By Dan Katz for POKER NEWS DAILY
For several years, the only two poker television shows that anyone knew about were the World Series of Poker (WSOP) on ESPN and the World Poker Tour (WPT) on the Travel Channel (now on Fox Sports).
Posted on March 11th, 3:33 pm
By Dan Katz for POKER NEWS DAILY
One of the biggest pitfalls of being a professional online poker player is staying healthy. Live poker players have a hard enough time, but at least they have to walk through a casino to get to the table. Online players, on the other hand, only need a 400 square foot studio apartment to get by. More...
Comment Posted on March 4th
Way back in the year two thousand nine, I wrote an article laying out basic strategy for Double or Nothing (DoN) Sit-and-Go tournaments. I had taken a break from them for a little while, just to mix up my game, but this month, I have gotten back into them full force. More...
Comment Posted on February 25th
Today, I am going to go through a few of my choice tips for low-stakes Limit Seven Card Stud. If you are just picking up the game, these should be a good starting point as you develop your own style and strategy. More...
Comment Posted on February 18th
By POKER NEWS DAILY
On Monday evening, Isildur1 played a rousing $200/$400 No Limit Hold'em match against Justin "ZeeJustin" Bonomo, who has been spending a lot of time at the cash tables of Full Tilt of late. Isildur1 and Bonomo played nearly 2,000 hands, with Isildur1 taking more than $550,000 from the Las Vegas pro. More...
By Brett Collson Posted on February 16th
Ever since I first saw Tom Chambers' online poker screenname I have been a fan. The online poker pro may not be a household name, but his humorous online moniker, "LearnedFromTV" tends to stick with you. More...
By Jessica Welman Posted on February 12th
I have a cool job. I write about poker. Sure, the money I make doesn't compare to what many of my MBA classmates are likely making right now, but I get to work in a fun industry, I have gone on some great "business" trips, and the job allows me to work from home and not miss a day of my kids' lives. More...
By Dan Katz Posted on February 9th
Full Tilt Poker turned the online poker world on its head this week when it introduced a new poker variety called Rush Poker. Many of you have probably already tried it out, but for those of you who have not, I'll give you the quick rundown. More...
By Dan Katz Posted on January 22nd
It is the year 2010. The Unlawful Internet Gambling Enforcement Act (UIGEA) has been on the books in the United States since late 2006. While the deadline for implementing its regulations has been pushed back to the middle of this year, many financial institutions have already begun clamping down on transactions to online poker rooms. More...
By Dan Katz Posted on January 9th
Steve "gboro780" Gross is the epitome of consistency in the world of online poker. The 24 year-old poker pro from New Jersey has been among the world's top tournament players for several years across every major online poker site offered to U.S. players. More...
By Brett Collson Posted on January 6th
For 2010, I order you to honor the following resolution: have fun playing poker. I know, I know, it sounds odd. There is no quantifiable goal here. It’s like saying, “I’m going to lose 20 pounds”, and then rewarding yourself with a fudge brownie when you see the scale’s needle fall to 170 after it was 190 on January 1st. More...
By Dan Katz Posted on January 5th
Much ado has been made in the online poker industry in recent months about rakeback. I’m not writing about that controversy in this article, but suffice it to say that many, if not most, poker rooms and networks are not fond if it. More...
By Dan Katz Posted on December 24th
You’ve settled into your chair at your favorite poker room or online and are ready to play some world-class, A-game poker. After a short time, however, a player comes to the table who starts to get, for lack of a better term, “crazy.” More...
By Earl Burton Posted on December 12th
The game of poker is warfare of an unusual type. You battle it out with chips and cards instead of armaments and physical strength, using conflicting information to make the best decisions possible. More...
By Earl Burton Posted on December 1st
If you have played any serious poker in your lifetime, then you have seen the following situation occur at the tables. A player either limps in or raises the pot in early position with a small pocket pair and gets re-popped by another player. As others muck, suddenly a third person joins the battle with a re-raise of their own. More...
