Every year, on the Fourth of July, your friends and neighbors gather in your well-provisioned back yard to enjoy a warm afternoon of laughter and food. Unless, of course, the sky turns into water and falls, in which case your 40 guests hustle into the house and gaze through your windows at the downpour. Which
“If you ask for a dealer-button change, you might be tilting.” “If you make a short buy with $1 bills, you might be tilting.” “If you decide to check-raise that lag fool one more time because there’s no way he can have it *again*%@!&!!, you might
Ever heard of Jeff Foxworthy? He’s a comedian who did a bit called, “You might be a redneck if…” In his skit, he fires off one-liners, like this one here: “If you cut your grass and find a car, you might be a redneck.” Here’s another: “If you’ve ever been too drunk to fish, you
Dear reader: In this Painless Poker excerpt, I propose an idea to the characters at the Painless Poker Clinic, and we bat it around. “You know what?” I said. “Let’s change things up and talk about betting strategy.” I leaped up and to the chalkboard. “At last,” Alf said, and Charlie rubbed his hands. “Keep in
When you lose a soul-crushing pot, your mind is like a boat. A boat on a lake. A lake that just had an island-sized boulder dropped in it. The splash from the boulder was huge, and now you are being tossed about harshly by the waves. Understandably, you think the problem is the boulder. You
The Happy Loser: In Poker and In Trading, a Big Loss Can Be a Big Win (This article first appeared at CNBC.com) I have played one million hands of live poker, most of them during my 17 years as a full-time grinder. The strategic and metaphorical commonalities between poker and trading are many,
For a beginning player, it’s good to talk about betting strategy at the table because there is much valuable information to be learned from the experienced players who are willing to divulge their thinking. Eventually though, as a player gains experience, the negative EV of divulging will exceed the small gains in knowledge that come
I looked up “tapping the glass” online and the first two definitions I saw were both good. From Pokerdictionary.net: “In poker, the saying ‘Tap the glass’ refers to telling weaker players at the table about their bad play, to vent, and to educate them in the process.” And from Flopturnriver.com: “Tapping the Glass is a
