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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"Never" and "always" are two of my least favorite words in the English language, especially when it comes to analyzing almost anything about poker. ... 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
“Welcome,” I said, picking up and answering a Wednesday, May 21, 2003, telephone call I knew to be from my sister, “to The House of Pain.” If that phrase sounds familiar, it’s because about 25 years ago, Houston Oilers fans used to hold up signs bearing that warning in their home stadium, the Astrodome, in a modest effort to intimidate visiting teams. The PA announcer used to do a nice evil Vincent Price ... More
Although I am starting to believe that pot-limit hold'em is a tougher poker game than no-limit hold'em (an issue for another day) most people still consider no-limit the "Cadillac" of poker games, a line first attributed to the great Doyle Brunson. ... More
Last issue, I had the audacity to claim that no-limit hold’em might not still be the “Cadillac” of poker games (losing out to pot-limit), primarily because of the way it’s being played these days: lots of stacks getting shoved all in before the flop, and lots of crossed fingers and held breath after the flop. ... More
If I'd felt I was the best player in the field, I'd have been less concerned with pot odds: I'd want a situation where I had a bigger edge. T.J. Cloutier probably would have folded even with the same read, but I'm not T.J. Cloutier, and there were a lot of terrific players left aside from Blank. ... More
The last two tournaments I've played, I've wound up with the successful professional Kathy Liebert at my table each time, which I've viewed as a kind of good news-bad news situation. ... 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 couple of weeks ago, I came across Jan Fisher's column, "My No-Limit Hold'em Learning Curve Lesson". Jan analyzed a hand from the WPT Celebrity Invitational that she thought she'd misplayed. If I may be so bold as to judge, I think Jan came to lots of correct conclusions, but omitted some points that seemed relevant to me (probably because I was involved in the hand). ... More
I found one of the best and most accurate statements I have ever heard about poker in the Prologue to Jesse May’s poker novel, Shut Up and Deal: “Poker is a combination of luck and skill. People think mastering the skill part is hard, but they’re wrong. The trick to poker is mastering the luck.” ... More
Online poker is one of the most popular online industries there is and with good reason. A good online poker player can actually make a living for him or herself without ever leaving the house, and even bad online poker players can improve and have fun doing it. Here?s what you need to know to play online poker. ... More
Fifty million Americans have played poker, and at a rough estimate I have derived from 30 years of playing at kitchen tables, college frat houses, serious home games, and high stakes casinos, about 49,990,000 play poker pretty badly. ... More
Lately, I discussed a $2-$4 hold'em session at Commerce Casino in which I was playing with my friend George sitting on my right. A new acquaintance and a relatively new poker player, Kirk Noda, was sitting to my left during that session, and had been an engaging, friendly opponent. At one point after George and I had been rather aggressively debating one of George's plays, Kirk piped in by commenting, "The ... More
David Sklansky, in his wonderful book The Theory of Poker, discusses the "penny wise and pound foolish" error at length. A mistake that costs you one bet is a small error; worth avoiding, certainly, but only a small error. A mistake that costs you an entire pot is a disaster. In the kind of pots that most low-stake poker players play, a pot is often 10 to 20 times the size of one big bet. ... More
What should you do when you're in a poker game and it's clear to you that one or more of your opponents can play far better than you? It's a common situation, and before I jump into it, I first tip my cap to Wendeen Eolis, who came up with the idea. ... More
I've mentioned, or been asked about, the story that follows enough times in passing or in short form to justify finally giving the full version and being done with it. The biographical material (about which you might not care) aside, you might want to look at it as an exercise in mathematics, as a problem in calculating odds based on incomplete information, and perhaps eventually as a means of looking beyon ... More
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