One of the biggest stereotypes surrounding poker is that bluffing is a common move.  Of course, after signing up for an online account and playing for a while, most new players start to realize that this simply isn’t the case.  Even still, the whole idea that, “He could be bluffing,” sticks with players for months [...]

Back in the mid-2000’s, when even Howard Lederer and Gus Hansen were making money in poker, slowplaying was actually an accepted way to play big hands.  The slowplaying concept was centered on a belief that you didn’t want an opponent to know you were holding a monster hand until later on. But like so many [...]

Much has been written about tournament bubbles….a little too much in fact.  So for your sake, we’ll avoid any corny tips about how you should play aggressive on the bubble because everyone else will be trying to sneak into the money.  Instead, let’s take a look at the psychological aspect of playing the bubble and [...]

Reporting on the struggles of Gus Hansen in recent years is nothing new.  In fact, it’s like saying that potato chips are bad for you or fish like water or…..okay, you get the picture.  We even took the time earlier this year to show Hansen’s downswing in online poker (see here) to document how bad [...]

Unlike many other child/teenage stars from the 80’s whose careers have nosedived, Christian Slater is still acting in movies…..well, sort of.  Of course, it’s kind of hard to say he’s still a star since his last big role was in the 2005 film Alone in the Dark.  But hey, at least it’s something.  Perhaps Slater [...]

We all know what playing the lottery week in and week out leads to: a balding, beer-bellied man who has no hope for the future expect the microscopic chance that his Powerball number will finally come through in addition to the five numbers before it.  And the 50% ROI on all of the tickets he [...]

It’s safe to say that the average, sane person would choose playing poker over going to prison – unless of course you are forced to sit between David Williams and Daniel Negreanu.  Interestingly enough, a New Mexico man was faced with the decision of whether to play poker or go to prison just last week. [...]

Last Thursday I had a friend’s mom come over to feng shui my house. I have had it feng shuied before, but never like this. There are so many different schools of thought when it comes to that, but still lots of basic rules. We spent so much time in certain rooms we didn’t even [...]

When poker and other casino games were recently legalized in Pennsylvania, Donald Trump and all of the other mint julep-drinking yuppies who have a stake in the Atlantic City casinos took a collective gulp.  Now people from Philadelphia don’t have to drive all the way to Atlantic City just to play table games and live [...]

If you’re interested in making thousands of dollars aside from the cashes you get in Carbon Poker tournaments, then you’ll definitely love the Tourney King promotion at Carbon.  With the Tourney King promotion, Carbon will be giving $20,000 in extra cash prizes to tournament players each month.  What this means is that you could win [...]