I will be hosting a No Limit Texas Hold’em tournament tonight for about 16 co-workers.  For most of them, the only experience they have with this format or even this game is what they’ve seen on ESPN.  I wonder how it will go.
I’m looking forward to it.  It’s been a long time since I’ve had to deal […]

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Linda Johnson wrote in a recent CardPlayer magazine article (and since I’m sitting in a hotel room in Williamsburg, VA, I don’t have the article with me) that she has three goals when she sits at a table.  They are: To win money, have fun, and ensure other people at the table have fun.  Those […]

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The Grand Slam Poker Source is proud to announce the grand opening of The Grand Slam Poker Source Forum.  To better serve my readers, I wanted to provide them with a place to exchange their own thoughts, ideas, and opinion.  I hope The Grand Slam Poker Source Forum can provide that for everybody, including me.
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How many times have you found yourself in this position?  You’re short-stacked with 15 - 20 big blinds, out of position in the small or big blind, and facing a raise from early position.  The raise generated one or more callers and you have a marginal hand like 98s.  A pretty common predicament, isn’t it?  Well, what do […]

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The Grand Slam Poker Source is proud to offer the trial version of the CCT Equity Estimator - Version 1.1 at no cost.
The CCT Equity Estimator uses the Independent Chip Model (ICM) to help players identify a reasonable split of the payout money if they wish to chop at the end of a tournament.  The […]

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As with the first poker quiz, Poker Quiz: Pick Your Poison (published on February 1, 2008), the answers I received to questions in Poker Quiz II: Final Table Deals (published February 13, 2008) were very well-reasoned, well articulated, and all over the place.  For those of you who do not remember, the quiz gave three final table scenarios and asked readers to […]

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The National Broadcasting Company (NBC) just released it’s list of 64 competitors for the 2008 version of the National Heads-Up Poker Championship.  One name was conspicuously absent from the original list of 64 players - 2003 World Series of Poker (WSOP) Main Event Champion, Chris Moneymaker; however, Card Player Magazine reported a recent change to the […]

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Welcome to the new and improved Grand Slam Poker Source.  We’re still working on some of the updates and themes for the new site, but we wanted to transition to it as soon as possible.  The new site will give us more flexibility to provide information, commentary, opinions, and anything else poker related.  So, please […]

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I think I may have done the impossible on Saturday.  I played in three tournaments Saturday, was knocked out of the lowest dollar tournament very early, cashed in the two higher dollar tournaments, never used a re-buy, only used one add-on, and finished exactly even for the day.
I suppose an explanation is in order.  For […]

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If you have a poker-related question you would like answered, please visit the Ask TGSPS!!! page by selecting the tab above and following the easy instructions.  I will answer your questions as quickly as possible, and more importantly, give you the most honest and best answer I can.  Please give me as much detail as […]

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