One of the reasons for blogging my poker thoughts is to serve as a reminder or reinforcement for me. Here’s a hand to reinforce the concept of reads over wa/wb theory or pot control. I don’t think I’ve mentioned wa/wb yet, and I will do so in some future post, if for no other reason [...]
Modified to correct the numbering of the levels. I’ve been watching some friends’ videos of them playing 100NL and 200NL. They’re serious players, with more focus and time than I have for poker, though only one is doing it for a living right now. The others have jobs or are students. One of the things [...]
This is not a poker-specific post, but I did write about this earlier because I suspect my problem with my frozen shoulder has something to do with the amount of time that I spend at the computer, both at work and then holding my arm in one position while multi-tabling No Limit Hold’em poker games [...]
I’m going to do a series of looks at other gambling situations. I’ll probably do this over a period of time, so they won’t be a series of posts in a row like I did with the calculating odds series or some others. In those earlier series I already knew what I wanted to say [...]
To do anything well, you need a degree of comfort or confidence. Whether it’s skiing, investing in stocks, or walking, we need to be comfortable with our environment, comfortable with our ability to execute, and comfortable with our ability to adjust to a certain range of unexpected elements like a tree, interest rate drop, or [...]
I need to get back and do some specific hand review. The problem is that 1) I’m not getting in as many hours of poker as I’d like, and 2) I’m playing all kinds of different games/levels. The problem about not doing some regular specific hand review is that memory becomes clouded and you may [...]
Pot Limit Omaha (Hi) is not Hold’em with two hands. In other words, AK66 of four different suits is not a hand. T987 with two of two suits is. Besides the basic rule difference that you must use two of your hole cards to make a hand, not just one or none as in Hold’em, [...]
I haven’t played anything but the cheapest SnGs (other than super turbos) in a long time. Mostly I don’t have patience as even a 9 player usually takes about an hour. And I figure that if I’m not going to pay attention, I should only play the cheapest tourny. So, other than special tournaments that [...]