By Earl Burton Posted on November 19th
In poker, sometimes the hand you hold has differing capabilities depending upon the game that you’re playing. What would be a great hand in one form of poker can, in essence, be total junk in another discipline. More...
By Earl Burton Posted on November 12th
Abusing the money bubble has become an effective tactic in tournament poker. It is generally accepted that players should turn up the aggression as the bubble approaches because, in most cases, players will tighten up to guarantee a cash reward. More...
By Brett Collson Posted on November 5th
Many people have been discussing the relative merits of Limit Hold’em recently with regards to it being a “solved game”. There is no other form of poker that relies so heavily on statistics and mathematics than Limit Hold’em. More...
By Carl Sampson Posted on October 29th
I know you 20-somethings might not believe this, but even though Texas Hold’em has been around for a long time, it has only recently become the insanely popular poker game that it is today. For ages, Seven Card Stud was the game of choice. More...
By Dan Katz Posted on October 22nd
The world of internet poker is never lacking for controversy. The latest involves arguably the most respected online poker room in the industry, PokerStars. More...
By Dan Katz Posted on October 8th
I was cruising around the internet this week reading a number of poker blogs, as I am apt to do, when I queued up Daniel Negreanu’s. Never one to shy away from giving his opinion, he was adamant that No Limit Hold’em should be the only game played at the final table of the $50,000 HORSE event at the World Series of Poker, just as it was when Chip Reese won the first edition of it in 2006. More...
By Dan Katz Posted on October 1st
In poker, sometimes the hand you hold has differing potential depending upon the game you’re playing. What would be a great hand in one form of poker will, in essence, be junk in another discipline. In this continuing series of articles, we’ll examine particular hands and what strategies a player should use. More...
By Earl Burton Posted on September 24th
In poker, the hand you hold has different posiblities depending upon the game that you’re playing: what would be a great hand in one form of poker will, in essence, be total junk in another discipline of the game. More...
By Earl Burton Posted on September 19th
A couple of decades ago, billionaire entrepreneur Donald Trump wrote a book called “The Art Of The Deal.” In it, he detailed out how he went about creating, executing, and finishing major real estate transactions. The same idea can be applied to one of the most difficult tasks in poker, bluffing. More...
By Earl Burton Posted on September 14th
Last year, Full Tilt Poker introduced a new type of Sit-and-Go tournament called Matrix tournaments. They received a decent amount of attention at the time as players tried them out, but after a while, interest faded. More...
By Dan Katz Posted on September 14th
Our first installment of Hand of the Week comes from the final table of the Full Tilt Poker FTOPS XIII Event #17: $300 Six-handed NLHE with rebuys. The remaining four players had locked up a minimum of $87,334, but a first-place prize of $246,071 was on the line, as well as the coveted FTOPS jersey. More...
By Brett Collson Posted on September 3rd
Ok, ok, ok. I know the topic of tells in online poker has probably been done already on a gazillion poker websites, but after an involuntary hiatus from online poker (having a second kid will do that to a person), I have played a bit lately and sort of re-noticed things that I had taken for granted when I used to play more often. More...
By Dan Katz Posted on September 3rd
I am going to admit up front that this column does not offer up anything in the way of poker “strategy.” Rather, I am going with a bit of advice this week. Advice that, thanks to one of the most out of touch, obtuse, stubborn, self-centered poker message board posters of all time giving me the perfect jumping off point, may help you avoid some potential headaches down the road. More...
By Dan Katz Posted on August 27th
Not convinced poker is a game of skill? This article might alter your opinion of No Limit Hold’em as we delve into the mind of one of the top tournament poker players in the world. More...
By Brett Collson Posted on August 21st
I just got back from two weeks at the World Series of Poker. It had the usual mix of high drama, low humor, insanity, and all the things you count on at the WSOP. More importantly, it had the wonderful opportunities to reconnect with friends from all over the poker world that I don’t get to see often enough. More...
By Lee Jones Posted on August 13th
Jordan “scarface_79” Smith won his first World Series of Poker bracelet on June 20, 2009. He bested a field of 1,659 players to capture the $2,000 No Limit Hold’em Event (#36), collecting $586,212 in the process. More...
