I think this is probably a bad rule.

Accepted Action: Poker is a game of observation. It's the players responsibility to ensure the accuracy of another player's bet and/or all-in wager regardless of what is stated by the dealer and/or other players at the table. If a player requests a count but receives incorrect information from the dealer or ( Read more... )

From PokerNews live reporting of Day 1A of the PCA

# 14 minutes ago | Posted by donpeters

Controversy at Negreanu's Table
( lengthy hand description, followed by my thoughts )

I've been playing live poker for over ten years now. Maybe 200 hours or so per year over that span; it's hard to say. And today was most likely the most colourful day of poker I've ever played in my life ( Read more... )

I am out of the $1000 rebuy. Doubled up a short stack stealing with J9s into his KK, then ran my AK into Phil Ivey's KK. Lesson: Don't shove into KK, unless you have AA or are able to suck out. I failed on both fronts ( Read more... )

Wow, lots of diverse opinions ( Read more... )

I'm busted. Short-stacked, doubled through with 99 vs. AK all-in preflop, then lost with AK to JJ all-in pre-flop.

Here's a hypothetical question that didn't actually come up, but which we asked Matt Savage about.

Edit: Voting is now closed. Click here for the conclusion.

Poll floor!

A little of this; a little of that:

The Invisible Clock and the Invisible PlayerI've been greatly annoyed by the fact that it's been often extremely difficult to view the clock in some tournaments. In the $2k limit, everyone at the table looked around completely unable to find a clock for our tournament. I looked around our 40-table quadrant and ( Read more... )

I shit you not, there is a tournament this week called the Johnny Chan Classic here in Vancouver. But he's Johnny Chan, not Terrence Chan, and he busted about 4-5 levels into his own tournament. On the other hand, I am doing fairly well after having turned my 15k into 56k, mostly by just making some big hands and having them hold up more often ( Read more... )

From CardPlayer updates:

Accident or Mind Trick ( Read more... )

They let me out on day parole, so I decided to play the $2000 NLHE that I was bought into via PokerStars. At my starting table was a guy by the name of Brandon Adams, who has a new poker novel out entitled Broke. Brandon gave me a personalized copy at the table. He seems like a nice guy and played well in the time we were together, so I look ( Read more... )