As the WCOOP begins its last few days of tournaments, instead of players seeming weary of the no-limit hold'em action, they cannot seem to get enough. Event 36 brought an opportunity for a NLHE rebuy tournament with short-handed tables, and the takers were certainly not difficult to find. When registration...more

Who said stud poker was dead? Not anyone who has been watching the WCOOP action over the last two weeks. Yesterday, 510 players chose to spend their Tuesday checking and raising, scooping and splitting in Event #32, $530 Stud Hi/Lo. 80 players earned shares of the $255,000 prize pool with...more

by Adam "STUDSTOOD" Roberts This past year, I have been blogging on many different topics and aspects of overall poker play, including bankroll requirements (both per session and for the long term), game selection (based on limit of game, type of game- especially with regards to your own ability), money...more

by Adam "STUDSTOOD" Roberts Another topic I want to cover for tournaments is getting staked or "pieced out." Being that tournaments have such a high short term luck factor, many players prefer not using their own money for buy-ins. This is all well and good, but if you are one...more

Poker has its fans, no doubt. Just look out over the rail today and you'll see a line of people willing to stand on their feet for two hours at a time to watch people 40 feet away play cards . They don't move. They can barely see what happens,...more

by Adam STUDSTOOD Roberts Now that the annual WSOP has begun, I am going to continue on with tournament strategy. Although having a "game plan" is usually harder to do in tournaments than cash games, I think you should have one. Among the items to think about is which events...more

by Adam STUDSTOOD Roberts With the annual World Series of Poker (WSOP) just around the corner, I thought that I would continue discussing various aspects of tournaments. This blog will concentrate more on aspects of "deal making" in tournaments, as opposed to actual hand strategy or deciding which events to...more

by Adam "STUDstood" Roberts I hope all of you had an enjoyable SCOOP tournament, and congratulations to those of you who made a profit in the events. With the recent advent of so many tournament events both live and online, it seems that every day or week there is a...more

These are the full official counts at the start of day two at the EPT Grand Final in Monte Carlo. The latest approximate counts for some notable players, updated throughout the day, will the updated on the chip count page, to which there is a link hidden somewhere on this...more

by Adam "STUDstood" Roberts Much like in cash games, the talent and ability of the players in higher buy-in tournament events increases. Therefore, there will be more better players, hence less "dead money," as they say. Just like in higher limit cash games, there will also be some players that...more

by Adam "STUDstood" Roberts In my last post, I began blogging about which tournament events to enter. More specifically, which ones may have the most value. I want to make clear that I didn't mean to NOT make a regular buy-in to a specific event. What I did state, and...more

by Adam "STUDstood" Roberts Most of the tournaments we see today are the "conventional" type, i.e. single buy-in events, with no rebuys. Although I have had success in this type of structure, I believe that for most people there is much more value in the following types of events: Tournaments...more

by Adam "STUDstood" Roberts Poker tournaments have certainly come a long way since a handful of players showed up in the late '60s to compete in the fledgling WSOP. Play has increased exponentially since I popped onto the scene in the early '90s. Today, not only has the WSOP added...more

by Adam "STUDstood" Roberts These past few months, many of you have suggested different topics for me to blog on. One of the most common is tournament play, and all its aspects. I have decided to write on this important topic for the next few weeks. To segue into that,...more

by Adam "STUDstood" Roberts Danny Robison is now in his early 60s. He is a fixture in the $2000/$4000 limit Stud game at the Hustler Casino in Los Angeles. But in 1989, he had just returned from a self-imposed five-year hiatus from poker. Although I had heard people talk...more

Luca Pagano occupies one of the least favoured seats in the field today, immediately to the right of Portugal's Joao Barbosa. Needless to say Barbosa, who plays with an air of bewilderment, is re-raising his way to some early pots, forcing others out of the action; a plan used...more

by Adam "STUDstood" Roberts In my recent blogs I have been trying to give you some sense of the various ways to help improve your game. Those include figuring out from what sources to learn, i.e. books, videos, television shows, teachers (both knowingly and otherwise), your own live and online...more

by Adam "STUDstood" Roberts I would like to discuss the best ways to hone your game, to become a better poker player. But first, this week I'd like to fill you in a little on my own history, to give the discussion some context. I think my poker career...more

by Adam "STUDstood" Roberts In today's blog, I will cover how to gather as much quality information as possible to enable you to become the best poker player you can be. Note that I specifically said "quality information," as opposed to the quantity of information. As poker has grown,...more

by Adam "STUDstood" Roberts This week I want to continue on the topic of staking, but discuss where it is done as a package deal, which includes personal expenses, as opposed to where it is only in a "game-by-game" arrangement. Although this type of staking deal is usually only...more