This Issue Can Make You Money

Welcome to our latest issue. This one is a keeper. It’s jam-packed with stories you’ll want to spend some time with – and your game will thank you for it. 

Besides the latest tournament reports from the EPT German Open, the PokerStars Caribbean Adventure, GUKPT Brighton, WPT World Poker Open and the WPT Borgata, don’t miss the numerous articles from experts and pros that can take your game to the next level. Remember, even if you gain one solid tip – one profit-making idea you had never thought of before – then that article was worth reading.  

In fact, if you only gain one glimmer of insight from the entire issue – and believe me, there are a lot of glimmers here – then the time was very well spent, because poker skills are built on a foundation of just such insights. And sometimes it only takes a few changes – a few fresh ideas that while simple, still could have eluded you for years – to take your game from a money- losing pastime to a very profitable one. 

Check out the article on 1-2 no-limit cash games for tips on how to avoid traps (page 62), and on page 68 sit-n-go expert Collin Moshman tells you how to use special software to rev up your single-table tournament game. The Online Fox reveals the importance of thinking ahead during a hand, and the authors of the groundbreaking book Kill Phil unveil new strategies to Kill Everyone. Antonio ‘The Magician’ Esfandiari talks about a hand he played against Danny Negreanu – a hand he played right, but still lost. There is definitely a lesson there! 

When you read our profiles of two of today’s best players, Joe Beevers and Miami John Cernuto, you will notice that there is one important thing they have that you don’t, besides their world-class skills: They are sponsored. Same goes for one of the hottest players in the world right now: GUKPT Brighton winner Julian Thew. 

Sponsorship is the holy grail for today’s tournament players, and while the wearing of logos like some race-car driver seems anything but cool to old-school backroom players such as myself, in today’s high-priced tournament scene – where a year’s worth of buy-ins and expenses can run hundreds of thousands of pounds – sponsorship can be the difference between being a high roller and being stone-cold broke. Sponsorship allows you to play with other people’s money and that, to me, has always been Priority 1 in poker. Fortunately, today you don’t have to be a big-name pro to be sponsored. Read our in-depth piece on sponsorship on page 28 and get the details.

John “Johnny Quads” Wenzel

Editor-in-Chief