I’d never experienced such a significant moment at a poker table. If I got my card here, it would be over. I felt the weight of all those hours of play as the dealer slid the card off the top of the deck and turned it over. Wow! Was it really the ten of diamonds? [...]
Categories: Poker Players
I think even good players sometimes don’t adapt very well. They have pretty good basics, usually, especially these days online, but they don’t adapt enough to the flow of the game. They have just a basic strategy, and they aren’t very flexible. It’s very important to be flexible with your strategy in poker. If something [...]
Categories: Poker Strategy
Tagged: adaptation, Grospellier
Nine out of ten times, when I’m waiting for a bigger game, I’m in the $10-$20 games because there are more tables and a constant stream of people. It constantly amazes me that people don’t understand how big $10-$20 is. [...] You can sit in the $10-$20 and make $1,500 a day and it’s so [...]
Categories: Poker Strategy
The next 10 to 15 years in this industry will be about innovation. The last ten years have been about big branding and being the industry’s Red Bull, but the next ten will be about being an Apple, and offering consumers something new that revolutionizes the market. Media spending will not be the answer.
Manfred Bodner [...]
Categories: Poker Industry
Tagged: advertising, Bodner, innovation
Poker, like life itself, is flexible, supple, elastic, constantly in a state of change, and nearly organic. It’s always shifting, however slight and imperceptive that shift may be, until it morphs into something you would probably not recognize if you stayed away from it for a while.
Lou Krieger
Categories: Poker in General
As a female player, you are always being watched. Everyone remembers you and if you make one single mistake, you will hear it for the rest of your life.
Katja Thater – 08/2008 – in Poker News Daily
Categories: Poker Players
Poker is closest to the Western conception of life, where life and thought are recognized as intimately combined, where free will prevails over philosophies of fate or of chance, where men are considered moral agents, and where — at least in the short run — the important thing is not what happens but what people [...]
Categories: Poker in General