Allen Cunningham is just the most level-headed poker mind, I think. Here’s some thoughts from him on coming up in the poker world, and the synthesis of some of his poker theory and poker mind:

I like that he seems down to earth and normal. He seems to approach the game in a very organic way, which is refreshing from someone like him who has achieved such success. A nice flip-flop from the Scotty Nguyen style of being a cocky SOB.

I don’t remember this specific hand from the WSOP ESPN broadcasts, and I’m pretty sure I would have had this one stuck in my mind, or maybe it has been too long. Anyhow, this video is more proof when Allen Cunningham is just the sickest of the sick. He folds aces when he knows he’s beat, and here he makes a ridiculously strong call against Jamie Gold.
You can’t see the hole cards until the end which kind of makes this even better, as you get to try to figure it out as it goes. It also features commentary by …read more

Allen Cunningham has a new article on the Full Tilt Poker website in regards to stealing blinds during the midpoint of tournaments. It’s pretty standard advice, but I like the way Cunningham makes specific references to hands and how he plays them in certain spots. A good overview on position stealing in tournaments for those who haven’t read a lot.
It really can be amazing how many chips you can accumulate without ever picking up a hand, and just using your position and the fact that most of the time your opponents will not have large holdings against them. The last …read more

Here’s a hand between Phil Ivey and Allen Cunningham in a live No limit hold em cash game via Full Tilt Poker.

Love Cunningham’s play on this hand. Not raising the flop with crap on board. Just calling the turn. Laying down to the obvious value bet on the river. So many other players, I think including greats like Negreanu and Hansen, would have lost a hell of a lot more in this spot. Allen truly lost less than most any other player would have in his spot.

Plus he looks like John Malkovich.