Brian Townsend Still Down Huge in 2010

Brian Townsend, a.k.a sbrugby, has had a disastrous year at the tables and the bad news keeps on coming. The poker instructor for CardRunners is now down, for the year, an impressive $2.8 million which completely wipes out all his profit from last year which was estimated at $2.4 million. The news is particularly grim [...]

Daniel Tzvetkoff , Founder of Intabill, Faces 75 Years in Prison

Daniel Tzvetkoff of Australia is the founder of the online payment processor Intabill. On the 16th of April, Tzvetkoff was arrested in Las Vegas, Nevada and was charged with a number of felonies including bank fraud, money laundering, and processing illegal internet gambling transactions. Tzvetkoff, 27, has been charged with allegedly processing over $500 million [...]

Poker Strategy – Q&A with Daniel Negreanu – How do you put players on specific hands

Folding an Overpair

One thing that seems to happen with far too much regularity is players willing to throw away their entire stack of chips on an overpair. Many players from novices to moderately successful players will overplay an overpair and will often end up with nothing but a short stack and tilting rage. What they do not [...]

Chris Moneymaker

Poker is one of the most popular gambling games and although it is fun, few people have actually managed to enter in the records of some of the greatest poker players of all times. Compared to the number of people who play poker, the number of those great players of all times is very low [...]

Using a Scare Card to Your Advantage

Regardless of the level of game you are playing when playing poker, bluffing is a skill that will get you chips if you’re good at it or cost you chips if you are bad at it. In fact, some of the most successful poker players like Sammy Farha using bluffing extensively in their play. Some [...]

Understanding The Basics of Omaha

As a new player to most poker games, learning a list of starting hands is a pretty good way to start yourself out on the right path. This is doubly true for a game like Omaha. Omaha is a more complex form of poker when compared to Texas Hold’em and it is extremely easy to [...]

Understanding the Blocking Bet

One concept that is not understood but a larger number of poker players is the idea known as the blocking bet. A player that thinks they will most likely have the best hand after the river card but are not certain uses a blocking bet. Blocking bets are usually made when you are in the [...]

3-betting as the Aggressor

We will first discuss playing 3-bet pots as the aggressor. You want to do most of your 3-betting in position (from the Cut-Off or BTN) because you will have position for the rest of the hand. This allows you to play your hands profitably, as well as widen the range of hands you can 3-bet [...]