Mike Caro Poker Player Bio
Mike Caro (born May 16, 1944 in Joplin, MO) is a poker professional player whom many consider a leading authority on poker strategy, psychology and statistics. As the founder of Mike Caro University of Poker, Gambling and Life Strategy, author of seven books (and co-author of several others), Caro has taught for decades that in order to overcome any odds against you, your decisions must really matter. Therefore, games like craps, roulette and keno – where there’s no logical reason to favor one decision over another – cannot be beaten. Poker, sports handicapping, and blackjack can be.
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We include Mike Caro’s bio on our website, related to online poker site Doyles Room, because Mike Caro has been influential both in the creation of online poker in general, as well as in the launch and success of doylesroom.com. Back in the 1990’s, Mike Caro was one of the leading advocates of online poker. In fact, most of Mike Caro’s peers heavily criticized him saying poker was a game of face to face reads and human interaction and would not work online. Caro insisted it would and had a hand in creating the Internet’s first online poker site, Planet Poker, which launched in 1998. Caro ended his association with Planet Poker in 2004 to help his good friend Doyle Brunson promote DoylesRoom.com.
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Books by Mike Caro
Mike Caro has authored many books. The most popular of these is Mike Caro’s Book of Tells where he covers live tells which players give off at the poker table. This book features photos of poker players in action and Caro’s own accompanying explanations about when players are bluffing, when they’re not, and why. This same topic is also available in an accompanying DVD (formerly VHS).
Other books by Mike Caro authored or Co-Authored include:
* The Body Language of Poker
* Bobby Baldwin’s Winning Poker Secrets
* Caro on Gambling – a collection of his columns published in Gambling Times magazine
* Caro’s Fundamental Secrets of Winning Poker
* Gambling Times Official Rules of Poker
* Gambling Times Quiz Book
* Master Hold’em and Omaha Poker
* New Poker Games – Descriptions and rules of esoteric or newly invented poker variants
* Odds Quick and Simple
* Professional Hold’em Play by Play
* Poker at the Millennium by Mike Caro & Mike Cappelletti
* Poker for Women: A Course in Destroying Male Opponents at Poker and Beyond
Mike Caro also authored the 5 Card Draw section and contributed 50 statistical tables to the original Doyle Brunson Super Systems (1978), and he was one of many authors of the revised version Super System 2 (2004). He has contributed many articles to poker magazines over the years, and a lot of his work can be found online at poker1.com.
Mike Caro Early Career
Mike Caro was the chief strategist for the Bicycle Casino when it opened in 1984 and in 1986 became the general manager of Huntington Park Casino. In 1992, he organized the first “World Poker Finals” at Foxwoods Resort Casino which was the poker circuit’s first corporate sponsored tournament.
During the 1990’s, Mike Caro spent time working on poker software, consulting for the developers of poker bots, and eventually he helped develop the Poker Probe, the first serious commercial PC program for analyzing poker situations.
During the mid 1990’s, he began work in the online gambling industry and also served as the leading spokesman for the Internet’s first online poker site: PlanetPoker.
Mike Caro Introduces 4 Color Decks
Mike Caro was the inventor of the four color deck, now available as an option at most online poker sites. He first introduced this deck which used black spade pips, red heart pips, green clubs, and blue diamond pips at the 1992 Foxwoods World Poker Finals. Many players complained about this deck, and it never caught on in live play the way it did online.
Mike Caro Wiki
To learn more about Mike Caro, we suggest visiting his website at poker1.com or visiting Wikipedia entry: Mike Caro.
