March 2011 - Bloggers
These Jokers Are Ruining the Game!
"To play poker with a joker is a lower-class game." Such was the lesson taught to young John Lukacs by his mother in Hungary in the 1930s. Lukacs tells of his early poker-playing days in...
On Poker's Image
A convergence of recent experiences and events got me thinking a lot about "image" and poker. I'm not referring to image in poker -- that is, the impression someone projects at the table regarding what...
No Bluffin' Ruffin on High Stakes Poker
The new season of High Stakes Poker, the popular cash-game show appearing on Saturday nights on the Game Show Network in the U.S., is underway with the first two episodes having aired thus far. Already...
2011 NBC National Heads-Up Poker Championship Provides Possibilities
The 2011 NBC National Heads-Up Poker Championship gets underway today with action kicking off around noon Las Vegas time in the poker room at Caesars Palace. This is the seventh year for the 64-player tournament,...