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Poker starting hands - time for a rethink?
There's a reason why Googling "starting hands" throws up 24,500,000 entries.After all, as Julie Andrews observed, "Let's start at the very beginning. That's a very good place to start."And I'm struggling to pick any holes in this article by Matt Pusa...
Beating low-limit sit and gos
Finally, an online article on tournament poker strategy that isn't just a few sketchy basics. I like this bit in particular, which adds a little finesse to the continuation bet (c-bet) theory..."Whenever you see a flop against 2 or more players, you ...
Poker betting - the biggest tell
You can surpress every nervous twitch and racing pulse in your body but it's all for nothing if a poker bet from straight out of left field blows your hand's cover.That's the message in this article, which, I'm assuming from its final paragraph, borr...
That time already? Inside Poker's WSOP how-to guide
Nice effort by Inside Poker magazine this month, avoiding all the tired old stuff in building up for the World Series of Poker (are we still banned from saying that?) and instead providing an everything-you-need-to-know guide for those planning an as...
Poker tournaments - complacency is chip leader when you first make the money
Image via WikipediaInterviewing a soccer player about reaching a cup final some years ago, I was given a lesson in complacency that I've never forgotten.He'd played in a such a showcase occasion in his younger days, he told me. "I thought that becaus...
Gambling - why do I think the backdrop may outdo the acting?
"A man goes on a desperate journey through the Las Vegas night in search of a woman who has disappeared. At the same time, he prepares to make an extraordinary wager that he hopes will alter his life. GAMBLING is a dark, sensuous story of risk, love...
Old Vegas revisited - still life from Mars
I don't go a bundle for modern art drawings but I'd hang Robert Mars' representation of 'old Vegas' on my wall. It's part of a series depicting urban fragments of America's '50s and '60s. He explains it on his website"My work is a chronicle of Americ...
Vegas mafia never ran city
Image via WikipediaBravely tackling one of Sin City's most sacred cows, Lesley Niño Fidance - a student at the Boyd School of Law - insists that the Mob never ran Vegas, in this this presentation to the loftily-named Gaming Research Colloquium.While...
Best Vegas movies
A little short on actual opinion, 21 of the Most Badass Films Set in Las Vegas made me curious as to which Las Vegas movies register most with their audience.Googling 'best Vegas movies', I was left with two pages of links and have totted up votes ba...
Blackjack no longer the floating game in Vegas
Taken as I was with this ad for your very own floating blackjack table, I was rather hoping to find a thriving culture for floating games when I delved deeper into the phenomenon.After all, gambling in the shallow end of a swimming pool is something ...
Forget dogs, Vegas wants whales
Image via WikipediaHaving just returned one haggard Christmas tree to the attic, after our kittens repeatedly set upon it like Vikings on a peasant town, I'm hyper-sensitive to recipes for disaster where pets are concerned.Dogs and Vegas seem to fit ...
Highlights of your Vegas Christmas
Because chips with everything isn't good for you, I've been looking at what diversions are on offer for Christmas in Las Vegas 2008, as well as at some of the world's other gambling fleshpots."For decades, Christmas in Las Vegas was a silent night, i...
World Series of Poker fallout
Image via Wikipedia While serious critics hail the WSOP Final Table pause as a success, irreverent sports site Epic Carnival asks the Top 10 World Series of Poker questions that matter.The taxman, meanwhile, wins regardless...Related articles by Zem...
Prostitutes won't take recession lying down
Having touched before on the question of whether Las Vegas fears a recession, I believe I may have the definitive answer. There has to be some kind of meltdown in the air when even the world's oldest profession is introducing a customer loyalty prog...
Between Godliness and poker, comes Jewish escapology
At a time when public places seem to be getting busted right, left and centre for hosting poker, not even the story of a Leeds rabbi forced to protest the innocence of "a Las Vegas-style night of entertainment for young adults" can raise much of an ...
Poker Players and Loose Women Permitted Here
Every theme bar entrepreneur should be made to read this piece about the Pioneer Saloon in Goodsprings, Nevada, (travel 25 miles south-west of Las Vegas) if only in the hope that the penny might finally drop."The sense of decorum at this town's 95-ye...
Another bad rap for AK in a poker context
[PLEASE VOTE NOW ON THE FUTURE DIRECTION OF THIS BLOG]...................................................................No matter how you play it, AK gets you in all sorts of trouble, especially when it's followed by 47:After he was stopped by poli...
End of the line - just about everywhere...
Maybe I won't live long enough to see the Second Coming, or the edge of the universe but I will be able to say this: I saw the day when Calvin Ayre finally grew shy of publicity.I don't know where to start with this story, whether it's the neat kick ...
Oh, how casinos hate a fair fight
Forget a woman scorned. If you want to see real fury in action, spend some time with a businessman who can't get his own way.No doubt Las Vegas Sands CEO William Weidner schmoozed with the best of them while there was still a chance of turning parts ...
Only the bitterness regenerates in Asia's Vegas
Now that UK Prime Minister Gordon Brown has reiterated his disinterest in a super-casino licence being granted to the fast-fading northern England resort of Blackpool, no doubt there will be those who reiterate their view that the Scotsman is gambli...
OJ Simpson and the death of a slogan
Not content with trashing his own legend, OJ Simpson's latest brush with the law may well spell the end for one of the most famous catch-phrases in gambling. Not good news, when you consider what may replace it:"The Las Vegas Convention and Visitors...
