That grandiose title is going to need some quick clarifications for an understandably skeptical reader. First and foremost, this blog post is a book review of poker pro Dylan Linde’s new book, 'Mastering Mixed Games: Winning Strategies for Draw, Stud and...

    Maybe you once experienced a big change in your life that had you stressed out but turned out just fine in the end? Maybe it turned out even better than before. Perhaps a job or career change, or perhaps you had to move to a different school, town,...

  You know what I'm talking about right? Players coming to a cash game straight from a recent bust out of a tournament often don't have their head in the right place. Even if they aren't tilted it is hard to make the adjustments necessary. Here's a few things...

  The Seattle area has seen a lot of changes in the poker scene in the last year or so. The trend has been the increased dominance of the smaller, non-tribal rooms at the expense of the tribal poker rooms. A few factors have conspired to make it this way. The...

  Not to brag but I crush my wife at rock paper scissors. Somehow I pick up on her patterns and can employ an exploitative strategy that is +EV. So when my six year old wanted to play I imagined I would have similar success. I mean he's six, wtf does he know? To...

  The 50th World Series of Poker is around the corner so it's time to start planning. I know some of you are regular attendees but some of you may think it's not for you. You are wrong. If you love poker then you should go, it's as simple as that. I think the...

  Live it up, we might be the last poker generation. Poker in one form or another has been played for a couple centuries. Maybe you assume it will last forever? There is a realistic case to be made that the game won't outlast our lifetimes. You guys know the...

  It might seem contradictory to some but poker players are often quite frugal. We understand that you can flip for a $2000 pot but still get aggravated by $10 parking fees. If this sounds like you, here are a few of the ways I've nitted it up at the WSOP in the...

  You know the old joke about the two campers who come across a scary looking bear. One guy starts putting on his sneakers. The other guy says, "What are you doing? You can't outrun a bear". To which the first guy replies, "I don't need to outrun the bear. I just...

  We all play poker right? So who gets to decide who is a poker pro and what that even means? In my first few years of making my living exclusively from poker I was a bit embarrassed to tell people I was a poker pro but I made a point of being open about my...

  Exactly ten years ago (the height of the poker boom) I decided to participate in the poker dream by flying to the Caribbean island of St Kitts for a series of poker tournaments. I'd won entry online, all expenses paid. Those opportunities were a dime a dozen...

Since my last blog post was about playing in the $10k WSOP main event, I thought today we'd take a look at the other end of the spectrum. Is there anything you can learn from 25 cent poker? The answer may surprise you. Low stakes "fast fold" online poker is very...