I remember making the comment “at the levels I play” on the forum somewhere, long ago when I was consistently focusing on one level of ring. In doing so, I was acknowledging that this may not be an optimal / expected play, but I had seen players do this at my tables. I’m not sure [...]
I saw a site which sells a preflop poker hand odds calculator. Its a hand-held calculator, and “keeps you from cluttering you screen while you play”, or something like that. Here’s my preflop hand calculator. (Click to view proper size) Pairs are listed on the left, then Ace-high hands, King-high hands, across to Jacks, then [...]
I know I wasn’t going to post non-poker activities in here, but this is poker related, somehow, and I want to figure out why. I’m toying with the idea of taking a distance education course in criminology in January. Somehow I feel that part of my interest lies in my poker interest, although I’m not [...]
Competition is a word that isn’t mentioned in connection with poker as often as I think it might. Terms such as “aggression” and “winning/losing” are commonly used in poker discussions, but as with anything that has winners and losers there is competition and requires competitive spirit. You require competitive spirit to run your best in [...]
Sigh. I should update my ring results at the new site. Had one really good session followed by another up, then a down session, and then last night threw away half the bankroll I have at that site. First two lost hands I got caught by a LAG player. I had something, knew he was [...]
Report: after 40 SnGs: Hands 2,694 VP$IP 19.12 from SB 30.87 Steal attempts 33.45 (184 of 550) Steal success 58.7 Won at SD 56.82 Raised PF 16.11 Limp/call PF 0.00 1st action after PF raise Raise 7.85 Bet 61.78 Call 7.85 Check 14.66 Fold 7.33 PF aggression 4.06 Total aggression 3.24 There still seems to [...]
After 2 1/2 weeks of the bet/fold experiment, it may be time to move it to real money. It’s getting a little silly; I started with ~200,000 in play money (from back in the days before I made my first deposit), played 10,000, then 25,000, now 50,000 buy in SnGs and the play money bankroll [...]
Even though I’m restricting my ring games to $25, I got caught by the same type of bad play by a bad player/bad payoff by me that I already described earlier at the $10 level. This time I raised from late with 88, hoping just to take the blinds. Get called by the dealer and [...]