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 [...]
This is a hand history from someone who has read my blog and was interested in the poker school post. He had already signed up with Full Tilt so he wasn’t eligible to sign up so that I could get credit, but I said that if he wanted to send me a hand history for [...]
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 [...]
I’m not much of a television watcher. I am, however, a big NFL fan; probably half the total hours of TV for me in a year for me is watching football. I also don’t play MTTs very well unless I have something to keep me from getting impatient, such as friends playing the same tournie [...]
One of the reasons for blogging my poker thoughts is to serve as a reminder or reinforcement for me. Here’s a hand to reinforce the concept of reads over wa/wb theory or pot control. I don’t think I’ve mentioned wa/wb yet, and I will do so in some future post, if for no other reason [...]
Often when I start to write something it’s because I had a very brief flash of a thought in a previous poker session or even while driving to or from work. Sometimes I have enough clarity from this inspiration to write a fairly complete and coherent post. And other times the topic may be huge [...]
There used to be a good short stacking strategy on a site called donkeydevastation, but the other day I went to look for it again and the site no longer exists. I think there were a couple of articles on playing both 10BB buyins as well as 20BB buyins.
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I started playing short stack strategy after [...]
