November 2009

  • November 2009
  • Special:
    53 Your 12-page Betfred Poker Supplement
    Features:
    24 Propping up the bar with… Scotty Nguyen
    28 Cover Story: WSOPE 2009 – Shulman conquers Europe
    42 EPT London: The truth about Luke Schwartz’s sandwich
    48 Jesper Hougaard: Bluff sets the world to rights with Denmark’s smartest pro
    Thrills:
    10 The Beat: With Neil “Bad Beat” Channing
    12 Newswire: Rolling poker news from around the globe
    15 Dr Tom’s Poker Infirmary: Is your game sick?
    16 Nick’s Column: Nick has poker and women figured out
    18 Being Phil Laak: The Unabomber gets embroiled in a nasty bet involving exercise
    20 Our Kelly: Derek sings to some terrorists
    PRO-Spective:
    22 EPO: Doyle goes to Nottingham to meet the queen
    24 Grassroots: Supporting poker in the community
    65 JJ Hazan: A Short History of London Poker
    74 WPT Cyprus: Shelley Rubenstein reports
    Virtual Felt:
    66 Online Report: Snoopy meets Paul “BadPab” Foltyn
    70 LarsLuzak: Bluffing in Monte Carlo
    72 Pickleman: Is poker a young man’s game?
    Wisdom:
    78 Mike Caro: How to evaluate your own ability
    80 Action Jackson: Is Paul Jackson talking bollocks?
    82 PokerStrategy.com: Analysing Flop Textures, Part II
    84 Unibet Open: The tour hits Prague
    86 Blackjack Strategy: Guy Downs on betting systems
    88 BlackjackVT: Strategy from the MIT Blackjack Team
    90 Table Games: Dr Les receives and angry letter
    93 Full Tilt Tips: Lee Markholt on the squeeze play
    94 Slutsky: Beware of the “sleeping ugly snap call”

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What a wonderful word “jobsy” is. It’s a peculiarly British word. Not because being jobsy is a peculiarly British thing to be, but because only the British would actually come up with a word to slag someone off who was being so.

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Dr Tom,
I have just become a full-time online poker pro and am looking for tips on how to best keep 1) healthy 2) happy 3) my friends.


Stephen, Edinburgh

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Dr Tom,
I am playing cash. There is a maniac on my table who raises 5BB every time he’s on the button, when there has been no action behind him. He often continues to play aggressively post flop regardless of whether he hits. Being out of position to this guy is a little tricky as you can imagine.

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Very often, the most potent threat to a poker player’s poker playing life comes from sources completely unrelated to the game of poker itself.

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Dear Tom,


Is it possible to win at poker without bluffing?


Jepser, Uppsala

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There was a time when the very mention of his name would make us shudder, but these days, Bluff lives in harmony with Barry Shulman of Card Player Magazine.