Ancient Gambling We’re back sifting through the cultural layer for something resembling modernity and natured order. This time examining how our ancient ancestors gambled, what they played, what forfeits their losses incurred, and how those early degens formed the basis of today’s games. …

Dead Man’s Hand in Poker The Macabre Tale of the Dead Man’s Hand, or How to Play Eights & Aces When You’re Dead With wits as oxygen tanks and imagination our sole anchor to the now, we’re back for another deepdive into history’s dirty mirror. …

Biggest Live Poker Scandals Introduction Nothing excites like a scandal. A Scandal in Bohemia for Mr Sherlock Holmes. A scandal in the tabloids, ever a favourite of gossiping masses. Scandal is a primordial element, like fear and creation itself; we can trace scandal’s history to antiquity with shamed Roman aristocrats and before them, disgraced Etruscans…

How to become a Croupier According to nationalcareerservices.co.uk a croupier makes between 14K and 25K sterling per annum. A decent wage for a career with opportunities for upward growth, and that’s not even factoring these fortunate ‘right place right time’ moments in a croupier’s life when some wealthy patron, perhaps a Texas oil baron with…

Mindset Hacks: Poker Psychology Hello again, From tracking softwares to guidebooks to observation and careful study, improving your graphs in the post-net world is easier than ever before. A hundred years ago if you wanted to improve your EV you had to sneak out the bedroom window, rappel down the house, make your way…

A Brief History of Poker Unlike a history of poker in briefs, thoroughly covered in our strip poker dressdown, this will be a compendium as concise as the facts and tugged strands permit. Regular readers will have already noted my penchant for the past. Even in the Omaha strategy articles I like to digress into…

We’ve come a long way since our grand opening way back when. …

What are the Single Biggest Poker Winnings Ever? Hello everyone. Back from the brink with another eye-beer for you to down, then shake your head and shout ‘God, these are good.’ This week, we’re talking winning. Charlie Sheen style. Tiger blood. The warrior’s prize. Victory is glory is victory is glory. Online searches yield numerous results for the…

Omaha Poker Strategy When I checked the content schedule to find our next outing was down the gold paved road of Omaha, my heart leapt for the fortuitous coincidence of it all. Just as we follow that winding yellowbrickroad to June’s $100K Omaha fest, what’s more useful to our delightful Omaholics and would-be…