Poker Tips and Strategy - Page 5

Last week we took a look at a situation that happens all too frequently in seven-card stud hi/lo -- a player with no qualifying low hand who gets freerolled for the high half of the pot by a player with a made low. The long and short...

A man with a clear conscience has nothing to fear from a knock at midnight. -Chinese Proverb

[This is a work of poker fiction set ten thousand

You will hear the words 'power' and 'poker' used a lot together. Yet everyone seems to have different definitions of what power poker is. Some insist that it

John 'The Razor' Phan sliced and diced his way to another big payday last week at the main event of the Bicycle Casino's Legends of Poker tournament. Not onl

Republican Platform:

The first published draft of the 2008 Republican Party Platform originally included anti-internet gambling language which read, i

Joseph Walsh drove up to Las Vegas the last few days of the World Series of Poker to spend some quality time with old friends... the world of gambling and it

All too often poker players think of poker psychology as the study of one's opposition. More precisely, most assume it involves watching other players for ph

Stud games are typically the games that beginning mixed-games players struggle with the most. They require much more attention to detail than flop games due to all of the cards that are exposed during the course of a hand. For example...

[Press Release]WASHINGTON, D.C. (September 10, 2008) - Surpassing its initial goals, the Poker Players Alliance (PPA), the leading poker grassroots advocacy organization with over 1 million members, raised over $140,000 for paralyzed veterans through t

Are you a compulsive gambler?

Is that even a fair question to ask someone who plays primarily, or exclusively, poker?

Is poker

Part three of this series summarizing the Reno poker scene continues with seven reviews from the Reno and Sparks rooms.

Circus Circus is a dark

They are CEREUS. Absolute Poker and UltimateBet, two online gaming sites that have each been embroiled in significant scandals that rocked the online poker c

White light goin' messin' up my mind was a Velvet Underground lyric stuck in my head that had been playing on an endless loop after a horrendous online sessi

While the main objective of Omaha/8 is to scoop the entire pot rather than splitting it, more often than not Omaha/8 is a game of pieces. Typically you're pla

The blinds drive the action in no-limit hold 'em. When you post your blinds, your opponents will be looking for opportunities to attack them. Some attack by r

There's a lot of discussion about odds in poker. When applied to the random shuffle of a deck of cards, odds are an indispensable tool for success. The odds o

For the last few weeks we have considered why now is the time to start playing mixed games, what some basic considerations are when playing a mixed-game tournament, and what basic adjustments should be made when playing in a mixed-game...

Canterbury Park, home of the largest poker room in the Midwest, and uncontested leader in poker tournaments concluded a new, and highly successful tournament

September 2, 2008 (Macau, China) 20-year-old Yevgeniy Timoshenko, a highly rated player from the United States of Ukrainian descent has won the 2008 APT Macau, Asia's largest guaranteed tournament, at the glamourous Galaxy StarWorld. 257 players from

[editor's note: Poker News' Haley Hintze alternates writing the Poker News column with John Caldwell]

SESSIONS INTRODUCES UIGEA 'CLARIFICATION,' POKER WORLD SPLIT

A bill introduced this week by Congressman Pete Sessions (R