I'm going to mix it up a little on this four-day trip to Vegas for the annual blogger gathering. Most importantly, I'm not going to lose my ass playing roulette. I'll play, but I'm setting a stop loss. And I certainly won't spew off most of my cash as...

Let's start with a few statements that reflect majority opinion: 1. No one likes shortstackers except shortstackers themselves. 2. Shortstackers are a problem for the game of poker because they reduce it to a preflop shove-or-fold game. They prevent...

The relevance of Malcolm Gladwell's book "Outliers" to poker has been discussed at length, and I want to add my experience. A primary theme of the book is that fortunate timing and 10,000 hours of experience in a field is often what it takes to become...

Because poker is such a long-run game, the best players are able to continue making accurate folds even when it seems like it's impossible for their opponents to be running so good. I'm inspired by players who are able to sit down at the table for...

With the winter blogger gathering coming up in Las Vegas the weekend of Dec. 11, I became motivated to get back to posting. The main reasons for my four-month hiatus were that I ran out of things to write about and felt when I did post, it wasn't any...