by htotheizzo | Mar 25, 2018 | Uncategorized
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...
by htotheizzo | Jan 15, 2018 | Uncategorized
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...
by htotheizzo | Jan 2, 2018 | Uncategorized
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 source of...
by htotheizzo | Nov 27, 2017 | Uncategorized
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...
by htotheizzo | Sep 7, 2017 | Uncategorized
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...
by htotheizzo | Aug 31, 2016 | Uncategorized
The mindset instilled in serious poker players from the early days of the poker boom was to work on improving your hourly rate. This could be done by simply trying to play better at your current stakes, or by beating a higher stakes game. In addition, you would work...