With the explosion of tournament poker in the past few years, many players are making the transition from cash games to tournament play. Since the prize pools have in many cases decupled, this influx is not that surprising. Like me, the allure of huge money and TV exposure has drawn in many players who used [...]
Let me tell you about the time I met an FBI interrogator named Joe Navarro. Why? Because it was a turning point in my No Limit Hold’em game, Last March, I was asked to appear on a show called More Than Human on the Discovery Channel. The premise for the episode was to pit human [...]
I was invited to go to England for the second year in a row to attend the Guineas Festival in Newmarket. Last year I presented the Winner’s Trophy and picked the Best Turned Out horse. The Guineas Festival is a well known horse race, equivalent to the Kentucky Derby. Last year I arrived on a [...]
Female poker players will find that their opponents often play them differently than the men at the same table. One of the most common types of player that woman will come across is the “maniac.” The maniac can be described as a super aggressive player with a loose style of poker. Men will often fall [...]
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What makes a winning tournament player? There are so many facets to the answer to that question. There is the mathematical facet. A great tournament player needs a complete grasp of probability theory. There is the strategic facet. A great tournament player needs a good grasp of game theory. There is the psychological facet. A [...]
God Bless Men As a woman playing this great game of poker you have a distinct advantage over your male counterparts. You might think it is your clearly superior brain. You might think it is your ability to multi-task. You might think it is your more intuitive nature. Yes, all those are qualities that women [...]
On Monday the April 5th I entered the $2500 buy-in Limit Hold’em Tournament at the Bellagio. My brother, Howard Lederer, had just won the first event–the $2500 buy-in No Limit Hold’em. He won on Sunday night which was really exciting since he had won the same event the year before! On Monday I entered the [...]
I was in Las Vegas the weekend of the 19th to help HBO promote their new show Deadwood. The show is set in the Old West in Deadwood, SD. In order to help promote the show HBO teamed up with the World Poker Tour and 6 lucky winners were flown to Las Vegas to play [...]
Another big mistake players make is overestimating the strength of connecting low cards that contain no ace. A hand like 2:s: 3:h: 4:c: 5:c: might look very strong because of all the wheel possibilities but in reality it is not at all strong. Your flush feature is only 5-high. In order to flop the nut [...]
