Sami "LarsLuzak" Kelopuro looks at an interesting hand from the Finnish Open.
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
It’s not the size, it’s what you do with it… Jeff Kimber explains.
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?
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”