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From the Editor - May 2009
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You picked a good issue to latch onto here, as – in my humble opinion – this one has it all. Of course, if it didn’t have it all, my boss would be asking me “why not?” – but I digress. Besides our usual fun features, strategy articles, pro profiles, schedules, results, news, etc., you have between these pages this month a microcosm of the poker world. Read carefully and you just might find your own very profitable place in it.

And if you play poker for fun as much as profit, I would like to offer you the poker platitude that states that if you are winning money, you will most certainly be having fun. And I would argue that if it is fun you seek around the baize, sit down immediately in a pub poker game. As Catman writes in his own inimitable style beginning on page 30, these low-stakes games are a good time, win or lose, and that’s not Arthur talking – though he does show his face quite often at these events, where low-stakes players can learn and experience the joy of the game without being subjected to Phil Hellmuth clones.

Someone who is enjoying the game – and making a tidy sum – is Kevin O’Leary, a former London antiques dealer who is now tearing up deep-stack events in Vegas. His story starts on page 24 and if you want some solid deep-stack tournament tips, that’s the place to go.

If you don’t yet have O’Leary’s bankroll (and who does?), you will need to watch your expenses carefully and choose your events with care. Barry Carter (page 48) makes the case that planning intelligently is as important as anything during these troubled times if you want to stay in action, and he has some advice on how to do it.

And if you’re playing cash games, game selection is, of course, key. In a tourney, all you can choose is an event, but in cash games, no one has you chained to a particular table, or a specific seat. Seek out weaker players and don’t be afraid to move. It’s a fact you have to face: Some games just will never be profitable. That’s part of the advice you’ll find starting on page 36, where business whiz Nick Padlo uses the theory of ‘efficient markets’ to examine whether you can actually make a living these days playing low-blind no-limit hold’em. He discusses the situation in Vegas, but his fascinating conclusions will translate to your own game.

If online poker is your cup of tea, we have a feature on the godfather himself, Cliff ‘JohnnyBax’ Josephy (page 58), an analysis of whether being an online sit-n-go pro is realistic (page 82), a peek at the coaching SunPoker is giving its team (page 44) and pros’ opinions on the problems of multi-accounting – cheating – in online poker (page 74).

Like I said. We have it all. And now you do too. Right, boss?

John ‘Johnny Quads’ Wenzel
Editor-in-Chief
 

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