Two flops. 955 985 One is very dry, the other drawy. What’s the difference? Flop 1. there are very few hands that this flop helps, especially if someone raised preflop. Yes it’s possible that your opponent holds a 9 but there are far more AK/AQ/AJ/AT/KQ/QJ/JT hands that miss this flop entirely. In a limped pot, [...]
I was looking back for some information from the early days of my posting, even before I made this into a blog, and I happened across this post from July of 2007. I’m reposting because I really did have the basics figured out, even then. But back then my problem was really assimilating this information [...]
I was sitting at a 10nl table the other day ’cause some friends were playing. I knew about half the table, but not the opponent in this hand. His stats were something like 28/20/5 over 60 hands or so. Table Information Seat 1: Player 1 ($11.80) Big Blind Seat 2: Player 2 ($18.80) Seat 4: [...]
Some thoughts on small sample sizes. Generally any HUD stats with hand totals below 40 or so are of questionable value. At least, that used to be the default settings for PokerTracker II which was the first HUD that I used. Personally I have mine appear as soon as I have one hand in the [...]
This from the Monday, November 16th, 2009, edition of the comic strip Blondie. I could link to it but I don’t know if it moves. They do have their own website; www.blondie.com. In the first panel Dagwood is lying in bed, apparently worrying about their financial affairs, and says: “We need to come up with [...]
Somewhere waaaay back I wrote about my learning process and the stages that I tend to go through. Like, I’m a fast basic learner and can pick up a basic understanding pretty quickly. This has always stood me in good position during my schooling years. But if I want to go beyond basics then I [...]
Part I covered some basic elements to answering the question. For Part II there are some derivatives of the results in Part I. For one, I mentioned in Part I that if you’ve been at that level before, then playing underrolled or moving quickly through levels is not so bad. There are a number of [...]
You hear it over and over again; “I can’t stand the suckouts” “I hate the donks that chase and hit on the river” “I can’t beat these awful players” “He calls my AA with xx and flops a full house” “The site is rigged in favor of bad players to keep them playing” And finally; [...]