Beyond the Numbers | I still can’t believe I have cashed in poker tournaments every year for fifty years. When you make poker your life for over half a century, you make it into a very exclusive club. I have to admit, playing poker for a living has taken a toll...
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Wise Kracks | Over the last few weeks, I have played some poker, which is something I rarely do. I find poker to be very profitable when the WSOP is in town, as most sharps do. However, my problem is I cannot stand the poker environment for any length of time.
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Heavenly Poker | There is a significant cost to play poker in casinos and cardrooms. You cannot fault the casino; it has substantial expenses and must make a profit to stay in business. If you won’t accept these costs, you could seek a home game – as do many recreational players. Your choice.
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Poker by George | Every poker player develops an image. It is determined by how you play the hands dealt to you, which your opponents at the table can readily identify: tight or loose; passive or aggressive; and/or deceptive (likely to bluff.).
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Gaming Insider | Poker pro Doyle Brunson was not intent on being branded as a legend when he arrived in Las Vegas from Texas nearly fifty years ago. He was merely interested in finding some good poker action.
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Winning Strategies | Just over two months to go until National Video Poker Day (Sept. 6 aka 9/6). We’ve got a lot to cover between now and then. The past few weeks, I’ve covered some of how the strategy for video poker is developed, which all culminated in the creation of a strategy table.
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Heavenly Poker | A well-experienced poker player named Will responded to my column, “Top this baddie!” in the June 5 issue of GamingToday.
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Poker by George | Today, I want to reward my loyal readers by sharing “the secret” to Winning at the poker table: Don’t Lose. In a few words, the idea is simply to minimize the number of hands – and reduce the pot size – that you lose.
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Heavenly Poker | Just before or upon being seated at the poker table, players must buy chips in order to participate in the game.
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Poker by George | This is Part II of our series on how to make your winning hands more profitable – how to build that pot as big as possible.
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The 49th Annual World Series of Poker still rolls on with 78 Official Gold Bracelet Events.
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Winning Strategies | Last week, I talked about how for every deal there are 32 ways to play the hand, ranging from holding all five cards to discarding all five. While most decisions are obvious, many are far less so.
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Poker Profiles | This month we chatted with Sal Ervolino, the poker room manager at Westgate Las Vegas Resort Casino. They have a beautiful six table room nestled away in the world famous SuperBook.
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Heavenly Poker | Making a full-house in poker is quite rare. Can you imagine a hand where two players each have a full-house? I saw an account of that in a recent gaming article describing such a hand in a hold’em Tournament Hand Matchup game.
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Poker by George | Playing Texas hold’em – or any other poker game – undoubtedly your objective is to win as many chips as possible. Winning more than your fair share of the hands is fine, but bigger pots are so much better.
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Poker by George | Poker columnist Ed Miller wrote a recent piece called “Specialize Your Game” and it led me to give serious thought to this subject, which I now share with my readers. Going one step further, I offer my own perspective on specializing when you play poker.
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Heavenly Poker | If you play much poker, undoubtedly you have experienced (suffered?) at least one “bad beat.” It’s when you have a great hand but lose to an opponent who drew with few outs – and caught it. As they say, your opponent “drew out” on you.
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Westgate poker promotions for the month of June
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The 2018 edition of the iconic World Series of Poker opens this week in Las Vegas at the Rio All-Suite Hotel and Casino. The tournament is highlighted by 78 high-stakes card events expected to draw thousands of players and break attendance records.
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Poker Profiles | The Golden Nugget Las Vegas Hotel and Casino kicks off the 11th annual Grand Poker Series today, May 29. The Series runs through July 3. We interviewed Andy Rich, the Golden Nugget’s poker room manager about the event and more.
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SLS hotel-casino assuming control of W…The W hotel brand is leaving the Las Vegas Strip. The SLS casino-hotel on Wednesday announced it will assume control of the W Las Vegas, which currently occupies one of the property’s three towers.
Pro-casino group raises $1M in July…An organization working to legalize casinos in Arkansas says it raised more than $1 million last month from two American Indian tribes in neighboring Oklahoma.
First casino licensed for sports…Hollywood Casino in Charles Town is the first casino licensed to offer sports betting in West Virginia. The West Virginia Lottery Commission made the announcement Monday. The casino expects to start accepting bets Sept. 1.
NASCAR is on its way to Las Vegas for…NASCAR is on its way, Sept. 13 thru Sept. 16, to the “Entertainment Capital of the World,” Las Vegas, with a series of “fan-centric” events to promote the South Point 400, this year’s kick off event for the Monster Energy NASCAR Cup Series Playoffs.
Fremont Street Experience will be home…The Fremont Street Experience in Downtown Las Vegas will soon be home to the largest single video screen in the world. The upgraded canopy will deliver a screen that is up to seven times brighter than the original and four times sharper.
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