Every post is not going to be brilliantly educational or philosophical, I guess. I do wish Wordpress had a better method for indexing and summarizing posts. It would be nice if people, including myself, could click on an index, see everything listed, sort it by category, and see the first line or two. I can [...]
Originally I wrote this back when I was in the middle of my “Odds and Outs” series, and delayed posting it so as not to interfere with the series. And then I kinda forgot about it.
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As one progresses thru life one often reflects on things, once in a while an “Aha” happens. Aha, why wasn’t [...]
Some of these posts are very much educationally oriented and only help me in the sense that I have to work my way thru and ensure clarity in my own thinking in order to try to explain them clearly. Other posts have instructional value on a specific topic or situation, but come out of my [...]
I’m spewing chips at full ring again.
Last night I ran into unexpected aggression on 5 occassions. One time I hit a boat on the turn, reraised the river and got shoved into from a shortish stack, lost with my boat to his bigger boat that he had flopped. Another time I raised QQ from the [...]
Meh, sometimes I don’t take my own advice.
I’m on a new site, trying to build another bankroll from freerolls again. I’ve played a few but they don’t run them too often. Best chance so far, two weeks ago I was in mid-pack with 75 or so left, top 50 get some cash. But, I had [...]
I’m finally just about ready to wrap this up. As usual, it was more work than I expected and took more words and more posts than I had anticipated.
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Bet sizing
We’ve looked at when to call bets relative to your draws, and I mentioned briefly how terrible small bets are since they give anyone with draws [...]
Rather than considering odds in terms of 3 to 1, you can look at them in terms of percentages.
First, determine your outs as we did previously. 9 outs to a flush on the turn, with 47 cards possible. Simply get the percentage of 9 to 47 which equals 19%. So, you have a 19% chance [...]
