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Acting Last by Tommy Angelo

Acting last is like taking a drink of water. We don’t have to understand why it’s good for us to know that it is. And the benefits are unaffected by our understanding of them.

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Published Jul 27, 2008 2:05pm
Value Ranges, Bluff Ranges, and why handreading can be so damn hard by baluga

Every poker player can remember improvements in his thought process.  We know how important the decision-making part of poker is, so we have the tendency to jump straight to it.  When ...

Published Jul 27, 2008 11:18am
From the Cutting Room Floor by Tommy Angelo

This is an image I made in photoshop that I was going to put inside the back cover of my book and then decided not to.

Published Jul 8, 2008 6:05pm
Minimum Wager by Tommy Angelo

When I play no-limit hold’em, sometimes I’m a minimum wager wagerer. And I don’t mean minimum wager wagerer as in “one who tries to bet the smallest amount that will get...

Published Jul 2, 2008 7:15pm
Freeness Airline by Tommy Angelo

On June 19, I woke up in Ohio and I went to bed in California. Meanwhile, there were delays. My flight from Cleveland to Houston was a little late getting off the ground, which gave me only 20...

Published Jun 22, 2008 2:32am
Ask Me About Music Lessons by Tommy Angelo

When I moved to California in 1997, my bankroll was about $100,000. That was the barrier between floating freely on the breeze, and crash lan...

Published Jun 9, 2008 7:28pm
A Hand I Didn’t Play at Lucky Chances by tommy

I was in the big blind in the $10-10-20 game. The player under-the-gun opened the pot for the minimum, $40. He had about $7,000. Everyone...

Published Jun 2, 2008 12:00am
Musings on Poker Education by DeathDonkey

“I taught you everything you know, but not everything I know”.  We as poker educators struggle to prove this oft quoted statement of superiority i...

Published May 28, 2008 10:43am
The Bay Area’s 3-blind structure for no-limit by tommy

So far this year I’ve been playing almost entirely no-limit hold’em almost entirely at Lucky Chances Casino, near San Francisco. This area of the count...

Published May 26, 2008 6:26pm
Two Rights Make a Wrong by tommy

People say you shouldn’t quit if the game is good. That seems like good advice. And people say you should play in good games.

Published May 22, 2008 2:53pm