Poker Decadence Conference

Brian Townsend is a gambler

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 [...]


The Gap Concept

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 - Why We Play

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.


Liz Lieu talking to pokernews in Macau

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 I [...]


Allen Cunningham & Mike Matusow, Full Tilt Pros

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.


Absolute Poker Cheating by PotRipper

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:


Marcel Luske sings his own little poker song

I mean, don’t get me wrong, I like Marcel Luske — but he really does make a complete fool of himself in this WSOP-video of him doing his own little pokersong…
Come on Marcel, you’re always the classy one!! Glasses upside down, “strak in het pak”/suited up, looking like the don corleone of poker… And here [...]