Lat week I had the honor of giving the keynote address at the Women in Poker Hall of Fame dinner. I have had a few requests to post the speech I gave so in response to that I am posting it here. Enjoy and let’s meet the 10% challenge! I am so honored to be [...]

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I stopped by The Big  Book Show a few weeks ago to talk about my new book with one of my favorite people, Adam Curry. How awesome is it that I can be in the same room with someone I grew up watching on TV. My life is SURREAL!  In the best possible way, obviously. [...]

Editing this post already as there was yet another amazing review put up today that actually choked me up!  Added below you can see it. It is the second review posted here. Okay. Some what of a brag post. But this new review went up on Amazon today for Decide to Play Great Poker and [...]

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So I was giving a lesson yesterday to some really nice kids who had won the private instruction through a charity auction. I was talking about how so many poker books give you rules on how to play, rules like: Always raise if you are first into the pot Always make it 3 times the [...]

Well, Decide to Play Great Poker was officially released this week. Very exciting for me and my superb coauthor, John Vorhaus. The reviews are starting to come in and…they are GOOD! Here’s the thing, as I say in my acknowledgments in the book, writing this book was really hard for me. And by hard, I [...]

One of the key messages of Decide to Play Great Poker is that every decision at the table should have a clear rational. Your actions should have clear purpose. The excerpt below is from the section of the book on understanding what the purpose of raising a hand preflop is. You’d be surprised how many [...]

While Decide to Play Great Poker mostly covers decision making regarding playing strategy, the last 70 pages or so focuses on decisions regarding bankroll management and emotional control. The fact is that you can be the best poker play on the planet when you are playing your A game but if you can’t manage your [...]

Before getting to the excerpt below, let me tell you a little about how Decide to Play Great Poker (written by me and my wonderful coauthor John Vorhaus) works. The first part of the book covers pre-flop decisions.  The second section of the book covers post-flop play and take a pretty thorough and unique approach to [...]