By Brett Collson Posted on August 4th
In the game of poker, sometimes the hand you hold has different capabilities depending upon the game that you’re playing: what would be a great hand in one form of poker will be mere junk in another discipline of the game. More...
By Earl Burton Posted on July 30th
My favorite part about watching “The Celebrity Apprentice” this season was to watch how Annie Duke played the game. It was obvious that she was a poker player (and no, not because she was “two-faced” or “conniving”) because she was the only one who seemed to have any sort of plan. More...
By Dan Katz Posted on July 23rd
Most of you probably don’t know this, but the Poker News Daily you are reading right now is actually Poker News Daily version 2.x (I would say 2.0, but that’s not quite accurate – the site has undergone some changes in recent months). More...
By Dan Katz Posted on July 10th
I know you may find this hard to believe, particularly after all the sage advice I have doled out on this website, but I have never won a World Series of Poker bracelet. I came close to a bracelet when I watched a final table from the bleachers, but never have been named the rightful owner of one. More...
By Dan Katz Posted on July 1st
Since the inception of the World Series of Poker 40 years ago, one of the biggest attractions wasn’t the tournament series itself but the side games that occurred after people had busted out of their tournaments. More...
By Sean Gibson Posted on June 27th
Let’s talk about bankroll management. But let’s talk about it in a different way than most advice-lenders do. Most articles about bankroll management discuss it from the perspective of a professional player, or at the very least, a semi-pro. More...
By Dan Katz Posted on June 19th
Recently, a thread started on one of the online forums where the original poster asked if people would teach their children poker. More...
By Lee Jones Posted on June 11th
It’s that time of year again. Only scant weeks away, the 2009 World Series of Poker is ready to begin its arduous seven week trek into mid-July. More...
By Earl Burton Posted on May 28th
When playing poker, be it online or live, it is easy to not give it your all. Online, you could be playing multiple tables and not be able to give your full attention to any one game, or you could be distracted by any number of things, such as the world wide web, television, or even your un-potty trained toddler running around naked. More...
By Dan Katz Posted on May 21st
Grinding: making a living playing a lot of online poker, often at low to moderate stakes. You have to admire the irony inherent in its use in the poker world. The “daily grind” has always been used to describe a job. More...
By Lee Jones Posted on May 14th
Meet Mer Brit. A 28-year-old poker pro from Atlanta known as “PeachyMer” online, Brit has been running rampant on the tournament scene in 2009. More...
By Brett Collson Posted on May 7th
As you progress through your poker life, certain paths will be trodden more than others. More people lose than win money at poker; more people experience untold frustration and anguish than those who experience nothing but success. More...
By Carl Sampson Posted on April 30th
The river is where fortunes are won and lost in Texas Hold’em, and it can be a stressful place in any game of live or online poker. All the cards have come out – hopefully you know where you stand, and have at least some idea of where your opponent stands. More...
By Dan Katz Posted on April 28th
We all know what the point of playing poker is. To make money. Well, considering it is a game, the point is also to have fun, but you don’t need to learn strategies about having fun now, do you? You want to make money playing poker. More...
By Dan Katz Posted on April 24th
The Latin American Poker Tour, currently being sponsored by PokerStars, had their LAPT Mar del Plata event start this week in Argentina with a $5,200 Main Event. This prestigious poker tournament was capped at 600 entrants, both internet pros and top live tournament circuit players, with two separate starting days. More...
By Sean Gibson Posted on April 18th
Like many players out in the general poker-playing public I play primarily at two poker rooms, PokerStars and Full Tilt Poker. With both sites offering VIP programs and one offering rakeback (Full Tilt), their traffic dwarfs the competition. More...
By Sean Gibson Posted on April 16th
At the risk of appearing way out of the loop, I will admit I just discovered the new-fangled “Double or Nothing” Sit & Gos on PokerStars. I know that they have been around for a while, but I just haven’t been playing on Stars lately. More...
