http://www.anon-poker-blog.com Poker basics, theory, strategy, thinking, learning, analysis, and lots of general musing. Tue, 18 Nov 2008 20:58:50 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en 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 ... http://www.anon-poker-blog.com/2008/11/challenges-of-internet-poker/ 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 ... http://www.anon-poker-blog.com/2008/11/respected-or-feared/ nanowrimo08; that's the tag for posts related to Nanowrimo for this year. I'm participating this year. For those of you that aren't familiar with it, Nanowrimo is National Novel Writing Month, which takes place each November. People who are participating are challenged to write 50,000 words of a novel, or, 1,700 ... http://www.anon-poker-blog.com/2008/11/nanowrimo08/ Years ago I was considering doing an MBA. Along with grades from undergraduate studies, recommendations and relevant work experience, the other thing that MBA programs consider for admission is the score on the Graduate Management Admissions Test, or GMAT. This is the equivalent of the MCAT for med school or LSAT ... http://www.anon-poker-blog.com/2008/11/preparing-to-take-the-gmat/ Before I moved this was one of the most popular entries. It's a chart of how all No Limit Hold'em pocket cards hold up against against random hands. I think the chart was created simply by punching in hands into PokerStove and recording the results of the calculation. ~ I saw a ... http://www.anon-poker-blog.com/2008/10/unarchived-odds-of-winning-against-1-2-3-or-4-random-hands/ 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 ... http://www.anon-poker-blog.com/2008/10/no-limit-holdem-starting-hands-the-next-generation/ I think over time I've written some pretty good and pretty useful posts that, in comparison to what I see are popular posts, are not being read by anyone. I have to come up with way of making some of these more visible so that more people get use out ... http://www.anon-poker-blog.com/2008/10/road-rage-and-poker-aggression/