The Oracle's Corner

This hand comes from Commerce Casino in Los Angeles. The game is no-limit hold'em with $50-$100 blinds. The minimum buy-in for the game is $5,000, but most players have at least $20,000 in front of them, and sometimes much more. On occasion, when Kenny Tran is hosting his regulars, it is not...

Thursday Sep 18, 2008

published 3 months ago in
Card Player Magazine Volume 21, Number 18

The Oracle's Corner

This hand comes from a $25-$50 pot-limit Omaha (PLO) cash game on Full Tilt. PLO is enjoying a growth in popularity both online and live. There is considerably more gamble and thought involved in a four-card game, in which you must use two cards from your hand, than there is in no-limit...

Thursday Sep 11, 2008

published 3 months ago in
Card Player Magazine Volume 21, Number 17

The Oracle's Corner

This hand comes from the 2008 Bellagio Cup IV, and it involved two of the greatest players in the game - Lee Markholt and David "The Dragon" Pham - and me. It was day 3, we were in the money, and the play at this table was very aggressive, with reraising preflop happening on many hands....

Tuesday Aug 19, 2008

published 4 months ago in
Card Player Magazine Volume 21, Number 16

The Oracle's Corner

This hand comes from the 2008 World Series of Poker main event, day 1A, and is just unbelievable. I thought I busted out on a rough hand, but this is just plain dirty. The poker gods must have laughed themselves silly with this one. One good thing about the end of the WSOP is that no more...

Wednesday Jul 23, 2008

published 5 months ago in
Card Player Magazine Volume 21, Number 14

The Oracle's Corner

This hand took place in the World Poker Tour Championship in April 2008 at Bellagio. Phil Hellmuth actually wrote about this hand in the Vol. 21/No. 12 issue of Card Player, but he left out some pertinent situational facts, and thought he was playing Michael Binger, instead of Michael's...

Wednesday Jul 09, 2008

published 6 months ago in
Card Player Magazine Volume 21, Number 13

The Oracle's Corner

This hand comes from the final table of event No. 4 of the World Series of Poker, $5,000 mixed hold'em. Five players remained: Erick Lindgren, Justin Bonomo, David Rheem, Andrew Robl, and Roland De Wolfe. This was the best final table I have seen yet at this year's WSOP. The level of play...

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