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Playing Tight

The game of poker is special because of all of the different ways you can approach the game. Each player will have a specific style and strategy but you can still safely compartmentalise styles into two distinct fields: Loose and tight. To play a tight style means that you open up the betting with a [...]

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Posted on December 16, 2011 by Thomas | Filed Under Poker
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Dempsey wins World Tour event

Englishman James Dempsey secured a memorable title this weekend as he won the World Poker Tour’s Doyle Brunson Five Diamond World Poker Classic Sunday at Bellagio. It was an incredible day for him. Not only for the pride of winning, but for the rather significant prize money of $821,612. As if beating over 400 poker [...]

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Posted on December 14, 2011 by Guest Blogger | Filed Under Poker
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World Series of Poker, Europe, Bracelet Goes to New Yorker, Elio Fox, Wins Nearly $2 Million

It was an awesome match, for those who didn’t see it. And the fourth bracelet, at the conclusion of the main event, went to a New Yorker, Elio Fox. He beat out a record field of 592 in the €10,000 buy-in main event to take home the title, his first bracelet, and the top prize of [...]

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Posted on October 23, 2011 by doclotto | Filed Under Analysis, Poker, Poker Players, Tournaments
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James Bord: US poker players are less skilled

2010 World Series of Poker Europe Main Event champion James Bord has moved to rattle a few US feathers by saying that American poker players are not as skilled as others across the world. The 30-year-old Brit – who won £830,401 by winning the World series event last year – believes that European poker players are [...]

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Posted on October 18, 2011 by Guest Blogger | Filed Under Poker
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Full Tilt Poker and Others Fighting Back; Will U.S. Legalize Online Gambling?

Did you see the article printed recently in the NY Times about online gambling. Very, very interesting. The story is about Jesus Ferguson and Howard Lederer, founders of Full Tilt Poker…which until they were busted by the U.S. FBI, was the gambling palace of choice on the web for millions of players. As the years [...]

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Posted on October 10, 2011 by doclotto | Filed Under Legal, Online Casino, Online Poker, Poker
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Lawyers to Judge: Online Poker isn’t Really Gambling … and Here’s Why…

I don’t know if you saw this item in the news … but I find it kind of interesting that defense lawyers for a Utah banker and a businessman indicted on gambling charges are attempting to convince a judge that online poker isn’t really gambling. The argument is aimed at crippling a prosecution that seeks to [...]

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Posted on October 5, 2011 by doclotto | Filed Under Analysis, Poker, Politics
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Californians Speak: Gimme (Legal) Online Poker

Seems like Californians are for online poker. If it would help bring more revenue for the cash-starved state. The Field Poll (which I’ve never heard of, I must confess) released one of the first public indications of voter sentiment on an issue that has consumed Capitol negotiations without producing a deal. Fifty-three percent of registered voters [...]

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Posted on September 26, 2011 by doclotto | Filed Under Analysis, Online Poker, Philosophy, Poker, Politics
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