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!
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Unless you’ve never read a good poker book or this is the first time you’ve ever picked up a poker magazine, you have already that abusing weaker players at the table is a bad idea. What you probably haven’t read or learned is just how many different ways this practice hurts you. Instead of just saying “Don’t abuse players who make bad plays or draw out on you,” then, because you’ve already heard that eno ... More
In a society where money talks, where the winners not only get to write the history books, but to act however they please, you can't usually point to a second-place finish as the moment in time when you can say, "This is when a man defined his greatness." ... More
The just-completed 32nd annual World Series of Poker offered the poker world quite a few moments that it won't ever forget. ... More
At the 2003 World Series of Poker, six players, all more or less established stars, won two bracelets each, and final table after final table (especially in the pot-limit and no-limit events) was filled with star players. Everyone agreed that this was the result of what was then a new tournament structure that required a bit more luck in the early going, but through which the blinds and antes increased very ... More
Poker is the ultimate context game: holding identical cards all the way around, the right play against Opponent X can be the wrong play against Opponent Y, and the right play against Opponent X under Circumstance A can be the wrong play against that same Opponent X if Circumstance A changes to Circumstance A-1(b). ... More
If it isn't the oldest bad doctor joke in history, it's probably close: A guy goes to the doctor, moves his arm in a funky way, and says, "Doc, it hurts when I do this." ... More
Editor's note: This is one in a series of articles originally written for an Internet website the 2001 World Series of Poker tournament events. ... More
I recently watched a friend play some very high-stakes Internet poker: He was playing two games at once, one a $100-$200 hold’em game and the other an $80-$160 Omaha eight-or-better game. ... More
As I mentioned last issue, I served as the technical advisor for the recently completed movie based on the life of three-time World Series of Poker Champion Stu Ungar, Stuey. I also had a role playing myself as one of the ESPN announcers for the 1997 World Series of Poker (in reality the announcers were Phil Hellmuth and Gabe Kaplan, but in Hollywood they turned it into boxing announcer Al Bernstein and me) ... More
What Makes a Good Poker Book? What should a good poker book do for you? What should a good poker author deliver to you? ... More
Thanks in no small part to what television has meant for poker in the last year, tournaments have never been as popular as they are now. The prize pools have grown so large that even many good money players who used to shun tournaments, fearing that their profitable anonymity might vanish, have decided the money is too big to ignore, and the ancillary benefits — matters such as endorsements — are now potent ... More
I was badly torn between two titles for this column, which relates a true story I believe will provide you with an easy-to-remember example of a useful poker lesson. The other option was Sed Quis Custodiet Ipsos Custudios, Latin for, "But who is to guard the guards themselves?" (You remember Latin, that's the language former Vice President Dan Quayle apologized for not being able to speak when he went to La ... More
I'm writing this from lovely Costa Rica, my fourth trip here. The first was for a backgammon tournament in 1995, and the last three have been more recent ventures to take part in the tournaments hosted by Nick Gullo and Casinos Europa. ... More
A few weeks ago, I was sweating a friend in a high-stakes poker game in Los Angeles. He'll remain nameless here, because I'm going to go into details he shared off the record. ... More
My opponent exchanged eight reraises with me into a board that read A 5 2 9 3 before he finally called and said, "No reason to raise anymore, I guess we have the same hand," a pretty interesting comment since there was a potential flush out there, and he turned over his A-4 off54suit for the second-nut straight. My A K took the pot, and he realized, quite embarrassed, that he hadn't seen the flush possibili ... More
If you followed my World Series of Poker web coverage, you saw that I encountered an embarrassing moment when I confused one Nordic youth who yelled "yaaaaaaaaa, yaaaaaaaaa, yaaaaaaaaa" when he hit a card that knocked out an opponent from another who gave exactly the same war cry. I've already apologized online, so there is no need to go into specifics here. ... More
A reader from across the pond recently sent me an E-mail decrying the lack of good books about pot-limit and no-limit poker. He's a relative novice, and like most Europeans finds that most of the games near his home are pot-limit. He has been trying to learn by reading books, but the vast majority of poker books focus on limit poker, and he wanted to know if he could actually be hurting his pot-limit poker ... More
I've just returned home from another of those "almost could have been but wasn't" tournaments, the $540 buy-in no-limit hold'em event at Commerce Casino's L.A. Poker Classic, and my eyes grew so wide a few times, I thought I might be able to start limbering them up for imitating one of the best stares in poker, "The Juanda" (John). John is one of poker's nicest people and greatest players, but when he start ... More
I just returned from the opening evening of The Bicycle Casino's monthlong Legends of Poker tournament, which featured a media/casino charity tag-team event. The Bike went all out with decorations that showed off some of the quality improvements made to the Grand Ballroom (tournament area), a buffet that even Mike Paulle couldn't have demolished single-handedly, and a screening of the preview video for the ... More
While many of us like to talk about "a friendly little game of poker," let's face it, even when we're playing with people we like, we're really playing against them, not with them. Although certainly more civilized than violent conflict, successful poker is a kind of warfare, full of strategy, tactics, traps, small battles that serve as preludes to more important conflicts, feints, aggression, focusing on w ... More
Ever since my dear friend (and no matter what you read from here on out, that characterization is accurate) Max Shapiro dissembled a bit (a polite phrase for "lied his ass off") in his official report for The Bicycle Casino's Legends of Poker media tag team event, the Poker Pundit and the Read 'Em and Laugh guy have been playing a fun game of "tag, you’re it." ... More
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