The Surly Poker Gnome

Poker is a funny game, and by funny, I mean it's swingy. I started out this month on a +$5000 run, then went down to -$2,000, turned tha...

If you want your opponent to believe that you have the poker hand you're representing, your betting needs to be consistent whether you a...

My head hit the pillow around 1 a.m. early Sunday morning. Finally, sweet oblivious rest. Earlier, I had woken up optimistic about a product...

"If you’re going to call on the river, you might as well raise on the turn—this is a fundamental concept in pot-limit and no-l...

After feeling a little off my hold 'em game the last couple of days, I've decided to take up pot limit Omaha Hi. So far, over a smal...

UPDATE: It's done. Neteller has stopped allowing U.S. customers to transfer money to gambling sites, effective immediately. I'm not ...

Objectively, there's no doubt that under fair conditions with a random shuffle, each hand is an individual event. Cards have no memory. ...

"In my experience, there's no such thing as luck." -- Obi-Wan Kenobi ___ "Luck in any card game is cyclical -- it comes a...

"24" is a fun show, but just about every new season contains repetitive elements from previous episodes. Here are some plot device...

I got a question asking how successful I have been in integrating the Cardrunners offense into my game. Specifically, was I able to transiti...

I don't know what's wrong with my game exactly, but it's gone to shit over the last few days. I've been calling river bets t...

What would happen if 1,000,000 people each chose a pixel on a 1000 X 1000 grid, named it, and then tried to create a collaborative image? I ...

Andy Bellin's "Poker Nation" won't teach you how to play AK from the blinds, but it will give you a sense of what the pok...

My broad goals for 2007 are simple: keep playing NL cash games, keep moving up in limits and make bundles of cash. Now that I've been pl...

I spent more than a year and a half trying to learn limit hold em and move up to higher stakes. From my initial foray into the 2/4 limit wat...

One year ago, I was preparing to move to Hawaii and start a new job. I didn't know what I should do with my poker game, although I was c...

After drinking two rum and cokes, a glass of wine, a Guinness and some English beer that I don't know the name of, I got home and turned...

There are many sites that provide information about poker odds, but none provides a comprehensive single source for basic odds knowledge in ...

I haven't posted in a few days, not for lack of things to write about, but more because I had been winning. Winning is great and all, bu...

I cashed out at the Bellagio after hitting my straight flush and then headed to the Mirage for some limit games. "Try limit, it's f...