Category: poker

Poker Strategy – I Wear My Sunglasses at Night…

If you’re an 80’s music lover, you will know the following song… If you’ve watched any televised poker tournament, then the image of the hat and sunglasses are familiar. Outside of looking like they’re hiding from the TMZ tour bus,…

Poker Tournament: Bounty

Think of an old western style wanted poster, like this:   That’s the premise of a bounty tournament in a nut shell. For all intensive purposes, we’ll talk about it in the scope of a holdem game.  Bounty Holdem tournaments…

Poker Strategy – Looking Beyond Your Hand

I hate to say this, but humans, by nature, are born egocentric beings.  It’s a byproduct of our survival instincts.  This instinct eventually widens to familial and communal groups, then later, as the emotional maturity level develops, to altruistic endeavors….

Poker Strategy – Your Chip Stack

I’ve seen this many times. Players seated at a poker tournament.  It’s already an hour or so in and the re-buy period is over. Blinds are at 1,000 and 2,000. Nobody makes a play because it’s just way too expensive….

1 in 649,739

Last night I dealt at the Michael J. Fox Foundation Casino Night and Poker Tournament.  The event was hosted by Michael J. Fox, with Phil Gordon moderating.  I got to rub some elbows with both folks as well as comedian…