In a split-pot game, there are generally three reasons to raise: (1) you believe you are the only person playing for one half of the pot and have multiple people playing for the other half, leading to a situation where you can......
Last week I described a few of my experiences playing in an eight-game mix tournament on PokerStars. To refresh your recollection, eight games are played in rotation in an eight-game mix tournament......
At first, I thought it was just me. Every time I saw another headline pop up, I kept telling myself that my fascination with gambling had just gone too far. When I realized, however, that it was really happening – and that talking to myself would probably land me in an asylum – I started telling others: “You know,” I’d say to some Armani-wearing blonde as she sipped a French martini in an Uptown lounge. “I work in the gambling.” And to my surprise, said blonde was usually...
There were several new events added to the 2008 World Series of Poker. Some of them, like Event #4 "Mixed Hold'em", don't really qualify as mixed games in my book. While it's true that two different variations......