Archive for Poker Articles

My Poker Challenge Update

Obviously I must drag myself away from the bwin.com poker tables for long enough to get an update to my readers or else be drowned by the deluge of emails asking for updates. Ok, so perhaps that is in my mind but if I am going to do a poker challenge I must keep it [...]

Read More

The Sponsorship of Female Poker Players

If you are an attractive and photogenic female poker player you might be able to get sponsored by a large poker room who will use your attention-grabbing photos to generate new players for their site. There are many female professionals who make a good living this way. If you have a bit of brains and [...]

Read More

Some of the Most Famous Poker Hands

While many people may be familiar with the term “aces and eights” or “dead man’s hand,” how many actually know the history behind this? And what about other famous poker hands that have cropped up over time? There are two particularly famous poker hands you’ll regularly come across, both the infamous “Dead Man’s Hand” and [...]

Read More

The Long Slow Poker Grind part three

There are undoubtedly many players in this world better at poker than me but that number will diminish very rapidly to the amount of players who have worked harder than me. There is a tremendous amount of delusion within poker even by players who can be considered good and experienced. I have had several players [...]

Read More

The Long Slow Poker Grind part two

I can hear many people screaming at me, “well just how are you supposed to learn the game then Carl?” Books are a constant in what is a forever changing environment despite the fact that there are some very good poker books out there.
It is a well known but not often contemplated fact that the [...]

Read More

The Long Slow Poker Grind part one

I have made a lot of mistakes during my life and a lot of mistakes during my poker career. I don’t just mean during the actual hands themselves because with poker being a game of incomplete information then mistakes during the play of the hands are inevitable. I am talking about much more serious errors [...]

Read More

Fundamentals of Poker: Starting Hands

Your starting hand in a game of poker is one of, if not the most, fundamental aspect that you need to consider before approaching a poker game. Being able to understand, analyze, and then act upon the cards you are initially dealt is the foundation of all later plays to be done in a round, [...]

Read More

Downshifting from Tournament Play

Because tournament poker is so radically different from cash game poker then sometimes it can be difficult to shift your mental state across to the other form of poker properly if you have played them both in a relatively short time frame. Tournament players that drop into my games while waiting for a tournament to [...]

Read More

Adjusting to your new poker environment

An often little understood factor in playing poker online or anywhere for that matter is that unless you have done it before then it can feel very strange. Even if you are in fact an experienced online or live card room player then if you are playing in a different game or playing against different [...]

Read More

Where The Money Comes From in Poker part three

While we are on the subject of switching sites this brings up something else that is very important, that of site selection or switching sites just to get a sign up bonus. Buying into a site primarily to get a sign up bonus is what LOSING poker players do. There are ALWAYS other far more [...]

Read More