March 2011

  • March 2011
  • 36 WPT Diamond Championship: Bluff heads to Paris
    40 B.E.S.T. Champion of Champions: Meet Paul Berende and Craig McCorkell
    56 The Poker Power 20: The most influential people in poker
    Buzz
    10 Snapshot: UKIPT Nottingham
    12 Bluff Newswire: Rolling poker news from around the globe
    16 The Beat: With Neil “Bad Beat” Channing
    18 Wicked Chops: The Entities lay down some new poker rules
    20 Virtual Felt: Snoopy meets Koddzilla
    24 Cashing Out: What to do when your chips become money
    26 Nick’s Column: It’s kind of a big deal
    28 Being Phil Laak: The Unabomber confronts his demons
    30 Raw Power: Nicky Power reports from the Irish poker scene
    32 Poker Faces: Learn to express yourself
    34 Ogmore Poker Tour: The lads head to Pencoed
    46 J Tilly: The lost city
    48 Road Gambler: Historical fiction from Johnny Hughes
    52 Grassroots: Supporting poker in the community
    62 Bluff Europe Super Tour: Who’s hot on the live circuit?
    64 Trendspotting: Who’s hot online? With PTR
    66 James Mitchell: Irish Open Champion reflects
    68 Ladbrokes Poker Cruise: Shelley Rubenstein on board
    Poker Academy
    70 Caro: Mental tricks for poker success
    72 Cardrunners: Poker is a marathon not a sprint
    74 Poker Infirmary: Is your game sick?
    76 Pickleman: Alex Rousso on poker as spectacle
    80 Matt Perry: Is live the new online?
    82 Action Jackson: Paul goes cruising
    84 Brunson 10: Top advice from Dan Kelly
    86 Should I stay or should I go? Lee Davy ponders when to quit
    88 Jeff Kimber: Stack sizes and how to use them
    90 Paul Zimbler: Bet-sizing and pot control
    92 Beat the Casino: Is dice manipulation a myth?
    94 Les Golden: Foolproof blackjack
    96 Card Gang: Check out our latest freeroll

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Sami "LarsLuzak" Kelopuro looks at an interesting hand from the Finnish Open.

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Dear Dr. Tom,


I have noticed that a lot of pros are playing HORSE or even 8-game. As a NL player, how can I begin to branch out into other poker disciplines?


Phil, Kilburn

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It’s not the size, it’s what you do with it… Jeff Kimber explains.

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This month brings the news that Annie Duke has teamed up with former WSOP supremo Jeffrey Pollack to bring us supposedly the definitive league of poker. If only, so the line of argument goes, we could have one definitive league, and therefore one definitive champion, we could know where we are with this “sport”. Perhaps more importantly, we could market it more effectively and convincingly to the world at large. But can poker join the ranks of legitimate spectator sports?

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Craig: “I can play a ten-hour tournament day, then go home and play online, whereas I don’t know many 40-year-olds who could do that or even want to do that. Young people also have a lot of free time and time to dedicate to learning the game and putting the hours in”