Archive for July, 2008

Waiting for the NFL preseason

Thursday, July 31st, 2008

I don’t know, but to me it seems to be taking a long time for the NFL football preseason to start. Every year the season itself seems to start later. This year I’m still waiting for the preseason games to start. Last year’s Super Bowl was a great story, and a great game. The powerful [...]

Short stack hand review/analysis/stats

Tuesday, July 29th, 2008

I pulled out hands to date from my short stacking games, filtered the ones where I went to showdown, eliminated the check down hands to get the ones where I raised and got all-in. Ahead:20; Equity > 50%: 18 Behind: 5; Equity < 50%: 4 Plus one AK vrs 33 and one 99 vrs AJs, [...]

Personal experience with variance

Sunday, July 27th, 2008

I already did two blog entries on variance without getting to cover what I wanted to get to. I did want to lay out some conceptual background and dig up some characteristics and elements, but somehow instead spent my time working with that without really getting to what I wanted to explore. Which is, variance [...]

Beginner’s mind, in poker terms

Friday, July 25th, 2008

It’s been a while since I started out trying to teach myself to play poker. There were a few websites and books that I had read telling me what were good preflop starting hands, how to bet and read flops, ect. But at the beginning it was hard for all this new information to sink [...]

How to deal with poker variance; some general thoughts

Wednesday, July 23rd, 2008

So variance will swing your poker winnings up and down. How much can you control these swings? How much should you try? How do you adjust or deal with these swings? Ideally, you have a winning style and skill level for your level, sufficient bankroll to deal with variance, and the type of personality, the [...]

Effects of variance

Tuesday, July 22nd, 2008

Poker is a game that combines skill with chance. A good player is not always going to beat a table of worse players. In the long run, the very long run, a good player will win out over his poorer table partners, but the elements of chance will make the results fluctuate in the shorter [...]

Super turbos dried up

Monday, July 21st, 2008

My super turbo play and short stack ring tests have been intermingled, but I thought that I should do a separate entry for this to signal an end. I think that the super turbos have only been around for a few months but it’s looking like they are drying up as an easy source of [...]

Updated short stack stats

Monday, July 21st, 2008

Well, this blog is for myself anyways This is another entry that’s not necessarily of interest to anyone else. I figured out how to merge my stats. So my total short stacking stats so far: Hands: 799 bb/100: 39.42 = 19.71 BB/100 VP$IP: 12.1 PFR: 7.3 3bet%: 4.9 WTSD%: 27.7 W$SD: 67.7 Agg: 6.4 Agg%: [...]