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With a few minutes still left until break, Scotty Nguyen stood up from his table at the $5,000 6-Max Pot-Limit Omaha and headed toward the back of the Amazon Rio.…

If there’s money up for grabs, someone’s trying to get it. And few places have as much money flowing around as Las Vegas. There are a number of movies about…

Philipp Gruissem has been at the forefront of the sudden German dominance of the super high-roller poker scene, but he’s in it for more than just money. Or rather Gruissem…

At just 24 years old Mike “Timex” McDonald has played out an entire arc as a professional poker player. The Waterloo-native was a champion on the European Poker Tour before…

Poker is a game of decisions. And regardless of whether you win or lose the pot you’re currently in, every time you make a less-than-optimal decision – aka a “mistake”…

In my reading of the poker literature I’ve noticed that most discussions of beginner poker strategy focus on pre-flop action. This is understandable and sensible. Solid pre-flop strategy avoids problems…

Fancy Play Syndrome, or FPS, is used to describe an overly creative way of playing a hand when a straightforward approach would win you a lot more chips. A syndrome…

Alright, I know. That’s one of the hoariest, most chewed over questions ever asked. But, well, you know, it’s also one that really hasn’t received a proper analysis. It’s been…

Regardless of your playing style, success in Pot Limit Omaha depends largely on the starting hands you choose to play. Because you’re dealt twice as many cards as in Hold’em,…

I know, I know. These are supposed to be articles on poker and the psychology thereof. But a couple of instalments back we had an extended discussion on the role…

Even though it would be nice to flop the nuts in every hand, in reality you’ll come up short more often than not. Because the vast majority of hands you’ll…

When I first started playing poker the question of confidence never crossed my mind — nor for that matter anyone else’s. We played by just playing. If we were in…