Archive for April, 2008

Poker on Facebook; poor software

Wednesday, April 30th, 2008

I’m on Facebook, a social networking site. Mostly I play a game called Scrabulous there with friends. It’s nice ’cause you can play one turn and then forget about the game until the next day or so and then go back and take your next turn.
Facebook is heavy with all kinds of apps or little [...]

More playing blind, freeroll thoughts

Monday, April 28th, 2008

Well, I’ve almost depleted my play money bankroll with the “playing blind” exercise, at least the amounts that will let me play the higher buyin Sit and Goes. And I played a points tourney trying to earn tourney dollars so I could use that to play cheap real money tourneys blind, but I didn’t win/cash [...]

How it feels to play poker blind

Friday, April 25th, 2008

The other thing that I haven’t yet commented on is how it feels to try to play blind.
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I finally watched some of the poker movie “Rounders” last week. I didn’t bother to watch it all as the movie itself was not particularly interesting. At one point Matt Damon’s character walks into a game amongst his [...]

More on playing poker blind

Thursday, April 24th, 2008

Last night (mind you I was tired) all I did was play some more attempts at playing blind.
I found a small freeware program that will allow you to have a small picture file always on top, so what I do is load it twice and cover my cards and the area where, because I’m using [...]

Playing poker, blind

Wednesday, April 23rd, 2008

Not “blind” as in from the big blind/small blind, but “blind” as in not seeing my cards.
Recently I watched the $4-180 tournament that annette_15 claims she played and won without seeing her cards. Apparently she says she looked once when someone shoved on her or something. There were some fortuitous shoves with AK and other [...]

What is Tilt?

Saturday, April 19th, 2008

In the last 10 days or so I’ve found myself on tilt (and by that I don’t mean Full Tilt, although that’s were I was playing at the time). Even Sharkscope said so. .
Cash games were fine, but I use a different mentality when I still play the low buy in tubo Sit and [...]

Risk, stress, and Poker. What keeps us from playing aggressively?

Friday, April 18th, 2008

I noticed that in the search terms that led someone to this blog they were looking for information about why we don’t play poker aggressively. There is lots of basic information about why we should play poker aggressively, but it’s true, I don’t recall much about why we sometimes don’t or are hesitant to play [...]