Two Plus Two Magazine, Vol. 16, No. 8

Recently, I’ve been on a couple of poker podcasts and one of the things I’ve talked about is poker mental coaching and why I’m so critical of it. The following is from page 169 - 171 of our book Poker and More written by David Sklansky and myself and is from the psychology section which I wrote. It’s really all you need to know to understand why I believe that most of the poker mental coaching is fairly worthless. more ...

My background is in online poker game integrity. Game integrity is the sometimes nonexistent division of a poker site that protects players from getting cheated by other players. The bigger the site, the more game integrity is needed. Small sites can often get away with one person managing the entire site’s game integrity department. Some sites don’t even have a game integrity department. more ...

Many of my poker students really want to play tournaments but feel that they just take way too long. They are well studied recreational players who have jobs and families that take up time that they cannot spend on a poker tournament. For this reason, many of them play single or multi table SNGs that require them to be at the computer for less time. First place money in a SNG is much less than what they can win in a tournament though. For this reason, more...