Steve Rosenbloom
Steve Rosenbloom, a columnist for the Chicago Tribune, has made a career out of the game of poker and officially declares this pastime a sport. His weekly column "Poker" delivers both insight and strategy on the game he expects to be bigger than golf. Poker is syndicated by Tribune Media Services.
Rosenbloom uses information gathered at World Poker Tour events and the World Series of Poker in his "how to" column that provides insider knowledge from professional poker players in the league.
Rosenbloom has been a sportswriter for more than 25 years and an avid poker player for even longer. He is a former executive editor of Sport Magazine and has written for the Chicago Sun-Times and the Los Angeles Daily News. Since 1996, he has been with the Chicago Tribune, writing such sports columns as "Hit & Run" and "Out Loud."
Rosenbloom has a degree in broadcast journalism from the University of Southern California. He lives in Chicago.
Steve Rosenbloom Samples
Sowers Pads His Stack With Passive Play
Getting value for your hand is about determining the best way to induce a mistake from your opponent. Against a calling station, you'd likely bet with the expectation that he'd call with a worse hand.
Pot Odds Give Esfandiari a Green Light
The concept of pot odds is perhaps the toughest math in poker, but it comes down to the amount you are asked to call compared with the size of the current pot versus the chances you'll hit your card.
Baldwin's Bluff Gets Called
Sometimes you have all the elements you need to pull off a bluff, but then your opponent spoils it by making a call.
Baxter's Bad Bet
Billy Baxter is a legendary poker player and sports gambler to whom all poker pros owe a debt, and here's why: The amiable Georgia native beat the Internal Revenue Service in a landmark case that reclassified professional poker players' winnings a...
One of the classic trouble hands in tournament play is K-J offsuit, especially when stacks are deep.
"It looks really pretty because it's two paint cards," said Greg Raymer, main event champion of the 2004 World Series of Poker, "but you end up getting crushed by ace-king or king-queen every time the pot's big, and if you do have the best hand, u...
Hard poker truth: It's a game of mistakes. So, obviously, let other players make them.
In today's hyper-aggressive poker, it is sometimes easiest to take advantage of others' mistakes by playing straightforwardly, as veteran pro Kenna James did in this hand from the World Poker Tour's $15,000-buy-in Doyle Brunson Five Diamond World ...
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