Two Plus Two Online Poker Strategy Magazine Notes From the Publisher for July 2009
As I’m writing this, the WSOP is in full swing with lots of tournaments and lots of other games. Unfortunately for me, I have hardly played any poker the past month due to working on our upcoming books.
So far, most of my time has gone into Pot-Limit Omaha: An Understanding of Winning Play by William Jockusch. The manuscript is well on its way to being finished and we are projecting a middle of September release date. more ...
The Early Days of the World Series of Poker
This is my take on how it went in the beginning. Others may have seen it differently, so take what I say for what you have paid for it. Other than myself and a very few other people, not many are still alive that were there in Las Vegas or hung around the town itself when the Series wasn’t happening. I am sure that a bunch of the players from Texas are still putting their boots on daily, but they only came for the Series and stayed for part of it. more ...
Baseball Runlines
Baseball runlines are the equivalent of pointspreads in other sports. Typically, the favorite in the money line lays 1.5 runs and the underdog gets 1.5 runs. A team laying 1.5 in the runline needs to win by two or more runs to win the bet. A team getting 1.5 in the runline wins the bet by winning the game outright or losing by exactly one run. Some sportsbooks will offer alternate runlines where the favorite gets the 1.5 runs and the underdog lays the 1.5 runs. A few sportsbooks offer 2.5 runlines, but they are much less common. In this article, I will use the word “runline” to mean the typical runline that most sportsbooks post, with the favorite in the money line laying 1.5 runs. more ...