Editor’s note: Below, you’ll find an article written by our blogger Paul Gearan, based on an interview he did with PokerfaceAsh, a popular YouTube vlogger and APT partner (I’m her biggest fan). In her most recent video, she flops a set of Jacks on her very first hand! After watching that video, if […]
Last weekend I played in a “Mystery Bounty” event at BestBet cardroom in Jacksonville, Florida. Although I didn’t cash, I thought it would be worth telling the story and talking about the optimal strategy, especially given that there is a new bracelet event at the World Series of Poker this summer (Event #68, “Million Dollar […]
Time and time again the adage that Pot Limit Omaha (PLO) is a game of nutted hands is bandied about. But where does that leave the poor second nuts in PLO? In No Limit Hold’em (NLH), the second nuts is often a very difficult lay down on the river, especially when two exact (and unlikely) […]
With both poker and technology continually evolving, poker software offerings are also continually changing. Ten years ago, there were few software options for the serious poker player. Today, poker software packages do everything from helping with hand selection and analysis, to training with sophisticated bot simulations, to watching pros play their game. Below we share […]
So you want to play online poker in the US? After Black Friday in 2011, accessible online poker in the US temporarily became a thing of the past. The going has been slow, but online poker is coming back, state by state and workaround by workaround. To be clear, we are not commenting on the […]
How does someone go from being broke with no prospects and $1.75 in a PokerStars account to winning the Sunday Million 6 years later? Read on to learn about Mike Wasserman’s journey from a poker hobbyist to a world class professional…
By Mike Wasserman
In 2015, I won the Sunday Million for $145,000. It took years of […]
As poker continues to evolve, so do the poker training sites designed to improve your game and get you a poker education. Poker training sites offer videos, workbooks and quizzes, live poker play, and even software that allows high volume practice. The scope of existing poker training sites reflects the reality that poker players, like […]
After the successful return of the World Series of Poker in October, the WSOP announced that they would be returning to a summer schedule in 2022. This week, the WSOP published their 2022 schedule. As you might imagine, we have been studying it assiduously. Many favorite tournaments are returning, with a couple of new […]
A few months ago, I did a blog post about the similarities between tennis and poker when it comes to the need for mental toughness. Today I want to talk about beating “bad” poker players.
The more I play tennis, the more I realize that tennis and poker are one and the same. It’s just […]
2021 was a big year for poker and a big year for APT as well. Throughout the year, we kept you updated on developments in the poker world, kept you playing poker even when there were few venues open, expanded our extremely popular Madness Cup, and shared ground-breaking poker training packages such as Poker […]