If it’s good Enough for You
I was playing $1 8/5 Bonus Five Play in the Slot Emporium at the Palms. The machine is right next to the set of restrooms adjacent to the poker room, so whenever I play there lots of people see me on their way to and from the facilities. A player I knew, Henry, saw me [...]
Decide To Play Great Poker
Decide to Play Great Poker: A Strategy Guide to No-limit Texas Hold Em is a new book by Annie Duke, and John Vorhaus. Annie and John have a light conversational style that makes this a fun read. It is geared to the beginning and intermediate player. This is not a “set of problems” book, like the books [...]
A Look at Kill Phil
The goal of the book Kill Phil is to allow novice players to have a chance playing in No Limit Texas Hold’Em tournaments. This is done by moving “all in” more frequently than “normal” players do and force the smart players to make a guess for their tournament lives. Most strong players want to avoid [...]
A Look at The House Advantage
Jeffrey Ma is the real-life inspiration behind the novel Bringing Down the House and the movie 21, both of which tell the story of the MIT Blackjack team. Since retiring from blackjack, Ma has worked as an options trader and an advisor to professional sports teams. The House Advantage represents Ma’s advice as to how [...]
A Review of One of a Kind
One of the pleasures/responsibilities of hosting a radio show where gaming authors are interviewed is that I get to read some of the author’s work before the broadcast. When we scheduled Nolan Dalla, media director of Harrah’s World Series of Poker, it was to talk about the WSOP and not about his book, One of [...]
Good Play or Bad?
Mid-week in early May, I received an email from the Palms talking about a $15,000 Rock and Win series of drawings the following Sunday, May 15. There would be five drawings, every two hours beginning at 11 a.m., where the prize structure was first: $750; second and third: $500; third through tenth: $250 down to [...]
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