Archive for July, 2008

5 Different Poker Styles That you Absolutely Need to Know

unknown wrote an interesting post today onHere’s a quick excerptThe NIT
The NIT is content to sit back and wait for ultra-premium hands, and will blind himself into oblivion if necessary. Plays nothing but Aces, Kings, Queens, and sometimes, AK. When you’re re-raised by a NIT, you can safely fold hands up to, and including, [...]

The Education of a Poker Player

Stephen Bartley wrote an interesting post today onHere’s a quick excerptThis classic is not only a poker playing manual but a marvellous autobiography. First published in 1957, Yardley, also the first chief of the US code breakers during W.W.1 and W.W.2, recalls countless poker games with characters ranging from railroad men, travelling salesmen, speculators, [...]