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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Be careful what you ask for, you might get it.Following an extraordinarily long first day of the opening $2,000 Limit Hold'em event here at the World Series of Poker, I was keeping my fingers crossed that we might have a final table that ended before my flight out of here early Monday morning. ... More
I have just returned from the World Gaming Expo, in Las Vegas, a big gaming industry trade show, and so like so many of my Las Vegas trips these days, it was mostly business with little time for pleasures like poker. ... More
Many of the advanced poker books I've read do a wonderful job of teaching poker like a science designed to do one thing: extract money from one's opponents. The authors seem to believe that any energy one exerts on other matters is a waste of time, and distracts the player from The Poker Lord of Creation, "E.V." ("expected value"; that is, the amount of money one rates to make in a given game over the long ... More
People play poker for a lot of reasons. Some play for the money, some for the companionship, some for the intellectual challenge, some for the gaming thrill, and quite a few because the poker table provides the one place in their lives where they can run their mouths without fear. ... More
Beginning poker players and advanced poker players rarely concern themselves with the same questions, but there is one question that virtually all poker players, regardless of skill, ask themselves on a regular basis: how much luck is there in poker? ... More
On one of my favorite W.C. Fields movies, THE BANK DICK, a fast-talking con man convinces Fields' dim-witted associate to embezzle bank funds in order to invest in the con man's "Beefsteak Mine" stock. ... More
Although business called me home before the recently completed championship event at the World Poker Open in Tunica, Mississippi, I did arrive in time to play a few preliminaries, and to talk to some of the folks who play the tournament circuit. ... More
You can find my "10 Basic Rules of Gambling" in Chapter 40 of Casino Gambling the Smart Way, and those rules are worth a review before any casino trip. In a poker game earlier today, I re-learned (the hard way, as opposed to the smart way) a long-forgotten addendum to Rule #3. Before we examine this sad and instructive tale, let’s make sure you’re up to speed on the original rule. ... More
A reader recently wrote to me and asked, "What advice would you give a young person (mid 20's blue-collar job) who is considering becoming a full-time professional poker player? What is a proper bankroll? $10-$20 is my target game." Because this question is one that a great many successful amateur poker players consider, I think the answer is worth a main page article. ... More
One of the reasons a lot of people play poker is to be able to engage in conduct that isn’t acceptable in other arenas. I’m part of that group: I have a sneaky side that I love to indulge, but my beliefs about honorable dealings in business and in my personal life keep me (without complaint) from acting sneakily in most interactions. ... More
I'd been sitting down in one of my favorite live and tournament poker games, Seven-Card Stud (Eight-or-Better for low) for about half an hour recently when something odd happened. I'd known I was in for an unusual night because a friend of mine who was playing in a different game told me he'd spoken to someone playing in the game. This soon-to-be competitor told my friend he was "terrified" of playing agai ... More
If you’ve read more than four articles about poker, you’ve probably by now read how important it is to keep records. Just in case you haven’t, the most commonly cited reasons are: ... More
Reader letters often prompt thinking that helps me with my own game and occasionally provide fodder to help you do the same, so I encourage you to write in. Don't worry that you're "bothering" me. I might not always be able to take the time for an in-depth analysis, but you'll hear from me, and if you don't, write back and shame me into a reply. Usually when that happens, I provide a much more in-depth answ ... More
Although beginners are correct to spend most of their poker education time learning poker fundamentals like what hands beat what other hands, the odds that one will hit certain draws, and how much it will likely pay off it one hits a draw (hmm, come to think of it, I think I just came up with next issue’s beginner article, because beginners may make more mistakes with drawing hands than any other kind), the ... More
If you're a Star Trek fan, you're going to love this column. If you aren't, don't quit on me: you're going to learn a lot about the skills and personality traits necessary to become a successful poker player, and I promise not to require any prior Star Trek knowledge for the reader to benefit from this analysis. ... More
Whether you choose to thank Steve Lipscomb and Chris Moneymaker, or the Travel Channel and ESPN (with shows like Bravo's new Celebrity Poker Challenge helping to keep the momentum going), you have probably never faced so many inexperienced players, no matter what limits you chose to play. ... More
Baseball fans, at least those over age 30, might remember a rather famous book by Jim Bouton called Ball Four. Although the matters it revealed were rather mundane by today’s "tell it all" standards, at the time it was published, Ball Four broke new ground in telling baseball fans about what life as a major league ballplayer was REALLY like. ... More
Many poker theoreticians-especially those who focus more on mathematical analysis than on psychological aspects-will tell you that the only reasons to leave a game are performance related. That is, get out if you're tired (or for some other reason are not playing your best game), you're on tilt, or the other players are better than you. ... More
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When it comes to betting, alcohol can be your enemy. While beer and cigars tend to go hand in hand with poker night, alcohol is not recommended if you're going to play in a casino, especially if the stakes are a little higher.
