Rarely do we read about Angle Shooting. Have you ever been its victim? You may not have realized it. Angle Shooting can be very costly. Most likely, being an honorable person, you would never use it. Angle Shooting is usually defined as using unethical, deceptive tactics to take advantage of your opponents. It is closely […]
As it is written in the Bible, “To everything there is a season, and a time to every purpose under the heaven.” This includes “a time to get, and a time to lose; a time to keep, and a time to cast away.” So, too, it is in the game of poker. It had been […]
Recently a good friend with whom I serve on the Board of Directors of an engineering society gave me a box full of old Poker Digest magazines dating back to 1998. The publication was later sold and is no longer in business. A number of the issues included columns that I had written. My photo […]
Recently, I wrote a column that explained that while you cannot control luck, you can influence it to favor you. I recognize that playing poker is a matter of probability — chance in a mathematical sense. The probability of winning will increase when you start with a strong hand vs. a weaker one. Playing Texas […]
You may recall in the Feb. 19 issue of Gaming Today, I wrote about fellow columnist Elliott Frome’s advice to “Scout out paytables before sitting to play” games in casinos. While you cannot beat the casinos, some do pay better than others. This applies to all casino games including poker. Some poker rooms have more to […]
Poker has a unique language all of its own. How would we communicate without the special poker terms? When I attempted to list them, before I finished the task, I had counted well over 100 terms that we use on a more or less regular basis. Some are used so often that we just accept […]
