I drive to work each day on a street with two lanes for traffic each direction. It goes through mostly residential areas so the right hand lanes in both directions are available for street parking in the evenings or weekends. You know the type. During rush hour there are long stretches where there are often [...]

I woke up this morning two hours too early. This after having gone to bed about an hour late.
I was having a dream where my mother was driving, driving a few of us, and at night. This would be pretty unusual because for the past few years my mother has avoided driving, and especially at [...]

Okay, only the third headline has something to do with poker.
Alterpay is a system for online payment, like Paypal, and apparently they had been allowing transactions of companies selling Facebook poker chips. Apparently they’ve reached an agreement with Facebook to no longer process payments of this nature.
I wasn’t aware this was big business. I’ve seen [...]

Sometimes we forget that not everyone has similar degrees of experience or of interest or money for computer software as we do. I was reminded of this recently when trying to help someone do a bit of a review of their game. The hand sample was not big, just a few thousand hands. It’s probably [...]

I was fooling around in Excel and came up with this.

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The upper area is the hero, the lower area the opponent, and the center row is the pot size. The blue boxes are where I entered data and the rest of it was calculated, which means I can re-run this for [...]

One of the things that surprise me often is the hand ranges that people will play in 3 bet pots, so obviously I’m looking at this differently than my opposition. This doesn’t mean I’m better than my opposition or worse, just not the same.
It’s very situation dependent. I’ve already looked at a variety of situations [...]

So I just completed a survey for Full Tilt. I don’t know if they are surveying all members, but I received an email asking me to participate in some feedback.
I like to do surveys on topics that are interesting to me. I’ve done a few gambling surveys put together by graduate students but they’ve all [...]

Here’s the crux of what I wanted to get to. I don’t have a lot of experience playing in 3 bet pots postflop because I play full ring and often at fairly low buyin levels so 3 betting is not commonplace.
First let’s make sure we know the situation. Someone has raised preflop. Someone has re-raised [...]