For those of you who have never heard of me (and hopefully it’s because you are new to poker), my name is Dave Colclough, often known by the imaginative pseudonym of ‘El Blondie’. I guess, I am now a Professional Poker Player. All I do to pay my bills and put food in my fridge [...]

So you have watched Late Nite Poker, you enjoyed it, but it wasn’t quite clear how the action panned out. So let’s just try and explain the basics simply. We will start with Texas Hold’Em. This is because it is the most common form of poker played throughout today’s world. You get dealt two ‘hole’ [...]

I hope you have all been practicing hard at the Play tables at bet365poker? I’d guess you’ve had fun, but the stimulation isn’t quite there? There are a couple of reasons for this. Firstly, you don’t have any of your hard earned dough on the line. Secondly, your opponents don’t have any of their hard [...]

In the first article I promised to keep you informed of how the 2004 schedule was going for me. So we will give the lessons a break this week, and give you a little more opportunity to break even in the 50c/$1 game. (No, you can’t move up to 20/40 game yet. And stop playing [...]

The boss has spoken. He wants more advice and less drivel in the column (what’s the difference you may well ask). He just doesn’t care about whether my fridge was empty at the end of January. So what if my 5 year old daughter couldn’t go to the cinema to watch Peter Pan? What’s wrong [...]

Well, apparently some of you actually understood last week’s article. Common sense, wasn’t it… Well here’s a few swerve balls… Again, it may be common sense but you can also use your position to bluff. Personally, when playing live, I only bluff if I think I can pick up some sort of tell as well. [...]

So here I am at the 2004 World Series of Poker. Binion’s Horseshoe has been taken over by new owners… at long last. That is not the most obvious change that greeted me though. America has gone Poker mad, mad, mad. An astonishing 343 have just paid an amazing $25,000 to play the main event [...]

Day 1- 22/4/04 So here I am at the 2004 World Series of Poker. Binion’s Horseshoe has been taken over by new owners… at long last. That is not the most obvious change that greeted me though. America has gone Poker mad, mad, mad. An astonishing 343 have just paid an amazing $25,000 to play [...]

Well after six weeks in Las Vegas, I needed 2 weeks off to acclimatise to the real world again. Eventually I dragged myself back onto the European Tour again, and flew down to Barcelona (it is such a hard life). The major competition of the week was the Worlds Heads Up Championship, with a first [...]

I don’t know how many of you stayed up to watch my banana backed, square eyed poker performance on last weeks Sky Sports Poker Million & The Masters. A few friends of mine did, and suggested it wasn’t so easy to follow what was happening. So here’s a few hints and explanations of what was [...]