Articles by Luke Phillips

There’s a lot to be said about hand selection in poker games. Usually, different hands are revered for their high value and organizational relevance. Still, that doesn’t keep people from playing some real crap for stupid reasons. These are the top 10 reasons not to play a hand of poker Just...

Paris Hilton sucks... at poker I know, I know. Talking about silly slutty girls whose claim to fame is being a vapid heiress to a family fortune and a drunk driver should be saved for a site like gawker or TMZ. My justification is this: if we’re willing to post nudes of some kind of asexual extraterrestrial...

It’s getting dangerously close to the time of year where thousands of poker players will risk sunburn in the Nevada heat on their perfectly pale, super irradiated, clammy indoor skin to face the ultimate in competition at the poker pilgrimage that is the WSOP. The world famous WSOP logo. This...

This great pair would be hard to tame There’s no such thing as a perfect sex partner. Everyone I’ve ever slept with has their own preferences, which is really just a hurdle to jump. Preferences will lead to what they like, which leads to what they’ll do, which leads to how they do...

Running Bad Someone asked me once what I do to mentally get over dry spells. When I asked what he meant, he clarified by telling me about how he hasn’t gotten laid in around four months. Once I stopped laughing, I explained how that hasn’t happened to me since I first became interested...

If you’ve been following this series then you know the tells for when someone is pretending to be strong when they’re actually pretty weak, what a certain betting motions mean, and that the image of Mike Caro and a blowjob is a running gag. And if you didn’t read the two previous articles...

Only in moments of weakness or overpowering horniness have I considered picking up a hooker. When it does happen, it’s usually after a late night series of bad beats—or else a series of tequila shots. The standards of beauty for the western civilization have made it hard on a guy who is having...

Seven percent of what you’re telling people is in the speech that you use. Seven. The other types of messages that people are listening to come through your vocal tone (38%) and your body language (55%), so it’s not what you say, it’s how you say it. That’s why it’s important...

For centuries, cultures and religions that celebrated and worshipped human sexuality have existed in various forms. The most enlightened, ecstatic, and spiritual have discovered for themselves a variety of maneuvers, poses, and rituals. They also discovered anal. I bet you're glad we chose the photo...

Bertrand Grospellier, while waiting for the EPT Grand Final event in Monte Carlo to start, registered for 62 turbo-style SNGs, each for $6.50. As they came up, he spread the games out among four screens, and played 30 tables frantically at the peak of the excitement. Bertrand Grospellier sets a new...