As Henri mentioned, I’m Dan Pickering - Poker Pro and Coach - and I’m really excited to be a part of ThePokerHowTo. I’ll be writing regular blog posts about the life of a poker pro, along with plenty of strategy articles and hand discussions. I’m working on a “Life Story” in the same fashion as Henri’s [...]
I’ve been busy with a few things and that’s my excuse for not posting. But anyway, I will keep you guys up to date. I have been working on my website Texas Holdem Poker 101 and there I have been working on my online poker rooms page, so far I’ve written two reviews, one on Full [...]
I’ve been busy with a few things and that’s my excuse for not posting. But anyway, I will keep you guys up to date. I have been working on my website Texas Holdem Poker 101 and there I have been working on my texas holdem online poker rooms page, so far I’ve written two reviews, one [...]
The short answers (as far as I can tell) seem to be: It is not illegal to PLAY online poker but it is illegal (or at least harder than before) to transfer money onto poker sites. Bill Rini gives his comments in Bill’s Poker Blog In short, it seems like the rules are incredibly vague and will [...]
I know you guys have been requesting a tutorial on how to shuffle poker chips, and today I just happened to stumble upon this fine video (with nice music to boot) on shuffling them chips. Enjoy.
I put in a marathon session today of 4,000 hands, in that session I was at 2-tables with a fairly good player who was probably running good and re-raising me with a pretty wide range. This gave me the idea for this post and how you can shift your thinking and learn how to [...]
I played a short heads-up session today on Full Tilt while I was waiting for my cash-out from other poker rooms so I could deposit to a new one. This was the kind of player who is in with too many hands and playing them in a very unorthodox manner (a.k.a donkish). He was min-reraising me [...]
I’m sure some of you might ask yourself the question of “Why do I lose all the time?”. I got this divine inspiration to write an honest post about what I see people doing that ruin their chances of becoming winning poker players. Mostly it’s because you refuse to be honest with yourself, the blocks [...]
Learning Tips 1. Read everything you can find on poker 2. Try to talk to everyone you can get ahold of 3. Save all the hands you have difficulties with 4. Discuss all of your hands on poker forums and anywhere you can 5. Get a poker coach or join an online program! 6. Always review your sessions and learn to [...]
Part I | Part II | Part III | Part IV The Big Bump After I returned from my trip to Aiya Napa I again started getting into the poker groove again. I decided to try an experiment, My plan was to deposit $600 into a poker room and grow it from there. In 2 months I [...]
Part I | Part II | Part III | Part IV April 2007 - My Training Begins I began my No-Limit Hold’em training with Jason, in the beginning it was very frustrating because the switch from Fixed Limit to No-Limit is hard, at least it was for me. I lost for a month or so playing No-Limit [...]
Part I | Part II | Part III | Part IV My Poker Introduction During my box washing job I heard about poker for the first time and the notion that you could possibly be able to make money playing poker. This all seemed very unlikely to me, but I was ready to look into it since [...]