Robbie Strazynski

Tilt can creep up on any player, no matter how experienced. Even if you’ve seen numerous bad beats in your life and have developed thick skin, as a human being you are inherently open to the potential of tilting while playing poker.

How to best avoid tilt? Have a look at this article for some valuable tips to keep you cool, calm and collected as often as possible while playing.

Nothing bonds a group of friends together like playing in the same home game for years. When one of the players heads out to play in a big-time poker tournament, it goes without saying that the rest of the bunch will rally to support him. Often, however, it’s not possible to rail in person.

This is the story of how a group of home game players in Israel rallied together to virtually rail their buddy, Amnon Eisner (on WhatsApp), while he was playing in the 2017 Philadelphia Poker Classic Main Event, almost 6,000 miles away.

This originally started out as “just” a blog post, but I felt that since it marks one of the most momentous occasions since the inception of Cardplayer Lifestyle, it deserved a video as well.

I’ve quit my full-time job and have embarked on a journey of self-employment to do poker media work on Cardplayer Lifestyle. Read more about the beginning of a new era for me and you can also watch the video.

Together with my co-host Bruce Briggs, I recently had the great pleasure of interviewing ESPN poker commentator and funnyman Norman Chad on episode 282 of the Top Pair Home Game Poker Podcast.

We put a lot of time and effort into doing research prior to the interview to ensure that we covered topics not yet explored in-depth via other interviews Norman has done over the years. As such, we were thrilled to get some great laughs and new stories from Norman in this almost hour-long interview.

Listen to the interview, which starts at the 3:45-minute mark. A transcript is also available.

Many younger poker players started playing online and eventually transitioned to the live poker arena. There are, however, plenty of longtime live poker players who’ve never really played much online and might be hesitant to give it a chance.

If you’re thinking about dipping your toes in the online poker waters for the first time, it pays – literally – to be prepared. As such, we’ve prepared a list of six helpful tips that will help m=you make a smooth transition from live to online poker play.

Eli Elezra, a worldwide fan favorite among poker lovers, has finally released his long-awaited biography. He returned home to his native Israel for a book signing and launch party that we were invited to attend.

Check out what went down, read Eli’s remarks to his hometown crowd, find out what the book’s about and watch our exclusive highlight video.

The all-time money list will always be a hot topic of discussion in the poker world. With the amounts won and places occupied by the players constantly in flux due to numerous high roller events taking place around the world each year, we take a quick snapshot at the current top five names on the list, how much they’ve won, and how they got there.

Live poker grinder Andrew Neeme has risen to superstardom as a first-rate poker vlogger over the last few months. Amassing over 50,000 subscribers, he’s strung together a series of dozens of videos that provide a never-before-seen window into the poker lifestyle of a Vegas grinder.

Andrew was gracious enough to grant us this feature-length interview in which we covered a whole range of subjects, well beyond just his vlogging. His is a story we’re absolutely certain you’ll enjoy reading.

Finally the world decides to pay attention to poker, but the story they’re interested in is that Libratus, an artificial intelligence program devised by researchers at Carnegie Mellon University, beat humans at the game. How sad.

Sometimes you have to swim against the tide. With mainstream media shouting to the heavens that “humans are doomed at poker”, I felt the need to pen an op-ed in defense of humanity. Let’s not forget what makes poker so engaging and enjoyable: it’s the PEOPLE! That’s what the world ought to be paying more attention to.

While I take special pleasure in learning the stories of poker media’s industry veterans, I also enjoy getting to know more about relative newcomers, like Will O’Connor.

The Borgata blogger-cum-Poker Central writer was kind enough to agree to be the next interviewee in our Get to Know the Poker Media series. I sure enjoyed learning about his life and career, so I’m sure you will, too.

For 2017, I’m setting my poker goals as well as recapping and assessing my efforts at achieving my 2016 poker goals within the same post. So, it’s a long read, but working hard on this post and publishing it, as always, help me stay focused for the coming year.

Here’s to working hard towards the goals we set in 2017, both poker-related and non-poker-related. Happy New Year!

This is an exclusive interview with two poker legends, Poker Hall of Famer Linda Johnson and Women in Poker Hall of Famer Jan Fisher. Over the course of the interview, we discuss each of their storied careers, various business ventures, and the 25-year anniversary of their company, Card Player Cruises.

Whether you know them personally, have only heard about them and their stellar reputations secondhand from poker industry veterans, or this is your first exposure to the dynamic duo, I know that you’ll enjoy learning even more about them in this feature-length piece.