Andy will be sorely missed and to honor his memory, knowledge, talent, and to keep his spirit alive for the love of the game of Poker, Poker.Net has decided to bring our visitors the series of articles Andy wrote for us.
Mr. Glazer is a "recovered" lawyer who has worked in both the business and gaming worlds, and has used various forms of gambling to support him in full or in part at different times in his life: Blackjack helped pay roughly half his college and law school tuition, in the mid 1980s he was a professional backgammon player, he became a professional Poker player in the 1990s.
Mr. Glazer is a well-know author in the gaming world who helps you to play your favorite game better. Andy doesn't promise to make everyone a winner - but he does promise that people who study and follow his advice will improve their results!
Here at Poker.Net we are proud to be one of the most important places you can find articles which can help you to improve your game!
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Most poker players, especially those reading columns at a site like poker.net, are interested in improving their poker results, be that improvement from big loser to small loser, small loser to small winner, or small winner to big winner. ... More
Recently I won a couple of tournaments at the Australasian Poker Championships at the Crown Casino in Melbourne, Australia. When I won the second event, $1,600 seven-card stud, I was particularly happy because I figured people might think, "Anyone can win one tournament, but if he won two, he must know a little something." ... More
A lot of poker players focus so strongly on their own games, and their own strengths and weaknesses, that they miss the forest for the trees. While improving your own game is always important, the most successful way to make money at poker is by finding a game where your opponents are worse. ... More
With very few exceptions, poker players take their first poker "baby steps" not in the legal cardrooms of California, Nevada, and an ever-growing number of other states (and countries), but in private games, often held in someone's kitchen or basement, or perhaps a dorm room at college. ... More
Tournament poker's nature makes it an inescapable mathematical necessity that the vast majority of entrants in any given tournament are going to bust out sooner than they had hoped they would. Most of these folks lose their buy-in, and a few make the money but don't climb the ladder as high as they'd like. ... More
Recently my friend George visited me from England. George adores poker but rarely plays above 6-12 and who prefers 3-6 or 4-8 (in the pot-limit games that are much more common in his homeland, he finds a small one). He wanted to play a lot of poker while he was here, but because the main purpose of his visit was to spend time with me (there's no accounting for taste), we had two choices: either he had to pl ... More
Few poker players have the judgment and confidence to make a big laydown (folding a very strong hand when presented with evidence that you’re up against an even stronger hand). ... More
For five hours, I watched Dave "Devilfish" Ulliott, one of England's and indeed the world's greatest poker players, put on a virtuoso performance in the $1,500 (with rebuys) pot-limit Omaha event at the World Series of Poker. He got better and better, especially as the game got shorthanded. ... More
I'm writing this as I sit in the LA airport, en route to the World Poker Open in Tunica, Mississippi. I got here plenty early, to help ensure that I got an exit row. I'm sure the world could care less about my travel plans or techniques, but the substantive nature of those techniques is not why I'm mentioning them. I bring them up because my choice is an example of a technique that will serve you well in yo ... More
Last issue, while working my way through a mea culpa about how, after three days of superb play, I self-destructed in two hands, I mentioned that while stuck in a tough preflop spot (A-10 vs. A-K and 10-10), I almost escaped when three spades flopped and I was holding the A. ... More
For quite a long time, most but not all no-limit hold'em experts have been adherents to the principles behind "small-bet poker." By "small-bet poker," I mean a style in which players prefer to avoid hands where all their chips can be at risk, even if they are fairly certain they are leading in the hand. ... More
You've probably already read last issue's story about how Greg Raymer defeated David Williams in a seven-hand showdown at the end of the 2004 World Series of Poker championship event, and depending on what order you're reading this issue, you may or may not have read more about the event's top finishers' backgrounds. I was lucky enough to get to spend some quality time with David Williams a few days after t ... More
I started gambling quite early in life, encouraged not merely by (of all people) my mother, but also from information I gleaned from what was then a new (but ultimately short-running) television show called Alias Smith and Jones. ... More
Pocket pairs are often very desirable starting hands in hold’em, although just how desirable depends a great deal on position, which pocket pair you hold, how many other players are in the hand, and the kind of game (loose or tight) in which you’re playing. ... More
Last issue, under the title "The Enemy of My Enemy is My Friend," I discussed a seeming paradox: how the presence of more than one opponent in a pot could create winning chances that you could never obtain in a one-on-one situation. ... More
I was tempted to call this article "The Biggest Mistake You Can Make Playing Poker Online," but I realized that the "heads I win, tails you lose" scenario of playing in a room that takes your money when it goes under is bigger. It doesn't matter how good the games are, or what kind of odds you're getting, if you don't get paid when you win. ... More
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