I participated in team poker event recently. People who were interested signed up, participants voted for team captains, team captains drafted teams. The events were a variety; mostly no limit hold’em but some others like limit, Omaha, HORSE, ect. Some were open to all participants and some open to just a couple from each team. [...]
Last night I felt I was playing without my aggressive edge. This came after some intimidating play at a private freeroll against other members of the forum, followed by a foray into a $3 rebuy where a couple people had offered extra prizes for members of the forum for various targets. I ended up rebuying [...]
Playing a $2 SnG last night. Had poor hands for a long time until the table was only 6 handed. Then the next 5 hands I raised 4 and took the blinds in all but one situation with above average pockets.
But later when there were 3 left, I was raising fairly often. I think I [...]
Zen and the Art of Poker is a book that gets referred to often by those that have read it. As far as I can tell, it’s not written by a dedicated Zen disciple but by a dedicated poker player who found some connections between Zen perspectives and good poker attitudes and approaches.
One of the [...]
Having an idea what you might want to do on the flop and later after raising preflop is a help. But even so, there are psychological elements at play.
On a social networking site I started playing the poker they have there. I expected inexperienced players who are just playing for a bit of entertainment, which [...]
So, you’ve raised, but got callers. If you hit the flop, then value bet/price out any draws.
Slow play only rare monsters (set of QQQ)
Watch out if you hit 2 pair with connectors, because that means someone else likely has at least a draw if not a made straight (KQ on KQT flop)
Bet enough to give [...]
Apparently I go through phases of comfort with raising preflop. Sometimes it’s fun, other times my heart races and I’m afraid to watch what happens. When I’m just watching someone else playing it’s much easier to make the calls. So, what I want to do is step through some of the scenarios.
In some ways this [...]