By Dan Katz Posted on April 14th
For those of you that are not close to Las Vegas and can’t afford the trip to Nevada and the minimum $1,500 buy-ins for the World Series of Poker tournament schedule, there’s good news for you. In 2005 Harrah’s unveiled a brand new series of events, the WSOP Circuit Events, and the schedule has grown to its largest in 2009. More...
By Sean Gibson Posted on April 3rd
As a part time professional poker player my history is very similar to a lot of the fellow early 30-somethings I meet in this industry that play either part time or full time for their income. More...
By Sean Gibson Posted on March 26th
While we poker players know that the Unlawful Internet Gambling Enforcement Act of 2006 is a pile of garbage, it did, to some extent, have its intended effect. As e-wallets and other online poker funding methods started drying up for United States residents, it became harder to get money in and out of poker accounts. More...
By Dan Katz Posted on March 19th
“Fantastic! Another tipping thread is just what this board needs.” On a popular internet poker message board that I frequent, this is a common response when someone poses a question in the non-poker forums about tipping in every day situations. More...
By Dan Katz Posted on March 5th
Full Tilt Poker's FTOPS XI has come to a close, and with it several champions have been born. One of them is Chris “The Universe112” Leveroni, a 19-year-old whiz kid from Amherst, MA, who earned more than $270,000 during the series. More...
By Brett Collson Posted on February 26th
Going through the mistakes that poker players make, it becomes pretty evident that most players seem to be locked in a downward spiral committing the same mistakes over and over again. More...
By Carl Sampson Posted on February 19th
I will be the first to admit that I am no expert at Omaha High-Low. You will never, ever see me sitting in the $1,000/$2,000 game at Full Tilt Poker, not even if I happen to win the Main Event of the World Series of Poker some day. But Omaha High-Low is my favorite game and I haven’t embarrassed myself at the tables. More...
By Dan Katz Posted on February 12th
We have all been there (unless your luck is crazy bad): we flop the nuts and our heart gives a little jump as we start to think about how to bust all the fools who decided it would be a good idea to mix it up with us. More...
By Dan Katz Posted on February 5th
The early part of the 21st century saw hordes of newcomers and experienced poker players flocking to Texas Hold’em, especially the No Limit variety. As this decade has rolled along, though, many have decided to look to other disciplines of poker to test their skills. More...
By Earl Burton Posted on January 29th
If you were to walk into a brick-and-mortar card room in most places in the world, you may not have many options when choosing a table. If you want to play poker then you may have no choice but to play in a full-ring game if the only table that is available already has eight seated players. More...
By Carl Sampson Posted on January 17th
Whether you like it or not, you will at some stage be forced into playing heads up poker. This even applies if you are sitting in a full-ring game with nine or even ten players: imagine you are in the hijack seat in a nine handed cash game and action has been folded around to you; you open raise with Qs-10s and action is then folded around to the big blind, who calls. More...
By Carl Sampson Posted on January 8th
When it began just over six years ago, the World Poker Tour was the only game in town. Sure, the World Series of Poker was showing its usual mild growth, but it was a tournament schedule that didn’t have any draw other than its traditional April-to-May run. More...
By Earl Burton Posted on January 8th
When playing poker, be it online or live, it is easy to not give it your all. Online, you could be playing multiple tables and not be able to give your full attention to any one game, or you could be distracted by any number of things, such as the world wide web, television, or even your un-potty trained toddler running around naked. More...
By Dan Katz Posted on January 2nd
As is pretty much the case every week, I had trouble thinking of a topic for this column. Nowadays, my brain pretty much revolves around poopy diapers, the new addition to my house, and the timing of my next nap. But, now that we’re at the turn of the New Year, I got to thinking about New Year’s resolutions. More...
By Dan Katz Posted on December 26th
Having a big stack at the end stages of a sit & go can be a lot of fun and almost guarantee a victory -- as long as you’re playing optimally. In this article we’ll analyze a situation that you’ll find frequently on the money bubble, but have probably overlooked as a big-stack tyrant. More...
By Brett Collson Posted on December 18th
PokerStars Team Pro Bertrand Grospellier, better known in the online realm as "Elky", has ripped through the live poker circuit in 2008. Grospellier began the year with a victory in the PokerStars Caribbean Adventure EPT Main Event for $2 million and has followed it up with several massive scores all over the world. More...
