September 2009

  • September 2009
  • 24 The November Nine: Meet the Chosen Ones
    32 James Akenhead: “How I made the final table of the WSOP”
    42 Turbo-reading Phil Ivey: Bluff talks to THE MAN!
    64 LarsLuzak: Our new strategy writer tries to bluff durrrr
    Thrills
    10 The Beat: With Neil “Bad Beat” Channing
    12 Newswire: Rolling poker news from around the globe
    16 Wicked Chops Poker: Irreverent poker backchat
    18 Nick’s Column: Nick enters the play money pen
    20 Dr Tom’s Poker Infirmary: Is your poker game sick?
    22 Being Phil Laak: The Unabomber wishes to kidnap you
    PRO-Spective
    34 Grassroots: Supporting poker in the community
    38 Poker in the Park III: Inside Europe’s biggest poker festival
    48 WSOPE: The story so far: We revue the first two years of a very special tournament
    50 Poker like a Rock Star: Antonio wakes up on a yacht
    52 Lee Jones: Why Annette_15 rules
    54 Sam Chauhan: Meet the man who can cleanse you mind
    Virtual Felt
    58 Online Report: All the latest from BlackBeltPoker.com
    62 Rizen: Eric Lynch on getting the marginal decisions right
    64 LarsLuzak: Our new strategy writer tries to bluff durrrr
    66 Real Poker Training: Online Poker Tells
    70 Pickleman: The bizarre evolution of the modern game
    Wisdom
    72 Mike Caro: Three poker tips to take to the grave
    74 JJ Hazan: Coping with your first big tournament
    76 Bonomo: Bluffing in Stud 8 Better
    78 Navarro: Inside Joe’s mailbag
    82 Advanced donkey strategy: What not to do
    86 Table games: Dr Les on roulette
    88 Full Tilt Tips: John Turner ponders a big all-in call
    90 Paul Jackson: Why the “Moneymaker mentality” is wrong
    92 Poker Girl: Annie Duke has a cold
    94 Off the Felt: The continuing adventures of Adam Slutsky
    96 Card Gang: Win a seat to the Irish Winter festival

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It took The Lord six days to create the earth and after that he needed a day of rest, so I imagine that he was admitted to Heaven’s equivalent of The Priory after arranging the remarkable set of circumstances that resulted in Jerry Yang's victory in the WSOP Main Event.

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If 2008 was the year of the four-bet shove light, it should be no surprise that 2009 became the year of the light call of the four-bet shove. Such is the nature of competition. Today’s clever new trick is yesterday’s cliché.

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Even a crazy mistimed bluff against one of the world's best players can reap rewards, says our new strategy writer, high stakes grand master Sami “larsluzak” Kelopouro.

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It’s 3.30am at Bluff Towers. The phone rings, jogging a sleep-deprived journalist out of his catatonic slump. “Phil’s ready to do the interview now,” says the nice PR lady at FullTilt. “Make sure it’s ten minutes, though. OK?”
Oh, thank God!