What Are They Thinking?

I’m going to reconstruct this hand as well as I remember it, from a private $1/2 game earlier this week. … More

Im-Postle-Able

The poker world has been consumed over the last week or so by revelations of apparent cheating by Mike Postle, … More

Last week I ventured to MGM National Harbor casino in suburban Washington, DC in the middle of the week. On … More

I spent a few days this week at MGM National Harbor casino in suburban Washington, DC. During the last session, … More

What do you call a Texas Hold’em poker hand that flops both a back door flush draw and a back … More

I’m reading this book, Ego is the Enemy by Ryan Holiday. I’ve read some of Holiday’s other works, including Conspiracy … More

So-called “bomb” pots have been popularized recently by poker vloggers Andrew Neeme, Brad Owen and others, and streaming programs such as … More

I’m a big fan of Mark Warner’s Exceptional Poker blog. At least I was a big fan until I read … More

In a draft for a future post, I’m describing one of the differences between cash game and tournament poker: Cash … More

Running it twice (or three times) is fairly common in the private no limit Texas Hold’em games I frequent. This … More