I pulled out hands to date from my short stacking games, filtered the ones where I went to showdown, eliminated the check down hands to get the ones where I raised and got all-in.
Ahead:20; Equity > 50%: 18
Behind: 5; Equity < 50%: 4
Plus one AK vrs 33 and one 99 vrs AJs, basically coinflips, and [...]
Why am I so nitty about my bankroll sometimes? Since I was forced to cash out one site when it got shut down, I’ve cashed out more than I’ve ever deposited, so the money that I do still have on-line at PokerStars and at Full Tilt is all poker earnings/winnings. Recently I’ve taken some stabs [...]
I work. 5 days a week, most weeks of the year. I’m one of those people that have a hard time convincing myself of the value of taking time off. That combined with the facts that money is a little tight plus I’m not a frequent traveler means that I accumulate a lot of [...]
Calling an all-in preflop, or, calling a preflop raise that will put you all-in, requires putting your opponent on a range of hands that he’s likely to be making this move with. ICM helps to determine when this is the correct call, but ICM starts from the odds that your hand will win against the [...]
So what happens when you play a super-turbo and the players are 1) tight or limpy rather than aggressive early, and 2) sloooow making decisions?
Then the blinds go up even faster as you play fewer hands at each blind level. By the third orbit you might be down to half a stack already and yet [...]
If there was no internet poker, I wouldn’t be a poker player. The first time I played was with friends back in post high school days, with beer and cigars, usually dealer’s choice with nickel bets. There definitely was an interest for me then. I could sense that the must be some optimal strategy, (even [...]
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 [...]
