Archive for August, 2007

No limit Hold’Em; another beginners strategy. Part 1: Preflop hand selection

Friday, August 31st, 2007

Let’s see if I can write a beginner strategy. This will help me to solidify my own base-basic game plan. ~ This is written for you if you’re planning to join a home game, a company fundraiser, to play some play money online, or trying the micro tables. If you’re playing a tournament (MTT; multi [...]

Stay out of trouble, & Protect my hand

Thursday, August 30th, 2007

I want to refresh something that I was using a while back. This was the way I originally approached my first stab at $25NL. Buying in short stacked (60%) to protect my bankroll against bad plays on my part. This gave me a little more comfort, particularly as I was under-rolled for the move up. [...]

Poker Academy

Wednesday, August 29th, 2007

After a bad weekend on 3 different sites as an extension of the 3 months of flat bankroll, I’m temporarily only playing freerolls, as well as a Poker Academy. ~ The simulator has been interesting in a number of ways. First, the players bluff, both by taking stabs at pots as well as reraising trying [...]

Farewell to CD

Tuesday, August 28th, 2007

A couple of days ago I requested my first site with a bankroll to empty my account. The funds have yet to show up in my bank, but I hope it will proceed without a hitch. My bankroll started with a freeroll win, 2nd place, $4, Nov 16, 2006. Within 5 days I had depleted [...]

Discipline

Tuesday, August 28th, 2007

This is the word that I’m just now remembering that helped me at one point. This is one of the reasons that I want to maintain something like a blog; so I’ll remember these things. (Actually, now that I think on it I may have written an email to myself about it. That may have [...]

08/24/07

Friday, August 24th, 2007

Okay, first entry as a blog entry. All previous entries were cut and pasted from a email that I sent back and forth to myself. So, question of the day; why do I lose to players that are worse than me? I mean, variance means that yes, the best players will lose to bad players [...]

08/22/07

Wednesday, August 22nd, 2007

I should transfer this into a blog that no-one sees. Rereading this so far, apparently my bankroll has not changed in the last 3 months. :/ Current project is to multitable. I tried 4 X 10NL for a while, but wasn’t improving, and I’m not sure I see where I would improve. Next plan is [...]