This longtime poker media outlet is embarking on new venture to deliver top-rated poker content and interviews via poker podcasts. The newly-created Cardplayer Lifestyle Podcast Family will initially consist of two member shows, the Bernard Lee Poker Show and the Top Pair Home Game Poker Podcast.
New shows are slated to join the family in the coming months, and all shows will benefit from co-promotion and thus an enhanced, larger audience of poker fans and enthusiasts.
Reading about the baller lifestyles of successful online poker players might make someone want to pursue the game professionally. If you make that choice, however, you’ve got to be ready to put in the work to make success happen.
In this article we offer seven tips and pieces of advice you must commit to following in order to try and achieve success as an online poker pro.
Hockey players and poker players have a good deal in common, namely a massive drive to compete and win. Some of the NHL’s greatest players would undoubtedly see success at the poker tables and be fun and inspiring to watch at the felt.
Here’s our list of five top hockey players who we’d absolutely love to see playing poker in 2020.
There are many lapsed fans of poker out there; people who fell in love with the game in its Golden Era, but haven’t followed the game too closely ever since Black Friday in 2011. This brief recap article explains what’s gone on in the online poker landscape in the United States over the past decade and how the torch has been passed to a new crop of professional players in the live poker realm.
Just ahead of jetting off for the first time in 2020 to do some poker media coverage at the 888poker LIVE Festival in Madrid, Spain, I list the top five things I’m looking forward to and excited about.
From exploring a new city to mingling with fellow poker enthusiasts and much more, it’ll be a blast and I can’t wait to tell you all about it.
Poker beginners quickly learn to familiarize themselves with the concept of outs. One additional idea they need to learn and internalize is that one’s number of outs can change as a hand progresses.
Our Senior contributor, George Epstein, analyzes a sample hand from limit hold’em to illustrate this key concept of outs changing.
Cardplayer Lifestyle’s Senior contributor George Epstein recently penned an article entitled “Creating the Poker Player.” One of our readers, Jesse James, took the time to craft an excellent response, which George shares, analyses, and replies to in this article.
A recent visit to Commerce Casino got Christina Bradfield wondering about all manner of things. You know, typical poker-related things like weed smoking and card room gift shop panties. Just another night at the poker tables…
Tadas Peckaitis knows what it’s like to not want to play poker anymore, but he always keeps coming back to play again and again. How? Because he also keeps falling in love with the game over and over again.
Here are the top three ways in which Tadas immerses himself in love for poker while away from the tables and study sessions. They’ll probably work for you, too.
Poker players have long believed that they play a skill game with elements of luck. If you can better control the luck elements, however, you stand a better chance of winning.
WSOP bracelet winner Chris Wallace has figured out a number of ways to improve one’s luck at the poker table and for the first time ever he’s decided to share four of his top strategies in that regard. You don’t want to miss this!
While online poker is, technically, the same game, there have been numerous changes that have taken place over the last decade that have affected online poker play, not the least of which was Black Friday back in 2011. This article briefly reviews the major changes.
Poker forums have plenty to offer poker players, so they shouldn’t be dismissed as outdated by any means. In this article, Tadas Peckaitis shares his top three reasons for visiting poker forums.
Which poker players are likely to have a great 2020? Geoff Fisk has compiled his top 10 list, and it’s a great one.
Lest you think it’s just a rundown of the top-ranked or top-earning players of 2019, there are some surprises here to be sure!
When you look around a poker room at the mid-stakes tables, there’s one thing you don’t see too much of, and that’s women. Amanda Botfeld, author of A Girl’s Guide to Poker, knows what it’s like to be “the odd one out.”
As someone who regularly sits at the $2/5 tables playing live cash games, Amanda shares what the experience is like, and puts the call out for other girls to join her at the poker tables.
Sky Matsuhashi made the leap from live to online poker so he knows just how mentally difficult that adjustment can be. In this article, he shares his tips for helping you easily make the adjustment to playing no limit hold’em online.
