08 March 2010

» Leatherass – Treating Poker like a Business

“You don’t think that’s work what he does? Grinding it out on his fuckin’ leather ass? No thank you.” – Worm, Rounders.

03 February 2010

» Belgium Poker Championships

Last year a few friends and I went over to Belgium by the Eurostar (which worked properly then) and played in the €1,500 entry Belgium Poker Championship – a fantastic 800-odd-player event with a remarkably slow structure.

06 January 2010

» Licked in Latvia

After winning a package on Betsafe Poker, I was off to Latvia for my first ever tournament in that part of the world, and I have to say the organisation of the event was superb, as was the hotel and the tournament venue, Casino Royale.

10 November 2009

» Never Mind the Bollocks

Very often, the most potent threat to a poker player’s poker playing life comes from sources completely unrelated to the game of poker itself.

28 October 2009

» Stone cold bluff

This time I'll talk about another bluff that I made at the EPT Grand Final in Monte Carlo. Blinds are at 3k/6k and an aggressive American player opens with a raise of 15,500 two seats from the button. Everyone folds and I call from the big blind with K-7 offsuit. It's a marginal call but I'm getting good pot odds with the antes in play. This is a really active player, so I think I can call here when we both have approximately 200,000 behind.

26 October 2009

» Creative Thinking

If you are a winning player, you play more hands and you will make more money. Simple, right? Having just come back from a hectic schedule of tournaments in Vegas with the promise of fame and fortune (I came 549th in the Main Event, am I famous now?), I felt that I needed to get back to the grind and put more time in online.

15 October 2009

» Piling on the Pressure

I find a lot of value in piling pressure on your opponents in the early stages of tournaments when the blinds are small and most people are playing way too tight, because that’s when people are looking to avoid pressure.

05 October 2009

» Battling Variance

For the past few years I’ve been very focused on staying fit in order to improve my concentration levels and enhance my willingness to win. One of the most important things in poker is what people sometimes refer to as the “winning spirit”, but what it comes down to is whether you feel capable of winning.

28 September 2009

» Don’t be a Wildebeest!

It took The Lord six days to create the earth and after that he needed a day of rest, so I imagine that he was admitted to Heaven’s equivalent of The Priory after arranging the remarkable set of circumstances that resulted in Jerry Yang's victory in the WSOP Main Event.

03 September 2009

» Bluffing durrrr on the River

Even a crazy mistimed bluff against one of the world's best players can reap rewards, says our new strategy writer, high stakes grand master Sami “larsluzak” Kelopouro.