Continuing on from the previous post on coaching. I was an education major (amongst other things) in my undergraduate studies and have done some teaching in music. I’ve also taken classes and private lessons as an adult in music, martial arts, theatersports, and others. The email from my former co-worker who is now a management [...]

I’m on the mailing list for a former co-worker of mine who has gone into the business of coaching managers. Every couple of weeks he sends out an email writing about various management related topics and his thoughts on them. Recently he was reflecting on the Olympics that are taking place and how top tier [...]

At the poker table there are always adjustments to be made. Some are simply because we get different cards every time we play. Adjusting for the cards that we are dealt is the most basic adjustment. If we get crappy cards for the first 20 hands, we do a lot of folding. If we get [...]

A lot of “basic” poker advice is geared toward at least 0.10/0.25 or 0.25/0.50 levels, $1/$2 live games, or $10 tournament buyins levels or higher. Advice such as “continuation bet 80% of your hands” or “fold when your opponent bets a co-ordinated flop” are good, but only if your opponents understand that you are not [...]

In ‘Zen and the Art of Poker” there’s a line that goes, “You need to think of folding as a club you are using to pummel your opponents with.” The line prior to this says, “Very few events, games, or sports work this way, with the winner being the one who withdraws himself from competition [...]

Nothing like something new to spur new thoughts and revisits to old ones. I’m still on the Rush Poker train, and it’s generating thoughts and questions because of the difference from other online cash games. Rush Poker moves online poker closer to the experience of video poker because of the anonymity, random seating and the [...]

Apparently this has been brewing for some time. IPoker network, accessed by various poker “skins”, is requiring their skins to remove players who win too much. Victor Chandler Poker is one of the bigger skins on the IPoker network and recently has been tagged for sending out emails to players on their network who win [...]

Time for another Blog Carnival of Board and Card Games. I’m pleased that this month I got two submissions that actually qualify. Most of the time the submissions have nothing to do with board or card games, or else they’re about poker, and of a much lower quality of poker discussion than is already here. [...]