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Friday, November 7th, 2008
Anyone who reads this blog will know that I’ve been playing a little bit of HORSE poker lately. I wanted to use this post to talk a little about one of the limit games and specifically about a hand that shows the power of the wheel in split pot poker. In this case, Omaha Hi/Lo…
PLO Pre-Flop Problems
Thursday, October 23rd, 2008
My hand is and I am in the cutoff seat (1 behind the button and therefore 2nd last to act after the flop).
The table is 6 handed. Under the gun folds and the guy in 2nd position raises pot (to $0.35). I call, the button calls, the small blind calls. Now […]
A Good Day
Saturday, October 18th, 2008
Ok. So I said I’d update on how yesterday’s sessions went. Had good fun playing yesterday. No stress, no long hours, no tilt and easy pickings. I started the day with a short session …
Lols at HORSE
Wednesday, October 15th, 2008
Well. The other night I got my first chance in a while to sit down and play some poker. It was getting late and I wasn’t in the mood for actually risking money and ending up in some tilt slide at 4am, so I decided to check out the mixed game Sit n Go’s. I ended up playing some HORSE and had a lot of fun …
Assessing Your Opponents
Wednesday, October 1st, 2008
I’ve noticed recently that I have an awful habit of registering whether my opponents are good or bad without gathering any truly useful information. I watch some guy call when he shouldn’t or bet when he shouldn’t and do so repeatedly and all I register is “idiot”. This isn’t a good idea…
Sets and Sessions
Tuesday, April 8th, 2008
A while back there I put up a post listing the books I was planning to read next. This post is about one suggestion from Elements of Poker that I’ve found particularly useful. That is the notion of sets and sessions […]
Slings and Arrows
Thursday, April 3rd, 2008
At the start of March I freed up some more cash to add to the bankroll as part of a new plan to move up in limits. Sticking to building with the money I have online seems like a false economy since it will keep me playing $25 poker for some considerable time when there is no reason for me not to be rolled to play higher. So, at the start of March, I moved up to playing $50 games as my regular game. My plan being to put in 2 weeks to a month of hands before going on to $100 games (assuming I don’t find some massive skill gap I can’t adapt to).[…]
Finding a Keeper
Thursday, March 13th, 2008
On my way over here this morning I was listening to the radio and some guy had written in with a story. The previous night, on his way home from work, he had stopped at a garage for petrol (gas station for gas, if you’re American). On his way in to the shop he spotted some flowers. They looked well and he thought it would be a nice gesture so he bought them and brought them home to his girlfriend. […]
Rhythm and Stealth
Thursday, March 6th, 2008
Today we are talking rhythm. For me, a poker game has a rhythm. In fact it sort of has multiple rhythms. When the action from other players is fast and furious that provides a kind of pace or rhythm that effects me. It is easy to get keyed up in response to lots of action. When you do, that is the pace of the opponent’s game effecting your mental state (probably negatively). […]
Swings and Roundabouts
Monday, March 3rd, 2008
After the spewfest that was my play in the middle section of the month, I had recovered to somewhere approaching reasonable by the 28th. If 2008 had not been a leap year, I would have ended February having played about 4,300 hands. But 2008 is a leap year and February 29th was not good to me […]
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