Lessons Learned at the Poker Table
Is there a writer who ever played this game and hasn’t observed that poker’s a metaphor for life? A metaphor for life! If true, there should be important life lessons …
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Aggressive Poker Play
A philosopher by inclination and poker player by choice, Dennis Jones has often been quoted as saying: “I’d rather ask forgiveness than permission.” It’s a terrific expression – an updated …
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Quite a few poker players have asked me about playing in very loose, aggressive games. Many, it seems, are not very fond of them – believing instead that moderate, or …
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Taking Advantage of your Opponents’ Tendencies
Gems of wisdom often pop up in the most unlikely places – even clichés. Football coaches, quite possibly the singularly most cliché-ridden group you could ever hope to find – …
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Play Winning Poker – Part 4
In Part 3 of this series we looked at recurring poker decisions, as well as choices that are less commonly encountered, but are costly when a wrong decision is made. …
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Playing Winning Poker: Part 3
In Part 2 we discussed whether strategic knowledge by itself was enough to assure winning play at the poker tables, and how the information explosion has affected poker. We also …
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