Before I moved this was one of the most popular entries. It’s a chart of how all No Limit Hold’em pocket cards hold up against against random hands. I think the chart was created simply by punching in hands into PokerStove and recording the results of the calculation. ~ I saw a site which sells [...]
I wrote a post long ago about starting hands to play in No Limit Hold’em, No limit Hold’Em; another beginners strategy. Part 1: Preflop hand selection. It was as simple as I could make it, and gave basic guidelines for a beginner. Once you get a feel for playing those hands, there are more hands [...]
I think over time I’ve written some pretty good and pretty useful posts that, in comparison to what I see are popular posts, are not being read by anyone. I have to come up with way of making some of these more visible so that more people get use out of them, but sometimes the [...]
For a while back in the summer, I was focusing my play at short stack games, buying in for the minimum (20BBs at PokerStars and Full Tilt, the two main places that I play). I tested out my play first 4 tabling $25NL tables and buying in for $5, and then played some $50NL with [...]
The two biggest online poker sites have both introduced new versions of No Limit Hold’em poker games. Pokerstars added their “double or nothing” sit and goes, while Full Tilt has introduced what they call the 4X Matrix sit and goes. Different structures, but what I think they both have in common is a wider disbursement [...]
How often do we create “facts”, or interpretations, or likelihoods that reinforce what we want to choose, and then use that to justify our choice of action? We have an action we want to take, and some of the elements for choosing that action are present, but we convince ourselves to go ahead with our [...]
This is a hand history from someone who has read my blog and was interested in the poker school post. He had already signed up with Full Tilt so he wasn’t eligible to sign up so that I could get credit, but I said that if he wanted to send me a hand history for [...]
In my last few years of high school I became very passionate about something. It became my major at college/university and my whole life was geared toward it for a number of years, until finally I became saturated. My previously-thought-to-be-insatiable desire to learn more and immerse myself deeper was filled, like a sponge that finally [...]