Johnny Hale has been playing professional poker for longer than many of us have drawn breath on the planet. During his lifetime there have been up and downs, part of being a professional poker player.

Today OKJ imparts advice on how to cope with those ups and downs, teaching us to keep two different bankrolls and to make sure that we can always pay the bills that life throws at us.

Being a top notch poker player, or even a profitable poker player, means being able to read the people around you.

Today, Charles helps you get a feeling for things you can look for in a place you might not have thought about; away from the poker table.

Nearly everyone who has read anything at all about limit hold'em knows that proper play is 'tight-aggressive' play. The tight part isn't that hard, though it can be frustrating and boring - you just fold a lot. Some people think that only playing a third of their hands is tight, but it's pretty easy to correct them, just by showing what hands they shouldn't be seeing the flop with.

Low-Limit Holdem is very different from other forms. Depending on what type of table you find yourself playing at, playing styles should vary. This article, I will focus on a winning strategy for an extremely loose table. For a table to be loose I think of it as having anywhere from 4-8 players on most flops...

Make sure you check it out inside to see Dal's thoughts on low limit strategy and an amazing story about breaking pocket Aces!

Aces can be some of the toughest cards in poker to play, especially for the less experienced player. I can't count the number of times I've seen a novice player push all-in preflop with pocket aces, only to see the table fold and the pick up $25 in chips; the blinds. Today Stephen comes to us to talk about playing Aces, in particular the difficult ace-rag hand.

Part III of this trilogy is clearly the most difficult for me to write. In Part I and Part II, I shared with you some of the sillier things I’ve done in my life, but they pale in comparison to what I’m about to tell you. This isn’t exactly a rags to riches story; it’s more of a riches to rags story.

Ron Rose is one of poker's most prolific players with a World Series of Poker Bracelet and a World Poker Tour title to his name and is the reigning "Battle of Champions" winner. His book Poker Aces is also on the must read list for every poker player and fan of the game. Today Ron looks to teach us an important lesson about the gathering of information, and the importance of learning something with every bet that you make in the game of No Limit Texas Holdem...

On the recent Card Player Cruise through the Caribbean on the Holland Cruise ship 'Zandam,' I played in a $1,000 buy-in no limit Hold'em event with 42 of my shipmates. Coming off of an all-night session of Chinese poker (deuce to seven in the middle) vs. Andy Bloch, I decided that I had more equity in the 10:00 AM tournament, than I did playing Andy, even though I'd been up all-night.

I never get tired of saying it: If you're the first to enter the pot in a No-Limit Hold 'em game, never call. If you aren't prepared to raise, throw your hand away. You always want to make your opponents' decisions as difficult as possible. In choosing the size of your raise, you want to give the big blind a tough decision between calling or folding if the rest of the table folds around to him.

I know this newsletter is being written for an online poker site, but I hope that most of you still find time to play live poker. As much as I love online poker, I would never completely give up sitting at a table and getting the chance to size up an opponent. This week's lesson will examine why I think it is a mistake to wear headphones or sunglasses during live play.