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"I've got an edge over anyone heads-up," announced Luke Schwartz. "I'm the best heads-up No-Limit Hold'em player in the world."

Cool. It's nice to be the best, since only one person can be the best. So much for Phil Ivey, Patrik Antonius and Daniel Negreanu, who came in for some serious trashing.

So far Luke hasn't maligned Doyle, Scotty, Chris, Jennifer or Howard...

By Steve Zolotow If you want to become a complete poker player, you need to learn how to play all the variations of the game.

You should do this because it's no good being the world's best Hold 'em player when the biggest sucker in town only wants to play Seven-Card Stud. Ideally, you want to be able to play whatever game looks to be the most profitable on any given...

Jean-Robert Bellande is a gambler, whether it be poker, pit games, prop bets or television game shows. He went bust a few weeks ago and now you can follow his bankroll rebuilding on Twitter.

Twitter's explosion in the poker world isn't exactly noteworthy, given that every subculture in the world seems to be jumping on the bandwagon.

Twitter's real strength though, its...

After reading Marcus Bateman's excellent piece about when you should be re-stealing, I thought I'd look at the situations where you should be looking to change your own behavior depending on the stack sizes around you.

Some tournament players are just not capable of thinking about making re-steals with marginal hands. These players if they do make these sorts of shoves on you will...

There has been quite a flurry of reporting in the poker community and elsewhere (the Wall Street Journal had coverage) of the findings of a study by Cigital, a consulting firm in Washington, DC.

The report presents what some are calling "definitive" data that "proves" that poker is a game of skill.

Now, poker is a game of skill. Luck plays a role, of course, in the...

Well, after a couple of months break from live tournaments I'm back on the road and will be hitting events in San Remo, Monte Carlo, Venice and finally Moscow. I'll be away for a month and the packing just sucked!

My vacation in Thailand was cool (not literally) but it rained way too much. Everyone enjoyed themselves but I was glad to get back to my nice bed ... it's like sleeping...