By Brett Collson Posted on December 11th
The calling station is one of the ultimate “love ‘em or hate ‘em” players you can run into at the poker table: either you treat them like an automated teller machine, or they win hand after frustrating hand against you. More...
By Dan Katz Posted on December 11th
With the preponderance of six-max ring games now dominating the online scene, there doesn’t seem to be an awful lot of theory on full ring games with between eight and ten players. More...
By Carl Sampson Posted on December 4th
It may seem that everyone wants to play Texas Hold ‘Em but, for those that caught the fever at the beginning of this decade, the desire to learn other disciplines of poker has certainly caught up. Omaha Hold ‘Em, with its four cards and multiplicity of options, has been the game of choice in Europe for years and is beginning to build popularity in the rest of the world also. Today, we’re going to look at an offshoot of Omaha, the Omaha Hi/Lo game, and the best tactics to take to the tables for it. More...
By Earl Burton Posted on December 3rd
One of the more common sayings at the poker table is one that has always really annoyed me: "I'd rather be lucky than good." What does "lucky" even mean, anyway? I personally deem it to be a word created by leprechauns and state lottery executives to give people a reason to believe that maybe one day they'll catch their big break. You hit the jackpot you say? You must be the luckiest person in the world! False. More...
By Brett Collson Posted on November 27th
The poker world has had some time now to digest the final table at the World Series of Poker, won by Denmark’s Peter Eastgate over Russia’s Ivan Demidov in a heads up duel that lasted four hours. Now that the crowds have gone and the remaining prize money has been divvied up by “The November Nine,” it is time for the poker community to ask themselves whether the 117 day delay in play at the final table of the Championship Event was worth it or not. More...
By Earl Burton Posted on November 27th
While my daughter took a nap the other day, I worked in my home office with an old episode of “High Stakes Poker” on in the background. In this episode (the first of season four, for those who are interested), the players agreed that anyone who wins a hand with 2-7 will receive $500 from each player at the table. More...
By Dan Katz Posted on November 19th
Burkholder took some time with Poker News Daily to go over a hand he played with Adam "Roothlus" Levy during his WCOOP victory. Levy is a well-respected online player (also ranked on PocketFives) who recently made a deep run in the 2008 World Series of Poker Main Event. With 12 players remaining in the tournament, their table also featured online stars Greg "DuckU" Hobson and Thayer "Thay3r" Rasmussen. More...
By Brett Collson Posted on November 13th
There is one kind of player that I seem to have success against in the heads-up portion of a tournament: the massive overbettor. This type of player is super-aggressive post-flop with any sort of decent, yet not monster, hand. Really, unless the board looks ultra-scary, he is not likely to take his foot off the gas once he becomes the aggressor. More...
By Dan Katz Posted on November 12th
The key to using the Independent Chip Model (ICM) is making choices that have a positive expectation over time. In Part One, we went over the calculation of a player's current chip stack as a dollar value. Now we can move forward and make decisions based on that information. More...
By Brett Collson Posted on November 7th
One of the most difficult decisions in the game of poker is what to do with small pocket pairs. While they are a pocket pair – and in this case we are considering pocket deuces through pocket sixes – and are ahead of every hand but a higher pair, at the end of the five card board they can be easily run down. Thus, the decision to play and how to play these hands can be problematic. More...
By Earl Burton Posted on November 4th
The Independent Chip Model (ICM) is a game theory application that has become essential in sit-and-gos. It is best defined as a way to calculate your equity in relation to the prize pool based on the stack sizes of the remaining players in the tournament. Simply put, ICM is a way of analyzing how much your current chip stack is worth as a dollar value. More...
By Brett Collson Posted on October 31st
One of the most common lines I heard uttered by players, almost exclusively amateurs, was, “I’m folding everything until I make the money. Even pocket Aces.” Most people who say this are not serious, but every year, without fail, I hear about someone who actually did fold Aces pre-flop and showed them to the table to prove it. The question that inevitably comes up after something like this is, “Is it ever reasonable to fold pocket Aces pre-flop?” More...
