Last weekend I was playing a poker tournament, some 90 or more people. Low buyin, but it was a private tourney so part of the reason to play is to be playing some people that I know.
For the last year my main computer has been a laptop. Pretty basic one that I purchased during the [...]

Would you rather be respected at the poker table, or feared? There are even times that it’s better to be disrespected, the premise of the LAG style, hoping to tilt players or pick up big hands when people get frustrated with your play.
Recently I was playing a tourney with some people, many of whom I [...]

I wrote a post long ago about starting hands to play in No Limit Hold’em,
No limit Hold’Em; another beginners strategy. Part 1: Preflop hand selection. It was as simple as I could make it, and gave basic guidelines for a beginner.
Once you get a feel for playing those hands, there are more hands that are [...]

For a while back in the summer, I was focusing my play at short stack games, buying in for the minimum (20BBs at PokerStars and Full Tilt, the two main places that I play). I tested out my play first 4 tabling $25NL tables and buying in for $5, and then played some $50NL with [...]

The two biggest online poker sites have both introduced new versions of No Limit Hold’em poker games.
Pokerstars added their “double or nothing” sit and goes, while Full Tilt has introduced what they call the 4X Matrix sit and goes.
Different structures, but what I think they both have in common is a wider disbursement of winnings [...]

How often do we create “facts”, or interpretations, or likelihoods that reinforce what we want to choose, and then use that to justify our choice of action? We have an action we want to take, and some of the elements for choosing that action are present, but we convince ourselves to go ahead with our [...]

In my last few years of high school I became very passionate about something. It became my major at college/university and my whole life was geared toward it for a number of years, until finally I became saturated. My previously-thought-to-be-insatiable desire to learn more and immerse myself deeper was filled, like a sponge that finally [...]