From the Editor: Thanksgiving for Poker Players
It’s Thanksgiving here in the US, and despite Black Friday there’s still a lot for poker players to be thankful for. Let’s take the time to reflect on some of those things: Egg Nog — Sorry, but that always tops my Thanksgiving “Things to be Thankful For” list. It’s just so damn tasty! Smart People...
Creative Play
Everyone loves playing “creative” poker. The excitement of pulling off an elaborate bluff against a certain opponent sometimes outweighs the feeling of actually winning the game. Unfortunately, this fact gets a lot of people in trouble. There’s a time and a place for creative play, and there are a certain amount of things that we...
The 5 Most Underrated Players in Poker
There are certain players in the world of poker who receive far more attention than their accomplishments warrant (usually due to a memorable TV moment). Likewise there is a group of players whose accomplishments are generally overlooked by the poker masses. In this article I will take a look at five players who I feel...
Under the Felt: The Psychology of the Read
Reading Your Opponents: Real Life Applications Being read like a book in poker is never fun. My first experience at truly having my pages turned was in a Venetian Deep Stack tournament. I survived 300 players and made it to the final two tables. I was getting short stacked. With the blinds and antes inching...
Karl’s Rant: The Rest of the Story
So you may have heard that I got tossed out of a poker room for slapping a kid that beat me in a pot. You probably figured that old Karl was a grumpy sore loser and you probably said something like “Well, I guess you can’t be surprised by that, he does get a little...
Book Review: How I Made My First Million from Poker
This week we received Trii ‘Slow Habit’ Nguyen’s How I Made My First Million, and whipped through it as quickly as we could to get a review up for the November issue. Lucky for us it reads easily and comes in at a reasonable 45,000 words, so we were able to get through most of...
