When visiting Las Vegas, the culture of tipping can be pretty overwhelming, especially to those visiting from other countries. Tip someone for holding the door open, tip the dealer, tip room service, tip the lovely dancer. You need to have a pocket full of one dollar bills to go anywhere in the city. [...]

Those in the industry salivate at the thought of the World Series of Poker (WSOP) Main Event coming around the corner. Now that the final table of the $10,000 buy-in tournament has been pushed back until November, the drools have gotten just a little bit bigger. Why is everyone so fired up? Why does one [...]

In physics, there is the Theory of Relativity. In baseball, there is OPS. In poker, there is the Gap Concept. People interested in each field know about all of these things and even know basically what they are, but many don’t actually fully understand them. Perhaps it is because they just never took the time [...]

If you’ve ever been encouraged to call or write your Congressmen about an issue, you may wonder why you should take the time to do it. After all, not only could it be uncomfortable to call your Representative and two Senators, but you may also end up talking to an aide and not the lawmaker [...]

Online, sites like PokerStars and Full Tilt Poker wage war against each other using the latest and greatest promotions. From millions of dollars in tournaments to top-tier online poker bonuses, it’s a fierce battle every single day in the world of internet poker. At live casinos, it’s no different. Let’s check out a few of [...]

Now that the 2009 World Series of Poker (WSOP) has come and gone, the world’s largest tournament will be paused for four months, resuming in November for its final table. In the meantime, those of us who had a chance to travel to Sin City for the 2009 festivities reflect on some of the notable [...]

A few years ago when I started to learn about reading the physical tells of my opponents at the tables, I spent serious money on sunglasses. But it seemed like no matter what kind of glasses I bought, hyper-light Serengeti or the comfortable Maui Jims I wear now, they all came up short. That’s because [...]

If you’ve ever watched a television show like GSN’s “High Stakes Poker,” then you know that prop bets are half the fun of the game. After all, because playing for millions of dollars just doesn’t present enough excitement for some superstars of poker, prop bets provide an easy outlet to scratch that gambling itch just [...]