A good friend of mine plays in at least one poker tournament every week online with a buy in over $100 and he has been trying to get me to play in them with him for quite some time. I have never been a great tournament poker player so I have avoided playing until recently. I decided that in my ne...

One of the areas of my game that requires constant watch over is the way my current opponents are playing and my estimate of their abilities. I play in a wide range of games, from the lowest limits, filled with players who act like they have never seen a Texas holdem game, up to games with player...

My wife enjoys playing the slot machines, a little too much in my opinion, and as most of us know, they drain your bankroll pretty quickly, sometimes as much as 10% of every dollar played.

She also plays poker, mostly Texas hold em, so I decided to teach her how to play video poker...

Though I have written about pot odds in the past, it has been a long time and it has always been a more technical discussion than we will be having today. Below is a method that I have not discussed before. I have never used this method for determining my pot odds, and it is a great way for begin...

I teach a few classes at a local private college, where it is widely known that I play a great deal of poker. One of the other professors and I had an interesting conversation last week where the subject of my children came up, and if I thought it was the "right" thing to teach them how to play p...

If you have played in live poker rooms much at all, you have undoubtedly played against opponents that had too much to drink and opponents who were rude and/or obnoxious. The majority of opponents who appear to be drunk are highly profitable to play against, and if you can emotionally handle the ...

Are you a tournament or ring game player?

This is such an interesting question to me that I felt it was necessary to write a column about it. Like the great majority of players, especially newer players to the game of poker, I used to say “Both”. However, over the past few years I ...

I have been playing poker for several years now, and would consider myself to be a good player, but then again who wouldn’t. Everyone who sits down at a poker table thinks “I’m going to win.” Think about it, have you ever sat down at a tournament or cash game and said “I&...

One thing I have noted is that the amount of cash in front of a player changes the way they play. This is an issue as disciplined poker, which by definition means playing each and every hand the same way, seems to be the single best way to come out ahead on the tables in the long run.