“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 [...]
What causes us to play too conservatively? We may have a standard TAG game or be somewhat LAG, but there are times where we just don’t play our normal game, where we find ourselves opting too frequently to check or fold or to passively call down rather than betting out or raising. Here are some [...]
A couple days ago we had some people visiting. The conversation topics were far ranging but at one point one person was talking about carrying a knife when traveling for self-defense and then continued on saying how people are more afraid when faced with a knife than when faced with a gun. Another person suggested [...]
My new mantra. I don’t think it’s for everyone ’cause some people will interpret the “cautious” part as meaning “don’t bet without a strong hand”, but I think it’s good for someone like me that, on the one hands sometimes falls into a passive mode and alternatively starts to spew when I think that players [...]
I was searching through some of my old posts, searching for cashout/deposit information because I was trying to build a spreadsheet that tracks my “net”; my online bankrolls plus my net cashout/deposits. It’s actually starting to get to the point that I can’t keep track easily any more because of redeposits (chasing redeposit bonuses) and [...]
Are you free? Or maybe the question should be, how free are you? To what degree can you say that you chose to work every day, at the job that you work at? Or school, or family situation? Sometimes I wonder about people who commit crimes or commit suicide or suffer mental breakdowns or stress [...]
Followup post based on the the theory that your primary objective as you play poker should be: “Play and study so that you can work your way up to higher stakes and make a decent hourly rate.” In theory it sounds good, though perhaps a little money-hungry. I’ve been playing poker for a while now. [...]
Slowly, slowly, slowly I’m starting to get more and more of a grasp on the separation between playing your hand based on expected value as separate from what happens afterwards. I’m more familiar with the idea of expected value given the situation and opponent’s range versus what actually is the hand your opponent holds, and [...]