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Now that Full Tilt Poker has joined PokerStars in offering Badugi games I thought I might give my readers a little insight into the inner workings of the poker game that has come to us from Korea, and is now taking the online poker world by storm. Badugi is also known by the names of [...]

Nine players sat down on the main stage of the Penn & Teller Theater on Saturday in what was seemingly a contest for about $30 million in prize-money, but a deeper look at precisely what was at stake for some of these players reveals a completely different dynamic. Some of these players were playing for [...]

Nine players sat down on the main stage of the Penn & Teller Theater on Saturday in what was seemingly a contest for about $30 million in prize-money, but a deeper look at precisely what was at stake for some of these players reveals a completely different dynamic. Some of these players were playing for [...]

After a very long day of poker at the Rio in Las Vegas we are finally down to the final two players in contention for the 2010 Worlds Series of Poker Main Event Championship. After some huge chip swings, and some wild, jaw-dropping, hands it was Full Tilt Poker’s John Racener and PokerStars‘ Jonathan Duhamel [...]

Now that Full Tilt Poker has joined PokerStars in offering their customers Badugi games I have decided to give out some basic tips for one of the most perplexing games in all of poker, Badugi. Now I’m by no means an expert in Badugi, but I have been playing the game longer than most -I [...]

PokerNews writer Chad Holloway recently penned an editorial regarding people wearing sunglasses at poker tables. Shockingly, with all of his reasons for wearing them Holloway failed to mention the only legitimate reason in my opinion: to cut down on the glare from bright lights in the card-room. Instead he focuses on hiding information, and being [...]

In order to be inducted into the Professional Baseball Hall of Fame you must have been retired from the game for 5 years, and most other sports’ Hall of Fames have similar criteria for induction. The Poker Hall of Fame is in a tricky situation in this regards because there really isn’t a retirement in [...]

The first step in your poker education comes with your first awareness that poker hands are not created equal, and playing catch-up is a surefire recipe for disaster. This is something I learned first-hand on a warm summer night in 2001 -yes, I came of age in the pre-boom poker world. Like many young males [...]

There is so much written about position in poker and how you should always try to have position on your opponents, but very few people have broken down the actual value of position, and explained it to poker laypeople. In this two-part series I will attempt to explain the importance of position both pre-flop and [...]

There is so much written about position in poker and how you should always try to have position on your opponents, but very few people have broken down the actual value of position, and explained it to poker laypeople. In this two-part series I will attempt to explain the importance of position both pre-flop and [...]