the article indicates, Marty Kelly has been playing poker for 20 years […]

Allow me digress for a moment from Poker. It’s been said that to become an expert at anything, it takes 10,000 hours of relevant activity. I’d have to say that this is a pretty reasonable figure. At 40 hrs per week, it would take about 5 years to achieve expert status in something.
Consider, then, based […]