I had been away for a few days, so no poker played. It’s interesting to note that I still required a poker “fix”. I didn’t take any poker books to read so the only way I could get a fix was via imagination, and I recall more than one instance of playing poker, either as [...]
I decided to cut the previous entry into two pieces and then continue on. Unfortunately for reading purposes, blog entries show up in descending age so this continuation will show up ahead of the related first entry. ~ One of the best instructional videos I’ve watched was one where 9 players played a private single [...]
The process of improving, at poker, skiing or French, requires learning. Learning is the process of acquiring skills, knowledge, understanding via accumulated experiences and memories. Traditional learning processes such as learning to ski or to speak French involve basic aspects of the new item followed by repetition and perhaps testing. Once one has achieved a [...]
Time for a more indepth search into 1) the reasons why I play poker, as well as 2) trying to find my personal objectives when I do play. I guess the differences between the two would be, “Why do I start up a poker site?” as opposed to “When I’ve started a poker site, what [...]
My bankroll is gradually increasing, but I don’t seem to have the urge to work at it. Instead, I’m playing in situations where I have good chances of winning. 0.05/0.10 at the European site at 6 max tables there always seems to be one or two maniacs where I play tight/passive/aggressive, and 4 out of [...]
A friend of mine reviewed the $75 turbo that I played and some interesting things came out of that. For one thing, he has Sit and Go Wizard, and put a number of hands into the program to see what it had to say. Apparently the 88 hand where I called behind was likely a [...]
I finally got around to using the $75 satellite pass that I won using player points. I asked support and tried to turn it into $75 of smaller tournament buy ins but they said no, I had to use it as an entry into a single tourney. So, I played a turbo SnG, figuring 1) [...]
2 recent situations with AK led me to think some more on this topic. In the previous entry I had no mention of what I planned to do when someone reraises my preflop raise. Hand 1, I raised 4 times the big blind from early/mid position, was called by two players behind. Then the small [...]