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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About a year ago, one of my best friends, the outstanding gaming writer Michael Konik, wrote a book called Telling Lies and Getting Paid. This isn't a review of that book; I've already done that and recommended it. Rather, we're going to look at just when it is and isn't acceptable to "lie" at a poker table. ... 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
The number of players trying their hand at real money poker online is growing daily. Even people who live in the poker capital of the world, Los Angeles, play online frequently. They don’t have to drive to the cardroom, they might want to play for just an hour or so late at night, and if they have some bad live “tells” they might not give the same information away online. ... More
I'm big on fairness, and one of my fundamental rules of fairness is, "If you're going to dish it out, you have to be willing to take it." The rule's application in life is practically endless, but it has more than a few poker applications, too. If you tell bad-beat stories, you'd better be ready to listen to some. If you criticize someone else's play, you'd better be willing to accept criticism of your own ... More
When the pride of Madrid, Spain, 29-year-old Carlos Mortensen, got heads up with 54-year-old American Dewey Tomko at 6:50 p.m. on Friday, May 18, at the end of the 2001 World Series of Poker no-limit hold'em championship, I knew I'd soon be seeing stories that played off Mortensen's roots by saying that the final man-to-man duel was "mano a mano." ... More
In the 1989 movie Batman, Jack Nicholson, playing the dual role of Jack Napier and The Joker, always asks his prey, "Ever dance with the Devil in the pale moonlight?" ... More
Opportunities for learning more about poker via watching “holecard exposed” TV have been appearing in Europe ever since the British Late Night Poker show and the Poker Million, and much more recently in the United States via the World Poker Tour and ESPN's seven-part special on the 2003 World Series of Poker. ... More
Whether or not you should choose to PLAY online poker for money depends on a number of variables, including but not limited to: ... 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
Every once in a while, I run across a fundamentally important poker principle that almost always opens a beginning or intermediate player's eyes wide open, as if those eyes were saying, "Wow, I've just learned something really important, something that takes me up a level, something that will really change my game. I can't believe I didn't figure this out before, but wow, this is dynamite, I am officially i ... More
When poker players shift away from the seven-card stud family of games and start playing hold'em, they must get used to posting blind bets instead of antes, and to using a dealer button to indicate the dealer's position. ... More
Poker often yields many life metaphors. Sometimes life offers us a poker metaphor. Today I want to discuss how someone from basketball history and political present can teach us all some important poker lessons. ... More
In my earlier article, "Score One for Online Poker," I discussed the virtues of taking notes about your own play while playing online, and by way of example, I discussed a play where a hypothetical player got in trouble playing J-Q suited in a limit poker game. ... More
Probably the single biggest reason why most players, both beginning and advanced, lose in poker is that they play too many hands. ... More
The object of poker is to win money, rather than to make a big hand. Often a beginning player will ask me “What is a good hand?” and I’ll say, “It depends.” A royal flush can’t lose, but if everyone folds when you bet it, and you only win the blinds or antes, it certainly isn’t your best hand of the night. Four Kings sounds like a terrific hand, but if someone else has four Aces, four Kings would be a night ... More
Until the stakes get so high that one evening's winnings can pay a family's living expenses for a year (and I know plenty of people who play in games that big!), just about every poker player faces the same worst enemy. No, it's not that sharper, more experienced player in seat #4. Although it's likely that most of the time when you sit down to play poker, there will be at least one player who's better t ... More
In general, I'm a big fan of poker tournaments. On a personal level, I perform better in tournaments than I do in ring games (a fact that tells me I have some work to do on my patience in ring games). But as a writer and teacher, I'm also a fan of tournaments, because: ... More
WNP readers who have been around for a while might remember the 2001 World Series of Poker $10,000 Championship Event, where I made an eleventh hour decision not to enter because I was physically and emotionally exhausted from a month of writing combined with two deaths in the family. ... More
The second-most commonly submitted questions that come to me arrive in some variation of "How should I mix using books with playing to gain experience, and which books should I read?" (The most common question, sigh, usually involves someone asking about hand rankings, like whether a flush beats a straight. No, I'm not kidding. We all have to start somewhere.) ... More
If there is one consistent theme to my articles here, it's that the words "always" and "never," or indeed any synonyms that refer to absolute concepts in poker, RARELY belong in a good poker instructional piece. ... More
I've spent so much time hanging out with professional poker players the last few years that I've started getting caught up in some of their beliefs—chiefly, that "home town champs" or "tourists" have no realistic chance to win when they visit Las Vegas or Atlantic City and play in high stakes side games or big tournaments. I still believe that players who don't play tournaments on a fairly regular basis fa ... More
I think I'm starting to change my mind about the virtues of online poker. Although I'll never be able to see my opponent's neck veins pulsing online, I've been playing a fair amount online lately and I'm starting to recognize some tremendous potential for improving one's regular poker game. ... More
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