Followup post based on the the theory that your primary objective as you play poker should be:
“Play and study so that you can work your way up to higher stakes and make a decent hourly rate.”
In theory it sounds good, though perhaps a little money-hungry. I’ve been playing poker for a while now. Why haven’t [...]
Here’s someone’s idea about what your primary objective should be as you play poker.
“Play and study so that you can work your way up to higher stakes and make a decent hourly rate.”
Now, inherent in this philosophy are some things that are not explicitly stated but which make sense assuming that the above comment is [...]
One of my kids bought a Wii recently and I’ve been doing some playing on it. Someone mentioned that you can buy games by downloading so I went to the Nintendo site to look around.
So of course they have a poker game for Wii, maybe more than one. The one that’s listed on the index [...]
(Note: obv I wrote this post and part II in advance, then accidentally scheduled them backwards with Part II being posted first)
This is a collection of poker plays, separated into preflop plays and postflop plays. It’s a different way of analysing players according to what actions they have in their playbook. Rather than [...]
Continuation of the listing, for postflop plays.
Categorized plays; Postflop
Fit or Fold; Stats: low postflop aggression and bet frequency
easy decision making
minimizing risks
probably need to see lots of flops and to call down with underpairs and 2nd or even 3rd pair on flop
may need to be a chaser as well, chasing with draws and with overcards
give up [...]
Having two suited cards in no limit hold’em is always nice.
Long ago I offered a “preflop hand strength calculator” showing how all preflop hands hold up against random hands. In later posts I’ve noted that being suited adds only 2 or 3 percentage points to the value of any given hand; for example 98s is [...]
Okay, time for another in the series of Carnival of Card and Board Games.
I get less submissions that I’d like, but then maybe it’s not a popular topic. Still, I like to continue it just for the relevant submissions that I do get. This time there’s a blog devoted to eco-friendly items, who offers a [...]