Archive for Professionals

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 […]

In Texas Hold’em, when you start off with your two hole cards, your only next step is to decide whether to stay in the hand or fold. This is stating the obvious, but how much you bet is going to depend on your odds, right? Wrong. If you make a habit of making your bet […]

This is a bit of reflecting about Poker and where it’s going, for better or for worse. Sometime earlier this year, one of the tourneys I watched on TV made some mention of a gigantic poker tournament to be held around June 2006 in Australia or some such, and for which the prize pool would […]

Just a few tidbits about hand odds and poker in general… Have you seen the new Pepsi TV commercial featuring a can of diet Pepsi, Daniel Negreanu, and a few other poker players? The can of Pepsi wins the tournament. Exactly what soda pop has to do with poker, I don’t know. Kind of a […]

In the intro chapter to Phil Gordon’s Little Green Book, he writes that great poker players share five qualities. Here’s a summary of those qualities:
(1) Aggressive
(2) Patient
(3) Courageous
(4) Observant
(5) Always improving
By aggressive, he does not necessarily mean playing every hand like a “jackal”. (Phil Hellmuth’s animal designation for a player who calls every bet, […]

The UPC Ultimate Poker Challenge with Phan vs Tahoe aired up here in the Toronto, Canada area over the weekend. Since most televised poker matches give very few cues as to when the match took place - a very frustrating fact - this match may or may not have been recent. (A few Google searches […]

Up here near Toronto, Canada, we’ve been getting a lot of broadcasts of classic poker matches. My feeling at first is one of being a bit cheated. But the truth is, like watching old football or hockey games, there’s something to be learned here. You can definitely learn something from watching these pros, especially their […]

Towards the end of the WPT Legends of Poker Tournament at the Bicycle Casino, Doyle Brunson was about to be heads-up against Lee Watkinson for the title. All of sudden, two guys in tuxedos riding unicycles appear, carrying platters of prize money. Suitable, considering it’s the Bicycle Casino. They stop, start to juggle a few […]

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 […]