Category Archives: John the Greek

Additional Hand

At the Foxwoods WPT main event this year I found myself in a hand where pot the ability to calculate pot odds became critical.
It was during the last level of day one. I had managed to grow my chip stack to 50,000 putting me in the top 25% for the day. A comfortable [...]

Setting a Trap and Getting Paid

In this article I wanted to explore two sure fire methods of trapping your opponent into paying you off in No Limit Hold’em. We will first explore setting up and opponent in the beginning of the hand and then we will look at how we can set up an opponent during the middle of [...]

Sucker’s Bet

One of the things that separate poker from other games of chance is our ability to select the odds under which we are willing to wager money. One can encourage action by providing the appropriate odds for a call, as one can also discourage action by “pricing someone out” of a pot. However [...]

Tribute to a Poker Legend

The month of December is always a very difficult time for us in the business world. Everyone is running around trying to close out the fiscal year, finalize last minute details and push to a close any last minute transactions that still linger. This December was no different as I found myself at my desk [...]

Putting on the Breaks

All too often you will be watching a major televised tournament and witness two players getting it All In on a proverbial coin flip. This is something I have always had difficulty understanding. You make a $10,000 investment to enter the tournament. You devote a week of your life to it. [...]