One of the complaints about Rush Poker is the lack of reads on the opponents at your table. Kind of like playing poker blind, or maybe half-blind. Nearsighted without glasses, perhaps. You don’t know if your opponent calls down with any pair, or bets constantly trying to induce folds. It’s not “real” poker. One of [...]
Time for some players stats from my rush poker stats. Now, something is odd, but so far I can’t figure out what. In the exported data I show me with 16,587 hands while the HEM Report Manager shows 13,145 which I think is accurate. I have around 8,000 hands on Stars during the month, so [...]
One of the keys of poker is losing. It’s a fact that we all lose, and often. Even the best players lose hands, lose pots, lose sessions and lose tournaments because of the degree that chance plays in poker. But that losing keeps the bad players playing with us, so we have to lose, and [...]
“There are three ways to play a pair of Jacks, and they’re all wrong.” Ever hear that one before? Here are some things to keep in mind: As with all hands the full plan of how to play it is, “it depends” Our 2 hole cards are 2 of the five cards when the flop [...]
Rush Poker, new, at Full Tilt. Tilt’s new cash poker game. At the end of each hand for you (in other words, as soon as you fold) you are moved to a new table and are dealt new cards. No more waiting for hands. Don’t like your hand, click on the “Quick Fold” button and [...]
As usual, another great article by Ed Miller, but I have one thing that I’d qualify. Ed talks about how expected hand ranges hit different boards and result in weak, medium and strong hands, and then about how many hands of different strengths there will be given a particular board and our expected opponent’s range, [...]
Amir Vahedi, the player who is credited with being the first to state, “you must be willing to die in order to live”, passed away on January 8, 2010, at the age of 46. A one time Iranian soldier and a political refugee, Vahedi was indeed able to live and to win before his passing [...]
The other day I made a comment on a blog elsewhere, stating my feelings and reactions on an issue and why I felt that way. In my comment I listed three reasons why I choose to act in a certain manner in a certain situation, and as a fourth item I described an experience from [...]