Tadas Peckaitis gives his top three tips for how to best play gutshot straight draws. More often than not, they’re not worth chasing, but in certain circumstances you can play them effectively to ensure you lose the least and win the most.
We review The Preflop Advantage mobile app, designed to help tournament poker players improve their preflop range skills. With 625 ranges available to learn from, the ability to store ranges locally without any need for internet connectivity, a user-friendly interface, and a $49.99 price point, getting this app would be great value for any tournament poker player.
It’s always a trip to hear great home game poker stories, and it’s truly rare to hear of such stories from over six decades ago. Our Senior contributor George Epstein recently had a dream about his home game that took place back in the early 1950s and decided to share it and some fond memories in this article.
With anything related to online poker, it’s important to separate fact from fiction. In this article we clarify three of the most widely spread myths about online poker and give you nothing but the facts.
2020 has the potential to be your best poker year yet, but it’s largely up to you to make that happen.
In this article poker coach Tadas Peckaitis gives his top three tips to help you achieve that overarching goal of having the best possible poker year.
An attitude of gratitude will take you far in life and enhance your every experience. There are a number of very special people who have impacted my 2019 poker year in exceptional ways, and for that I am supremely grateful.
This blog post is my way of expressing my thanks towards them, and for the good they’ve brought to this poker site and into my life in general this year.
Chris Wallace believes that live tournament poker’s current model is broken. In most other forms of professional competition, sponsorship dollars help pay for the events to take place and players earn winnings from sponsor-provided prize pools. The iNinja Poker Tour owner believes poker should be no different.
Read this op-ed, and perhaps you’ll end up convinced that poker ought to “follow the money” and move to a sponsorship-based model.
While luck plays a factor in poker wins or losses, a player can control their decision-making, and that’s often the factor that determines how a session will go.
In this article, Sky Matsuhashi demonstrates how it’s asking the right questions that will get a poker player on the road to making the correct decisions at the tables.
Run It Once Poker Training is now offering a $200 discount on their Annual Elite Membership.
When one of the world’s top poker training sites announces a special New Year’s Resolution sale, you best take advantage!
We’ve got all the details in this blog post.
Getting a royal flush or quads at the poker table is a true thrill, but incredibly rare. Like horseshoes and hand grenades, “almost” doesn’t count when it comes to making these kinds of hands.
In this post we run the numbers and examine the math behind rare poker hands. They’re even less common than you might think!
Televised poker broadcasts were all the rage back in the game’s golden years, and to a large extent that’s because of the great characters we saw on camera.
In this article, Geoff Fisk reminisces about 10 of the top poker players he’d love to see back on TV, to provide great entertainment for fans once again.
The UK has always been a hotbed of poker activity and 2020 is shaping up to be another stellar year for British poker. In this article we list some of the major poker events on schedule next year that’ll be held throughout the UK.
Some holiday traditions are truly beautiful, none more so than glorious customs of giving. For the ninth straight year, Bernard Lee and his family have put together and distributed personalized gift packages to families in their local area of Boston affected by homelessness.
Reading about the efforts of this great poker player and generous-spirited human being will warm your hearts, and perhaps inspire you to spread some holiday cheer of your own to those less fortunate.
The World Series of Poker is the pinnacle of the poker year. Anyone and everyone who’s into the game hopes and dreams of attending poker’s premiere festival.
Christina Bradfield has worked at the WSOP for numerous summers, but unexpectedly missed the 2019 edition. In this post, she reflects on the fomo of not being on-site during her favorite poker event of the year.
PokerGO’s new game show The Big Blind has debuted to much fanfare within the poker community. Fans and enthusiasts get to test their wits in the poker-themed trivia show alongside some of the game’s most notable names and personalities.
We caught up with the PokerGO team to learn more about how the show gets produced and hope you enjoy this exclusive look behind the scenes at how The Big Blind came together.