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River Play - Part I
My buddy Ray and I discuss a lot of poker topics over AOL Instant Messenger, and one thing that we have been discussing a lot lately - which is very crucial in all forms of poker, particularly limit - is playing the river. The river is so important to play well because all of the cards are out,...
Poker in the Netherlands
Poker is booming here in the Netherlands. My 87-year-old grandmother recognized Phil Ivey recently as "that polite, well-mannered young man who plays cards so well," when she was watching the weekly Sunday afternoon poker show on television in her nursing home. "Why can't you...
The European Poker Tour, and Young Players Shine
As you are reading this, the second season of the European Poker Tour (EPT) has just reached its conclusion. In the January 2006 issue, the founder of the EPT, John Duthie, talked about the past, present, and future of the Tour. In the beginning, people were somewhat skeptical about both the Tour...
A Law Unto Themselves
Online poker sites can pretty much do as they please. We can huff and puff all we want, but, at the end of the day, we are at their mercy. That's not to say that these sites are acting disreputably in any way, and with good reason; they'd have nothing to gain and everything to lose if...
Paul Phillips vs. Phil Hellmuth - Round Two of the National Heads-Up Poker Championship
In my last column, I discussed NBC's National Heads-Up Poker Championship, which featured 60 of the top poker players in the world and a few celebrities. With an NCAA basketball tournament "bracket" type of structure, 64 players started and 32 survived round one, which is where this...
Ace Speaks Dutch
Watching the Big Guys LiveI have been a poker pro for more than seven years now, and I can say that it's been a whole lot of fun. But sometimes, watching poker can be fun, too! For quite some time now, I have been the reporter at some fairly large European poker tournaments, and this has been...
How Deep is Your Love
W hat a nice place Helsinki is. An invitation to vote in the annual European Poker Awards meant I was there just before Christmas. Having read Roy "The Boy" Brindley's scathing article on these awards (on Ladbrokespoker.com), I was more than a little interested to find out how the...
The Ryder Cup
Golf's Ryder Cup took place last month, an event that pitted the best in the world from Europe and America over four days of unique competition. The European team, although underdogs at the off, were well-deserved winners. Actually, they thrashed the Americans. And to hear the Europeans...
Donnacha O'Dea
The story of modern poker history is littered with names we have come to know well - Doyle Brunson, Chip Reese, Stu Ungar, Jack Straus; Americans, all. But back in the heydays of early poker, there were also some Europeans playing the game, matching wits with their American counterparts. No man...
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