Sometimes I think that I play too casually. Partly this is due to the amount of online poker that I have played in the last year. Partly this is due to watching my opponents and seeing their bad plays and knowing that they’ve made a bad play and assuming that I am a better player [...]
Most poker sites have .net versions of their site as well as a .com version. My understanding of this is that the .net version is play money only. I’m guessing that they do this for marketing purposes so that they can advertise these play money sites whereas they cannot advertise the real money versions. This [...]
There are a lot of times at micro levels that a play will reek weakness. It’s far too easy to just call and see what comes up next, when what you should do is take advantage of that situation. Someone makes a weak bet at a flop, or limps into an unopened pot from late [...]
This is not a prepared entry. Actually, they never are, but often I have some thoughts before I start typing. In this case I don’t really but I want to start to gather some thoughts about how to play when you are certain the table in general is not very good, and perhaps some examples [...]
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 [...]
An entry for the emotional/life connection with poker. It’s amazing how much a reaction to a poker session can affect me in my regular life. This is not always the case, but sometimes the result is quite strong. ~ Almost finished as much of the deposit bonus that I think I can do before the [...]
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 [...]
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, [...]