Traveling…

March 2nd: I’m 39,000 feet up on a plane home from Sydney. Sadly, no WiFi. Then again maybe for the better. I’ve already slept 5 hours on this flight and if there was WiFi I’d be up playing poker the whole time. Regardless of if I sleep or not, I’m still going to be fucked [...]

WSOP Academy

This weekend I taught yet another WSOP Academy. One thing I love it when I see familiar faces at these academies. It is very gratifying when people are coming back for more! Also, this weekend I got more comments that students had learned more in an hour of the WSOP Academy than they had in [...]

The $100 Re-Buy

I really love the new UB tourney schedule, Richard and Annie put a lot of work into it, and i can honestly say they nailed it. There are a few other I would like to see added such as a MTT that would let players win step ten tickets. But the  #1 I want to [...]

Tight Is Indeed Right

Why do people play poker? There are all sorts of reasons–for the competition, the action, the unique sense of camaraderie shared by people who gather around a poker table. But there’s one reason that’s almost universal–people like to win. They like the giddiness that comes when a big pot is pushed their way, the sense [...]

#941 – Is Andy Beal Back in Vegas Playing Poker?

Google sends me an alert whenever something appears online mentioning my name and Andy Beal’s. (Mostly, it’s a way for me to collect reviews and comments from readers of SUICIDE KING.) Over the past day and a half, there has been a thread on the Two-Plus-Two forum titled “Andy Beal Back in Town?”
You have to [...]

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#941 – Is Andy Beal Back in Vegas Playing Poker?

#931 – Taking a Break

This is really unusual, but I’m taking a week off from playing poker online. The only time I’ve done that all year has been when I was at the World Series of Poker, so it was hardly “a break.” I’ll be doing work on the Blog during that time, but I’m getting away from playing [...]

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#931 – Taking a Break

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Capturing small edges

Recently I have not been grinding as many tournaments for countless hours of the day as I used to.  When I do play, it’s usually less games and bigger buy-ins.  This decrease in games and increase in focus has been less stressful and profitable.  Over the course of the holidays, most of the daily grinders [...]

Transitions…

There have been so many transitions the last two weeks around here. Obviously, the main transition as far as UB is concerned is the big rebranding. Ultimatebet.com is now UB.com and that is really exciting…mainly because everyone always called Ultimate Bet UB anyway and, honestly, there are fewer ways to mistype it in your browser [...]

Take a Break

Some people might think playing poker it is just a matter of saying: I call, I raise or I fold. I guess all that people have never played poker as you and I, along with millions of online and live Poker players know that it is a tough job not so many can handle. You [...]

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