I realized that people are getting better at poker. Whereas I used to sit down at a table and presume people were bad until they show me that they aren’t, now I play and presume people are good until they prove otherwise.
Gavin Griffin – 01/2010 – in PokerStars Blog
Categories: Players on other players
Tagged: evolution, good players, Griffin
If Phil Hellmuth played in Texas, back in the 1970s, and acted the way he does now, he wouldn’t be alive for the week.
TJ Cloutier – 01/2009 – in Poker Player
Categories: Players on other players
If you keep whining about your bad luck, you will play like a weak, scared, passive victim. You will lose, and deserve to lose. If you realize that you’re about as lucky as everyone else, you can play like a confident, decisive winner.
Alan Schoonmaker – 12/2009 – in CardPlayer
Categories: Poker Strategy
Tagged: luck, mind, Schoonmaker
I think Rush Poker is an evolution of the game of poker that is here to stay. It’s a brilliant move by Full Tilt Poker and I applaud them for being innovative. I hadn’t played a hand of No Limit Hold’em cash in over six months because I was just too bored of the game. [...]
Categories: Online Poker
I don’t like seeing durrrr just own off the poker world and just win all the money from all the other fish, I don’t mind if Patrik [Antonius] and [Phil] Ivey win. I just can’t stand durrrr. I can’t stand durrrr’s face, durrrr’s voice, and durrrr’s eyes. I can’t stand anything about durrrr. He’s just [...]
Categories: Players on other players
Tagged: Dwan, Schwartz, trash talking
Is Luke Schwartz the new Devilfish? He’s rude, obnoxious and I cannot wait to bust him up. This kid is not the kind of player you feel you can learn from – you just want to bust him.
Antanas “Tony G” Guoga – 01/2010 – in PartyPoker Blog
Categories: Players on other players
Tagged: Guoga, Schwartz, trash talking
Regardless of what one thinks of the proper public policy approach to gaming in general, it’s time to acknowledge that this incidence of ill-conceived prohibition has failed, is failing and will continue to fail because it completely ignores the reality of the Internet.
Rep. Jared Polis – 09/2009 – in Roll Call
Categories: Gambling Legislation
Tagged: Internet, Polis, prohibition
A good bluff tells a story that the victim believes and understands. [...] You have to make your opponent feel certain – certain that he is doing the right thing by folding. You don’t want to leave any doubt in his mind. Let him remain confident in his fold, because creating confusion in your opponent’s [...]
Categories: Poker Strategy
The worst thing about being a professional poker player is definitely that, if I win, say, $10,000, then the feeling doesn’t nearly compare to losing $10,000. Sometimes I feel you get way more deflation than happiness playing poker.
Rasmus Nielsen – 11/2009 – in Bluff Europe
Categories: Poker in General
Tagged: disappointment, money, Nielsen
A rule of thumb for cash games is that the first raise means nothing, the reraise doesn’t mean much more, but the four-bet starts to get scary. In tournaments, the first raise still means nothing, but the reraise is already frightening.
Matt Matros – 07/2009 – in CardPlayer
Categories: Poker Strategy
Tagged: aggressivity, cash game, Matros, tournament