You may not know much about the poker podcasts you don’t listen to. Nearly all published guidance to the market is click-bait, and that’s being kind. As for user searches, Google’s and Spotify’s overwhelmed algorithms promote long-dead pods and one-off efforts while burying some of the best content. Maybe that’s okay, though, because if you…
Hey guys, it’s Taunty V over at your favorite poker app GTO Lion! It’s been an amazing Fall here in beautiful Vilnius, Lithuania where the GTO Lion team has been absolutely CRUSHING! In addition to ALL the subs, solves and bots we’ve added this quarter, we’ve upgraded our processing power so you have the strat…
I’m retracing my ways in the grey season of the green country. Vegas to the PNW through the Sierra Nevada and the Klamath mountains, into the rainforest and the Hood Canal, then south by southeast; hard east to Boise, then back through the heart of Oregon and up north again, only to close this week…
The poker player suffers from ethical vertigo, usually unwittingly. To explain, his craft is strongly allied to all sorts of things we might generously call edge-seeking, and his game itself was once thought to only be winnable through unsavory means. This is why we were called card sharps, later softly zoomorphized and made acceptable as…
One of the strangest things in politics is the short-sightedness of its most impassioned theorists. Every day since the Enlightenment, wild-eyed prophets (we call them intellectuals now) have posited and even tried to create their utopia. It usually takes less than a hundred years for the page to come alive; we can think, I suppose,…
Back to the road in the cloudlands. At first, I’m not sure I can make it beyond the cool shadow of the rainforest, never mind escape this wet and weird state. I stop at an espresso joint in dumpy Allyn, reeling from the first forty minutes of driving. I nibble pathetically at a cookie and…
It’s been a long time since I played in Washington, but the scene continues to evolve, however strangely. See, it’s all about the weird rules and regulations. Podcast guest Mannes N. gives us an update on the state of the games. The most important details are the rules for the tribal casinos and the rules…
The poker world loves tournaments in the 2020’s. Online, tournament culture is vital and MTT-heavy while cash game action stalls. GG has challenged Pokerstars with huge tournaments series. U.S.-facing ACR continues to thrive. As for the live scene, everyone is amazed at the action, with WSOP and WPT now vying almost non-stop for your dollars;…
I come not to praise poker hand histories, but to bury them. They are done. Fried. Cooked. Delivered. D.O.A. They are so dead, in fact, that I don’t even feel up to writing a history of the hand history. It would be good, I’m sure. I could pretend to be Martin Harris. After all, I…
Vegas is home to more than just gaming, it is home to the history of those games and to those who created that history. Richie Brodie, lifelong “poker bum,” has played with all the greats, from Doyle and his “southern” crew, to the Mayfair’s Erik Seidel, to California’s rising 1990’s NL scene with Bobby Hoff…