A few weeks ago, I was playing in a $2-$5 no limit cash game at the Wynn. This was a deep stack game with a max buy-in of $1500. I’d bought in for the max and had only played a few hands but was already down to about $1300 when this hand came up… A […]

It’s a great question. 7-Card Stud is pretty much dead as a cash game. Sure, you can still find it in mega-cardrooms like the Commerce Casino in L.A., or perhaps in some small town on a Monday morning, played as a $2-$10 spread limit game with seven old-timers who never see fifth street.  Not a […]

The other day I played in the $1k buy in turbo event at the World Series of Poker. I ran good at the beginning, and by the time the second level started, I had more than doubled my stack. On the last hand of the first level, Mike Dentale, an aggressive east-coast player took a […]

As I write this, the final table of the One Drop $111,111 buy-in tournament is underway at the WSOP. Bertrand “Elky” Grospellier is the chip leader with nine players left. Phil Hellmuth busted yesterday in 10th place. There might be a reason for that, and it all boils down to a hand the two played […]

Hey guys, The World Series of Poker is less than a month away and we wanted to give people the opportunity to get their games tuned up before it starts. This year, we decided to do a few interesting things. The first was mentioned by Rep in his blog last week, but I’ll mention it […]

Here’s what my WSOP has looked like so far… I played the Colossus and didn’t cash. I took a last minute, unexpected trip to New York to attend the Belmont Stakes as a guest of @Devopoker and DraftKings. This was an amazing experience, standing in the winner’s circle to welcome American Pharaoh, the first triple […]

I recently made a claim on Twitter that I thought I was probably one of the top five poker instructors in the world. Ridiculous claim, right? The Twitterverse sure seemed to think so, and maybe all of you do too. It’s possible that it is a ridiculous claim… It’s subjective at the very least and […]

Mike, Mike, Mike, Mike, Mike, what day is it?? Launch Day.  Finally.  This has been a long time coming and I’m excited.  Rep and I have put thousands of hours into creating this first course and I think it’s the best no-limit hold’em tournament instruction I’ve ever seen, and I’ve seen and created a lot […]

After more than a decade as a professional poker player, I think I finally understand the need for balance. This is my first blog post since the Myspace days when I used to write pretty regularly. I enjoyed it and Myspace made it easy. However, Myspace made more changes than Bruce Jenner and my blogging […]