I’ve mentioned my frozen shoulder in this blog a couple of times because it affected my online poker play for a while, plus there seems to be little personal experience with this affliction available on the internet. I’m getting to around 8 months or so since the first symptoms in my right shoulder. About a [...]
Situation: You hold AT off-suit, flop was AQ4 with a flush draw. You bet flop and turn, your opponent called both and the flush filled on the river. Pot is $25, you and your opponent both have $25 remaining. Are you willing to bet/call here on the chance that you can win up to a [...]
Sometimes searching for something on the internet can be difficult. Search “confidence” and you probably need to narrow it to “self-confidence”. Then try adding “faith” and “trust” and you start to get religious sites. Try “building” and you get self-help sites. Try adding “loss” and you get even more help sites for people who have [...]
I have an inability sometimes to see what people might have after calling a raise or 3 bet preflop that I make. I rarely call raises without a big hand killer, like medium/small pairs or suited connectors or occasionally with AA or KK, and I almost never flat when I get a 3-bet to me. [...]
I’ve looked at playing your “A” game, or “lopping off your C game” as Tommy Angelo refers to the other end of the spectrum. But how do you know when you’re not playing your “A” game? Recognition and awareness of being off my “A” game is an issue for me. Let’s see if I can [...]
Another one of the benefits of playing a “new” game as I am with PLO is going through the developmental process over again. Some time ago I did a “Fear of Raising” series where I looked at various reasons why we poker players can be hesitant to raise. Playing PLO I’m re-experiencing fear of raising [...]
If you use a stats display program such as PokerTracker or Hold’em Manager you will see numbers that represent things such as the percentage of hands that a player puts money in to see a flop (by limping, completing from the small blind, raising or by calling a raise) or the percentage of times a [...]
I’ve been playing poker online for over two years now, and still, for reasons not entirely clear to me, I sometimes play really low buy-in tables and tournaments. I guess one advantage coming out of that is that I can post relevant posts about how to play at the cheap tables from current experience as [...]