Winning Poker Lessons From Warren Buffett

Warren Buffett is one smart dude. And RICH. He’s the second richest man in the WORLD… right behind Bill Gates. Forbes estimates that his net worth is $40 BILLION. What’s interesting about Buffett is that he made his fortune over a LONGGG period of time… by consistently beating the stock market year after year after year. He wasn’t one of those

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Free poker money at CDPoker

This is a new free poker money bonus at CDPoker. The initial free cash amount is $30. This blog has all of the details, plus lots of other free poker money offers.

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THE NEARLY TELEPATHIC POKER PLAYER!

While I personally find it incredulous to believe that there’s a game referred to as the “World Series of Poker”, it appears that Jerry Yang walked away from the table with 8.25 million dollars in winnings. Hush yo mouth! Seriously?

The twist though, is that the 36-year-old Hmong man is also a practicing psychologist who uses his formal training to help beat his opponents. To X-Men fans that’s akin to playing poker with Charles Xavier, the character who can read minds. I’m sure it’s pretty difficult to bluff someone who is trained to pick up on subtle changes in your body language and speech that indicate when you’re lying.

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He left Vietnam penniless, but poker made him a millionaire

Tuan Lam threw all his chips on the table when he decided to board the boat that took him away from his native Vietnam village 20 years ago. A penniless teenager, Mr. Lam left all his relatives behind and arrived in Canada with no postsecondary education, one of thousands of “boat people” who fled the Vietnamese Communist regime. Wednesday morning,

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Guy jacks in town planning job to play poker

That’s right – on Friday 29th June hr handed inhis notice at work meaning that following a notice period and his annual holiday up north, he will return on Monday 6th August as a jobless poker bum. He’s got a blog all about it. Should make interesting reading…
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BLIND MAN’S BLUFF: NO HANDICAP IN THE WSOP

YourSportsFan.com’s Steven Leventhal writes about a blind poker player in the 2007 World Series of Poker Main Event. Hal Lubarsky of Las Vegas “sees” the cards through the help of a “reader” and he is in the money at the richest tournament in Poker. Read how this amazing player does it.

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“How To Use An Odds Calculator To Win EVEN More Money At Online Poker…”

Do you use a poker odds calculator? I sure hope so. Along with my system, odds calculators are also a CRUCIAL part of winning money at online poker. Here are a just a few ways an odds calculator can QUICKLY and EASILY improve your game: UNDERSTAND YOUR STARTING HAND STRENGTH…

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Poker Giant Says It’s Exempt From Gaming Ban

PokerStars, the world’s second-biggest Internet poker firm, said on Thursday that a looming U.S. ban on online gaming would not apply to poker, as it is a game of skill, and its business would continue as usual.

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More Poker Industry Jobs Lost Due to UIGEA

Card Player Magazine and the World Poker Tour axed several employees in the last 24 hours, a trend that’s been too common in the poker industry over the last few weeks. Many jobs in the once thriving poker industry have been lost due to the UIGEA and it seems that the two big giants in the poker world were not exempt from the fallout.

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21-year-old wins 2nd World Series of Poker bracelet in 5 days!

Doyle Brunson and Johnny Chan have 10 bracelets, Phil Ivey has 5…Jeff Madsen, 21-year-old film student already has 2…in 5 days…and is still younger then anyone else ever to win one. “[Doyle] Brunson and [Johnny] Chan have 10, so at this rate, I guess I’ll have 100 when I’m Brunson’s age [72].”

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