Archive for August, 2009

Why don’t I play poker that way?

Monday, August 24th, 2009

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 play poker?

Saturday, August 22nd, 2009

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 [...]

Sexy Poker, for the Wii

Wednesday, August 19th, 2009

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 [...]

The Poker Playbook: Categorized listing of basic poker plays and styles I: Preflop plays

Saturday, August 8th, 2009

(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 using [...]

The Poker Playbook: Categorized listing of basic poker plays and styles II: Postflop plays

Thursday, August 6th, 2009

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 [...]

The value of holding suited cards

Wednesday, August 5th, 2009

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 [...]

August Carnival of Card and Board Games

Sunday, August 2nd, 2009

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 [...]