Here’s a player that I found interesting. Recent contributor as a poster, seemingly beginner-ish level of poker knowledge, yet sporadic references to playing levels as high as $400nl. PTR says -$2,000, bb/100 of 0.13, hands tracked 135,000. Tracked since September 2008, Career peak April 2009, Worst day -1,000 April 2010 The bulk of his playing [...]
I had the realization that if you believe in something, and a group of people believe otherwise, and these people gather to tell you that you’re wrong, it’s logical that you would see these people as “clique-y” and maybe see their gang mentality as “high-schoolish”. Classic conspiracy theory? ~ Fred joins a poker discussion group. [...]
Well, I’m not really designing a poker bot, per se. But it’s an approach that I’m planning to use for a while. A respected (by others besides myself) poker friend of mine once suggested establishing a goal for your poker sessions, such as, focus on opportunities to float. Then you would keep an eye out [...]
“Sticking your neck out” = Raising, especially preflop? I’ve always used this blog to track little thoughts that come into my head. Yesterday I was playing a form of poker that I haven’t played for a while. Often when I play something unfamiliar or that I haven’t played recently there’s more anxiousness and decisions aren’t [...]
Have you ever tried playing against yourself, running two instances of the same game so you can play against yourself? Run a little competition between one version of yourself and the other? As a kid I remember shooting baskets and playing a game of 21 by myself. One player was named Ernie and the other [...]
One of my current projects is to play $10nl full ring Rush Poker until I earn $100. This is partly because I can’t bring myself to give up on the convenience of Rush (crack) poker and also because I want to do something with the undersized ($300) portion my of bankroll that I have at [...]
Here’s a weird game that I’ve never noticed before. It was probably always there and I never saw it. On Full Tilt for 5 FTP points you can play a 180 seat Rush Poker tournament in Super Turbo format. Super Turbo means that you start with 300 chips and the blinds are 15/30. Rush means [...]
Expectations and hopes can be an issue for poker players. Beginner poker players get AA/KK preflop and they expect to win the hand. They’re going to live and die with it, even if they limped it preflop and 5 players see a 976 flop. I’m no expert but I’m no beginner either and when I [...]