On Wednesday, I wrote about how some poker players are ruining the game by playing much too slowly, acting as if every decision was life and death. Here's an example of what I was talking about, as reported by the WSOP staff Thursday afternoon in the $3,000 buy-in Six...

Sitting and playing poker for hours on end can be very boring, particularly if you're not participating in a lot of hands. Patience is a key factor, but it can be tested by several factors that slow the pace of the game considerably. The worst is players who take...

My friend Nolan Dalla's recap of the remarkable chip-and-a-chair victory of Benjamin Keeline, who picked up a cool million dollars for winning the World Series Of Poker's Colossus II tournament a couple of days ago: When one considers the vast number of entries in...

When my Final Table Poker Radio show ended in 2012, Howard Lederer hadn’t apologized for the Full Tilt Poker debacle, which left millions of poker players hanging. Now he has, via Daniel Negreanu, who offers his thoughts, as well.  Meanwhile, we're still waiting...

If you lend a poker player $20,000, you will always get your money back. But if you lend him $20, you'll never see it again. That truism popped into my head the other night when several people around the table started talking about lending money to other poker...

"Poker players who chase straights and flushes arrive in limos but go home in buses." -- Anonymous I heard two poker road trip stories this week that I have to share with you, both about players who are way too tight with their money. I have changed the names to...

In my occasional series of poker stories, here's a piece I wrote on September 21, 2004... Just back from a quick vacation in Vegas with a few stories that aren't going to stay there. My brother-in-law, Stuart, and I were there for our annual poker-and-football...