By Dan Katz Posted on October 28th
Adam "Roothlus" Levy is a professional poker player from Orlando, Florida with well over $1 million in online tournament earnings. But like many of his internet cronies, Levy has made a smooth transition to live poker and his results certainly back up the argument that the online crowd has some serious game. More...
By Brett Collson Posted on October 22nd
One of the greatest benefits of playing online poker is that you are able to play as many tables as you want to at the same time. This allows you to get in significantly more hands per hour than was ever possible before, increasing your overall hourly win rate. More...
By Chris Kennedy Posted on October 21st
Football season is in full swing (well, as I am writing this it is – if it is late spring as you, yourself, are reading this, then just bear with me) and anyone who follows the game knows the importance of an offensive line to a team’s offense: the linemen protect the quarterback, taking on charging defenders to keep him from getting pummeled, and they also open holes for the primary running back, helping him get to the end zone. In poker, there is a betting strategy that plays a similar role to that of the offensive line: the blocking bet. More...
By Dan Katz Posted on October 16th
One of my favorite things about online poker is the “raise” button. It is so convenient, right there, big and bold, ready to be clicked. Despite my love for it, however, I almost never use it in No Limit Hold’em games. More...
By Dan Katz Posted on October 9th
Coming off his bracelet win in the World Series of Poker $1,500 Limit Hold’em Shootout, Matt “mattg1983” Graham went on a tear toward the end of the summer of 2008. He picked up wins in the $33 rebuy on Full Tilt for more than $6,000 and the star-studded $215 Sunday Second Chance on Pokerstars for $53,330. Then on August 5th, Graham won the $109 rebuy on Pokerstars for $38,390. More...
By Brett Collson Posted on October 8th
Like a tiny snowball causing a giant avalanche, making a small mistake while playing poker can lead to disastrous consequences. This is especially true while playing no-limit Texas Hold’em. The ability to put your entire stack on the line at any time greatly increases the impact that a single mistake can make. The earlier in a hand that you make a mistake, the more time that mistake has to snowball into an avalanche of bankroll destruction. More...
By Chris Kennedy Posted on September 29th
What is Omaha and how do you play it? With Hold’em tables overflowing with players, many new players are heading over to the Omaha games. So with that in mind, here is a guide for getting started at Omaha and making sense of Omaha Hi-Lo as well. More...
By Nick Laurrell Posted on September 25th
Imagine the following scenario: you are on the bubble in the World Series of Poker Main Event and, for some reason, you let your chip stack get so low that you are now all-in in the big blind. More...
By Dan Katz Posted on September 17th
Scott "dorinvandy" Dorin goes over a crucial hand at the final table of his WCOOP victory. With an overwhelming chip lead, he got involved in a pot with a well known pro that proved to be "the" hand of the tournament. More...
By Brett Collson Posted on September 11th
One thing many players forget is that some of the differences between the different online poker software platforms, subtle and otherwise, can really throw you for a loop when starting out at a new place: at best, they are annoying; at worst, they can actually lose you money. More...
By Dan Katz Posted on September 11th
Paying attention to what goes on around you, both in live and online tables, will give you an edge over careless and unattentive players. More...
By Chris Kennedy Posted on August 22nd
Flaming others at the poker table can actually reduce your profitability. So don't get mad - get even. More...
By Adam Small Posted on August 11th
A common mistake that many poker players make is that they are too passive. This isn’t to say that you should become an over aggressive maniac, but there is a fine balance that needs to be reached. More...
By Chris Kennedy Posted on August 5th
Be it online or live, how you act at the table can and will have a direct impact on your overall win rate. More...
By Chris Kennedy Posted on July 15th
A great benefit of playing poker online is that you are in complete control of where, when, and how you play. Make sure it helps you play your A game. More...
By Chris Kennedy Posted on June 27th
Almost every live poker game in the world has at least a few players that are known regulars in that game. This is how to take the most advantage of the seasoned regulars through your table image. More...
By Adam Small Posted on June 27th
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