Poker Strategy

New as of May 8, 2008: I now offer private poker stratergy lessons in the Atlantic City region. Emphasis is placed on the 10-20 and 20-40 limit games that are popular in AC as well as 1-2 and 2-5 NL games. The following subjects are covered in the course:

Starting hand selection
Playing position properly
Slow playing vs. fast playing
Stealing the blinds
Playing short-handed
Playing small pocket pairs
Controlling emotion (aka not going on tilt)
Adjusting your play to your opponent
What games are currently soft in AC and what games are not
And much more...

As a special introcductory rate, one-on-one lessons are ONLY $30/hour. I will provide further discount to 2 or more students.

My credentials: I have logged thousands of hours playing Seven Card Stud and Limit Holdem in Atlantic City casinos since 2001. In addition I am well versed in most major poker books. I am teaching on the basis of my extensive experience playing in these low-medium limit games in Atlantic City.

Also if you are interested in learning Pai Gow Tiles --or any other table games for that matter-- I can give you private instruction on the general rules of the game as well as optimal playing strategy (to minmize the house edge).

Use the Contact link on the Nevigation bar to the left to schedule a private instruction class.

The original and primary goal of this website was to provide poker statistics and strategy to players. At the time of this website's conception Seven Card Stud (SCS) was still popular in Atlantic City, NJ and so I provided extensive coverage of it. By now, however, Seven Card Stud has vritually completely died out. Accordingly, no new coverage of SCS will be provided. Additionally, some "House Games" (games that are banked by and played against the casino) will be covered. Specifically, I am now working on a Pai Gow Tiles (PGT) section. Some of it is already available and stay tuned for more in the the near future!

About the Author Jacob "JJ" Gluck

I have been playing poker since 2002. I started out playing low limit Seven Card Stud on paradisepoker.com (the dominant online poker room at the time) and in the Tropicana, Atlantic City, NJ. I lived in Brooklyn, NY and commuted to the AC poker rooms for the weekends. II eventually moved up to 10-20 SCS and then briefly to 15-30-45 Stud High-Low in the Trop. I soon discovered that Stud wasn't the game of choice and that there is more money to be made in Holdem. After the Borgata opened in 2003 I gradually phased out the Stud games and the "pink" Holdem game of the Trop in favor of the 10-20 Holdem game in the Borgata.

One weekend in 2004 I scored unusually big in the 10-20 Holdem game making over $2,000 which prompted me to move up to 20-40. At about the same time, the 10-20 --and later 15-30-- Omaha High-Low (OHL) game in Play Station started to become popular and I would play there at least once a week (Play Station, the poker club in Manhattan, NYC closed down about in May 2005). In 2005 I moved south in order to be closer to the AC poker rooms and I played 20-40 Holdem habitually in Borgata and sometimes the Taj Mahal.

In 2006 I decided to take a job within the casino industry in order to satisfy my quest for poker action without having to riak any money out of pocket. I was hired by the Atlantic City Hilton as a poker dealer in Aug 2006 and am still hapiily employed there.

Also in 2006 I had a run-in with Borgata after they set the House hand wrong in Asia Poker. After I complained to the Casino Control Commission about it they revoked their offer of employment to me unfairly. To add insult to injury they sent an email to Hilton management in Nov 2007 apparently attempting to hurt me at my current job. This prompted me to cease all action at Borgata and to officially advise against playing at Borgata due to their conceited, patronizing attitude towards most players who are not high-rollers. Read the Borgata Incident here.

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Pokerstrategy.us news

May 15 2003 - Brick and Mortar Casino list created
June 5 2003 - Contact links added to Navigation Bar
June 16 2003 - pokerstrategy.org Home Page created
February 9, 2004 - Hand of the week Introduced
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Jul 2 2005 - Live chat added, mailing list created, poker equipment page created, poker software page updated
Dec 10 2005 - The domain name pokerstrategy.org is hijacked and stolen through a scam, along with the entire website. We are forced to switch to PokerStrategy.us and the new authoritative and copyrighted content is located here.
January 3, 2008 - After extensive work on the PGT project I am now posting some of the tables and statistics of Pai Gow Tiles.

Hand of the week!

This page contains various reports on exceptional hands that I played over the weekend in one of the Atlantic City casino's (Trop, Borgata or Taj). I will report on hands in which I pulled a long shot as well as hands in which I was "bad-beaten".

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