Poker Decadence Conference

Man I wish I was on the other end of this hand with the Qh2d to kick some Lex Veldhuis ass! Pretty weak play by CK Hua though, I guess he just wanted to get Lex…

The commentators are wrong. Here’s a quote from the youtube comments: These commentators have no idea what is going on. Murphy is not calling twice with A high because he thinks his hand is good, he’s calling to represent a 2 and steal the pot on the river. Because he knows John Juanda almost never [...]

I actually like Jennifer Tilly – but I don’t like her poker playing much… This hand is one of the most amazing examples of idiocy at the poker table – and the captions add to the fun.

All good poker players know that position is a key poker element in every single poker variant. Why? Well, Poker God Gavin Smith explains it very well in this short video:

Brian Townsend is a Gambler and I love him for it. He’s holding 56s in this hand against the great Phil Ivey and decides to play it very aggressively. On the turn he makes a pair and an open-end straightdraw (to give him thirteen out against any pair really) pretty much drawing dead against 9T [...]

Alright so David Sklanksy has mentioned the Gap Concept in quite a few of his books but Phil Gordon does a good job explaining it a little more in this video… I haven’t seen Phil’s Learn Poker with Phil Gordon “Final Table Poker” in full but I’m planning to do so… His green book was [...]

Full Tilt does such a great job in making poker look glorious — making poker look glamorous — making poker players look and sound like rock stars. Pros in the video: Chris ‘Jesus’ Ferguson, Jennifer Harman, Erick Lindgren, … and the whole crew in the final cut.

Pokernews always picks the right players to interview. This talk they’ve had with Liz Lieu, “The Poker Diva”, on a break of the APPT. She makes sense, talking about tightening up as a relative shortstack close to the bubble… I know theory says to play aggressive when people tighten up close to the money, but [...]

A great Full Tilt Poker ad sure to please all fans of Mike “The Mouth” Matusow — the awesome thing is: Mike actually cooperated! “Only a donkey would make that call” AWESOME.

This is a sickening story, and it’s been told before — so I’m going to point to the original authors here: Online poker cheating blamed on employee The final hand — ten high calldown wtf? sigh… Some video footage: