It's quite possible that no matter what level you think you play at, you may enjoy both articles, but I think truly advanced players will find the beginner-to-intermediate articles a bit slow going, because I pause to explain things that advanced players take for granted. Similarly, beginning players may have trouble with the more advanced articles, because I DON'T stop to explain things I assume a more advanced audience will know.

That's why I'll have at least two pieces a month, to make sure that everyone stays happy.

But because everyone's definition of beginning, intermediate, and advanced are different, you may want to explore both articles until you get a good feel for where you belong. I'm as good an example as anyone: seven years ago, I thought I was an advanced player. Today I realize that I was at best an intermediate then, and even though I'm 100 times the player now that I was then, I am just now getting comfortable with the notion of thinking of myself as "advanced." Who knows, in another seven years, I may look back at myself today and decide I was still an intermediate in the year 2000. One thing's for sure: I still have more to learn!

Actually, pretty much all poker players still have more to learn, although great champions with decades of experience tend to be learning individual opponent tendencies rather than fundamental poker wisdom. But one of the things that separates the truly great player from the very good player is that openness to improving his or her game.

That openness is also critical to transforming yourself from a losing player into a winner, or from a small winner to a big winner. With very few exceptions, players who play by rote because they think they "know it all" are, at least eventually, torn to shreds by players who keep improving.

No matter where you place yourself on that player expertise spectrum-and no matter where you actually belong on it-I think you'll find something of value here every couple of weeks. In addition to the two longer pieces, you'll usually find something shorter also. In some weeks, it may be poker humor, in others, a quiz, in others, a tournament report. You should also expect to be able to find most newsletter items on the poker.FairestCasinos.com website archive for quite a while, too.

I love getting reader feedback and questions. If you go to my home page on the poker.FairestCasinos.com website, and use the "Ask Andy" feature, you'll be able to reach me.

Due to the volume of questions I receive, I can't answer them all personally. Very often, people send in questions that are already answered in articles that are in the site archive, and if your question fits that description, I'll suggest you go there for an answer.

Don't be shy about disagreeing with anything you read in Wednesday Nite Poker, either. If I decide you're right, readers will hear about it (with attribution or without, as you prefer); if you're wrong, you'll probably learn something important when you hear why you're wrong.

I'd like to make a couple of final introductory points, and then let you move on to the actual poker reading. When Phil Hellmuth and I provided exclusive coverage of the World Series of Poker for poker.FairestCasinos.com, a lot of people came up to me and told me they really liked "our" website. I was pleased with the compliment, but neither Wednesday Nite Poker nor poker.FairestCasinos.com are owned by Andy Glazer (or Phil Hellmuth). I'm a hired gun (I've wanted to say that ever since I watched the Lone Ranger as a kid), brought in to share my expertise by the actual site owners.

You should not take my writing for poker.FairestCasinos.com as either an explicit or implicit endorsement of any casino that advertises there. I do the poker writing, and I leave the advertising matters to the businesspeople.

I look forward to sharing many Wednesday nights (or other nights and days) with you here on the web….

Andy Glazer, Editor
Wednesday Nite Poker