When I was in fifth grade marbles were a big thing in our school. But we didn’t have the ordinary marble games where you chase each other around by trying to hit your opponent’s marble, or trying to knock other marbles out of a circle that’s drawn in the dirt. Our marble gaming area was [...]
What is a “cooler”? A cooler in poker is when you are dealt a big hand, only to find out that you were up against a bigger hand. The term comes from “cold deck”, one where you aren’t getting cards to play, and this came from references to a fixed deck, or one that someone [...]
Just a quickie shout out. I mentioned in another post that I was reading Leatherass’s book. Here’s a video link to a news site clip about Dusty in his attempt to raise money for the homeless, by donating his winnings to a nonprofit organization that helps the homeless.
What is a “tagfish”? There seem to be different definitions for the term tagfish floating around. The wording of the term implies someone that plays or is trying to play the tight-aggressive style of playing but is also still a fish; someone that is exploitable. One version of the tagfish is the player who has [...]
I was reading the new book by Leatherass, “Treat Your Poker Like A Business.” I may add a book review later, but at the moment I’m not finished reading it. This is going to be another one of my posts where I attempt to apply some form of analysis structure to poker to see if [...]
Picture yourself walking along a path on the side of a hill. Each step is like folding preflop. Fold, fold, fold. Then you decide to raise preflop. This is like a stomp, or a step off the path, a forceful step, asserting that you have a hand, that you’re not afraid to increase the stakes. [...]
Are you ever hesitant or afraid to make what you believe is the correct poker play? You’ve read about how to play, studied some hand histories and analysis, now one of the situations faces you. When do you hold back? Or hesitate? Second guess yourself, not because you’re not sure, but as a delay tactic? [...]
At the time that I’m writing this I’ve made a move from playing 8 tables of 25nl to 6 or 7 tables of 50nl. Not a big sample size at either level recently as I’ve played both levels multiple times in the past, but something over 6,000 hands of 25nl and 1,500 at 50nl in [...]