I was looking at my HEM stats the other night, and pleased that I had something like 8 up sessions in a row. No big ups, but no down sessions either. Then I went back further searching for my big downswing. I found it, a month and a half ago. My big downswing was a [...]
I’m a volunteer with the local Fringe Festival. The Fringe is an annual festival that began in Edinburgh but now takes place in numerous cities around the world. It is dedicated to offering opportunities for anyone to put together a theater performance and to perform it. Originally the Fringe operated on a first come-first served [...]
There was an interesting article in a recent “The New Yorker” (“Don’t!“) about self control. It stared with a test done years ago with a number of four year olds in nursery school. The children were asked to choose a treat, either marshmallows, cookies, or pretzel sticks. Once they had chosen one, they were told [...]
A player sits down at your table. He shoves all-in every hand, no one calls him down. You have 99. He shoves, you call, he has TT and you lose. Your reaction? A player sits down at your table. He shoves all-in every hand, no one calls him down. You have 99. He shoves, you [...]
Lately the blog has shifted to more specifics of playing poker. Partly this is due to the fact that I’ve been grinding and playing more hands more regularly. So let’s shift it back to non-specifics a bit again. One of the things that happens when you focus on learning and improving something is that you [...]
This is in my daily grind, but I thought that this has some value for me for more analysis. Preflop raiser is 13/10/3.5/27 over 168 hands, so TAG and aggressive postflop. Limp-caller donks the flop, I guess trying to see if anyone is scared of the two Queens. Raiser raises, and I tried to take [...]
Reminder: When an application will only show when “maximized” and not “minimized”, the minimized version is off the screen. To recover it: Right click on in on the toolbar Choose “Move“ Use an arrow key, not the mouse, to move it back on to the screen ~ This happens to me all the time, so [...]
I want to try to work my way through the development of a thinking process for poker. Partly this is for academic purposes; to try to lay out the developmental stages, but it’s also partly because I’ve been through a lot of the stages, but often forget or skip some in as I develop and [...]