Hi, welcome to Tourney.com! This website is for the poker enthusiast. I’m in the process of redesigning the site’s layout in order to find many ways to provide new, fresh poker content to you, the user. This site will be an educational resource with poker articles on how to play better in cash games, tournaments, etc. Also, it will be a bit entertaining as I will be updating my blog several times per week, and you can read along about my experiences at the tables. Lastly, it will serve as an informational resource as I stay on top of the latest in poker news, poker tools and software, poker books, instructional training sites, etc. and share my experiences with you.

I’ve been playing poker since the summer of 2003. I’ve played hundreds of multi-table tournaments (MTT’s) in my career, mostly online, but a few live. I even have a cash in a $1,500 buy-in NLHE World Series of Poker tournament back in 2005, where I placed 40th out of a field of over 2300 players. All in all, my lifetime earnings over the various forms of poker that I’ve played are comfortably in the 6-figures.

However, these days my niche is cash games. Early in my career, I played limit hold’em (LHE) exclusively when I played cash games. From late 2003 until early 2006, I played a little over 300,000 hands of LHE. In early 2006, it seemed the LHE games were drying up a bit and most of the fish were swimming over in the no-limit hold’em (NLHE) ponds. So, I switched over my grinding of cash games then to NLHE, and I haven’t looked back. Since that point, I’ve logged about 700,000 hands of NLHE in cash games.

At the beginning of 2008, I began to develop an interest in pot-limit Omaha (PLO). You can click on the link ‘PLO’ to read more in-depth of exactly what this poker game is, and how to play. It’s very similar to hold’em, except you get 4 hole cards instead of 2. Also, if differs from hold’em in that you must use exactly 2 of the 4 hole cards in playing the hand. In hold’em, you can use both hole cards in making the best 5 card poker hand; but you can also use just one or even none (this is called ‘playing the board’). Anyway, in the last couple years, I’ve probably logged about 60,000 hands of PLO. It’s been a nice way to break up the grind of NLHE cash games as it can be a lot of fun at the same time.

So you can see, I’ve played just over a million hands of poker. I’ve also watched hundreds of instructional poker videos from Deuces Cracked over the last couple years. I’ve spent over $1,000 getting coaching for both NLHE and PLO cash games. All in all, over the last 6 years I’ve spent thousands of hours studying the game of poker, and working on my game away from the tables. I hope to translate a lot of this knowledge over to you here at Tourney.com. I really hope you enjoy this site! Also, if you have any suggestions of anything you’d like to see here, please don’t hesitate to let me know, and I’ll do my best to write an article about it or at least point you in the right direction of the best resource so you can find what you’re looking for. I look forward to seeing you around!