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Game Theory is the study of possible strategies and the most favorable subsequent action. The newest wrinkle is Game Theory Optimal (GTO) or Solver.  It is a computer program digesting…

As you probably know, a zombie is a person who has died and come back to life.  The equivalent in poker is when a tournament structure allows someone who has…

I recently played in a Hold ‘em home game with an interesting structure.  It starts as a tournament with blinds increasing after each round.  As players are knocked out, a…

In 2003, Chris Moneymaker, an amateur player, won the World Series of Poker, besting 838 entrants.  His payoff was $2.5 million dollars.  He set off a poker boom.  Moneymaker’s win…

In recent years, the c-bet (short for continuation bet) has been pretty much the favored action in No Limit Hold ‘Em.  What is it? It’s a followup bet after the…

I’ve got a couple of issues relating to card counts and rankings.  Are there really only 52 cards in a standard deck?  Sure, four each of Aces through Kings equal…

Although the poker boom may have leveled out, there’s still a lot of action and prize money sloshing around.  Here is the list of top tournament winners in 2018:  …

Apparently, Pot Limit Omaha (PLO) is currently the hot game on the pro circuit.  For me, there is enough of a challenge determining good hands in Omaha without the overlay…

To paraphrase Phil Helmuth’s famous quote,  “If luck wasn’t involved, I would win every time.”  To unwrap it a bit, probability theory’s law of large numbers tells us that when…

2018 was a good poker year for me.  Interestingly, my tournament play was more profitable than cash games.  Musing over the results, the reason appeared to be related to playing…