Poker is easy! Once you know the hands – that’s it! Unlike chess there are no complicated processes to do to fully understand the game, once you know that two pair beats a pair and so on you pretty much know how to play poker. The real skill in playing poker is the ability to […]
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The Election Poker Tournament
Today is quite a big day in UK history because we could see the beginning of the change with the voting system used in the country’s democratic process. The reason for ths is that there is a X Factor/Strictly Come Dancing/Britains Got Talent type program on TV featuring the 3 main party leaders. Yesterday, I […]
Online Poker Gets Dirty
All of a sudden there are legal cases flying around and robberies of poker tournament/casino are becoming a daily occurrence. legal issues and poker have always had a uneasy relationship, but, it has somehow been kept under wrapped during the great poker explosion of the last few years. Now, every time you read an article […]
A Poker Blog As Therapy
Head doctors such as Jung, Freud and others would get very upset if I came up with an intellectual argument that poker is a great way of looking into peoples head and peoples genuine state of health. The psychodynamics that drive a person to play poker, to make decisions while playing poker and the players […]
Using Poker for Therapy
After a rather interesting situation concerning man management, I was minded to think about how poker can operate as a release valve for pent up frustration. We have all experience ‘full tilt’ and suicide card play, but, sometimes a aggressive player who wants to take out an opponent can reap rewards for the player who […]