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Chip stack missing
By The Hendon Mob
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01 Jun 2011
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Players are called to draw for seats at the final table before going on a break. Everyone draws a seat number and goes on their break. I’m just about to call the players back when I noticed there’s only 9 stacks on the table instead of 10.The players come back and there is in fact a stack missing. How do you rule?
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How not to suck at poker: Pay attention
By Sean Lind
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24 May 2011
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Part of our 10-part series for the beginner poker player, this article will touch on a critical ingredient in playing good poker that's often overlooked - paying attention.
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Flopping Top Set
By Erick Lindgren
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29 Mar 2011
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I want to go over a hand I played last year on Poker after Dark. This was a six-handed table where Howard Lederer, Patrik Antonius, and three UFC guys (basically amateurs) were playing.
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The Rivercard is Face Up
By The Hendon Mob
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25 Mar 2011
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The dealer discards the burn card to deal the river card but the river card is face up in the deck. Does this river card go?
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Double or Nothing Sit and Go Strategy
By Ben Wilson
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09 Mar 2011
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The focus of this article is one of the most basic types of SNG: the 'Double or Nothing' or DoN. This format follows a simple premise – finish in the top half of the field (top five in 10-handed, top three in six-max) and get paid double your money. Sounds pretty easy to make money right? Well yes and no.
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Your First Big Poker Score
By PokerListings
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23 Feb 2011
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John Kim has played poker professionally for over a dozen years. He's played several million hands at the mid to high-stakes levels online and has amassed over a million dollars in winnings.
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Unintentionally showing cards
By The Hendon Mob
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13 Feb 2011
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The ruling the club TD made was that his hand was seen and it altered the actions of the player seeing the cards, so putting other players still in the hand at a disadvantage, so his hand was then declared dead.
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Five Tips for Dealing with a Downswing
By Daniel Skolovy
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06 Feb 2011
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If you've played poker seriously for any amount of time, you've probably hit a downswing.
If you play the game long enough, though, they are as inevitable as the setting sun. Or getting your aces cracked on the bubble.
What separates great players from good players is their ability to deal with a downswing.
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Happy New Year
By Crystal Balls
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26 Jan 2011
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Crystal Balls has been staring into teacups and carving open live chickens to read their flopping innards and predict what the future brings for the poker world in this year of 20 and 11.
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Behind the mask with Jeff Burke
By Eliza Burnett
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16 Jan 2011
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Jeff Burke is the Head of International Mentoring for BadBeat Poker. He is single and lives in South Wales. He won the Midland Masters 2004 for £73,000 and was also part of the winning Dream Team in 2008.
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Final European Rankings 2010
By Peter Leeper
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07 Jan 2011
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There was no catching Julian Herold in the race for this year’s European Ranking’s championship title. It’s taken the entire ten tournament payload to clinch it for the German, with the Englishman Jake Cody actually not that far behind him and only three sets of ranking scores to his name.
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Top 7 Signs You're a TAGfish
By Daniel Skolovy
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29 Dec 2010
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Everyone knows today's online games are heavily populated with tight-aggressive players (otherwise known as TAGs).
But to go along with these good, money-making TAGs there's a growing number of break-even or slightly losing regulars known as TAGfish.
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Who Wins the Pot and Why?
By The Hendon Mob
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23 Dec 2010
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During the Barcelona EPT Roland De Wolfe and Tobias Reinkemeier got involved in a pot when they were both on the blinds. One had KING high by the river, the other QUEEN high. The queen high took the pot ..
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Tell your uncle Charlie
By Charlie Chimp
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16 Dec 2010
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It’s that time of year again. Charlie’s sack is bulging and he can’t wait to shower his loyal readers with goodwill. Among the literally three or four Christmas cards in his post bag, there are readers' plaintive cries for advice
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Guide to Winning Satellite Tournaments
By Nick Wright
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08 Dec 2010
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Mike Matusow once famously said that Chris Moneymaker should be given a cut from every poker tournament due to the Moneymaker effect after he qualified through a $40 satellite to the WSOP and turned it into $2.5 million.
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How to Put Your Opponent on a Range
By Daniel Skolovy
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17 Nov 2010
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In his book The Theory of Poker, David Sklansky states that to play a hand correctly is to play it the exact same way you would if you knew your opponent's hole cards.
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Checks Are for the Bank
By Hugo "Chimney Sweep" Martin
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11 Nov 2010
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Hugo Martin highlights some of the angle shoots and 'dodgy' decisions he's witnessed at the local cash tables.
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Feelin' Foxy
By Gavin Hall
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03 Nov 2010
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After what seems an eternity of waiting, the newest venue on the London Poker scene finally opened its doors: The Fox Club on Shaftesbury Avenue. Never one to miss out on being seen in the trendy new places, I have been there a few times to sample the ambiance and the local brand of sushi.
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Wild cards
By Jen Mason
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12 Oct 2010
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You’re playing a wild card variant: Omaha Jumpers. It’s played out Fixed Limit, with the same rules as Omaha; the wild card rules of the game are as follows
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The importance of Position
By Daniel Skolovy
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06 Oct 2010
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How many times do we have to say it? Position is the most important thing there is in No-Limit Hold’em ... seriously!
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I had a dream like this once
By Charlie Chimp
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02 Oct 2010
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The new thing for poker on TV is to offer ordinary folk the chance to pit their poker wits against the pros. To sit among the gods of the modern game - Ivey on one side, Hansen on the other. Charlie Chimp investigates what it takes enter the lion’s den and emerge with your large intestine still on the inside.
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What's He Not Holding?
By Arthur S. Reber
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28 Sep 2010
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Standard poker strategy counsels you to work on reading your opponents to learn how to put them on a hand (or, better, a range of hands).
This is sound advice and an essential element in the repertoire of any good player,but there's more to this 'reading hands' thing, some of it straightforward, some not so.
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How to get paid off with big hands
By Daniel Skolovy
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23 Sep 2010
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So you've flopped a monster. That's the easy part. Now how do you plan on getting paid?
Big hands deserve big pots. But what's the best way to get your stack into the pot?
Building a big pot may be simple in theory, but in reality there's a lot more to it. One of the first concepts that you learn when you start playing poker is there are big-pot hands and small-pot hands.
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Checking the nuts
By The Hendon Mob
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19 Sep 2010
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An unfortunate lady was taken aside by a floorman who most apologetically explained to her that she was being penalized for checking the nuts.
"You see, you had the best hand possible, so if someone bets you have to raise and if someone checks you have to bet, you have to create action. See, if you don't, then it's more like a home game, with everyone just checking and all friendly..."
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Limit Seven-Card Stud Beginners Guide Part 3
By Sean Lind
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12 Sep 2010
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Part two of our beginners guide to Stud detailed some common mistakes, starting hands and the concept of stealing antes. In the final part we'll explore how to play the different types of starting hands.
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Cards fly off table
By The Hendon Mob
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06 Sep 2010
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The director ruled that they had a no-discretion rule that if a player's cards hit the floor, the player gets an immediate penalty, in this case it was fifteen minutes. I questioned this rule, since I could see cards by complete accident hitting the floor.
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Matthew "mindcirkus" Wheat is a professional poker player. He successfully transitioned from NLHE to PLO, and in 2010 made the final table of WSOP Event #55, the $10,000 PLO Championship.
Matthew "mindcirkus" Wheat fills us in on the hard realities of being a professional poker player.
It's imperative that any player who plays poker often enough to call it a hobby, a passion or even their source of employment keep detailed notes on their sessions.
