I was flipping though some poker blogs the other day. In one I was left trying to figure out how good he is, though he wrote about recently moving up to the $1/$2 tables online. Later in the post he talks about having gone bankrupt before. Not personally bankrupt, but his poker bankroll, both his [...]
Turn $5 into $100,000? By playing poker? And in less than 12 months? Boku87 set himself the challenge of doing so, and according to his blog, he’s made it. Chris Ferguson had the most famous version of this type of bankroll challenge, turning $0 into $10,000. So Boku87, a pro at PokerStars has taken it [...]
I had some discussions with a non-poker player about my difficulty getting comfortable moving to $50nl FR. 3-1/2 years ago I deposited $50 on PokerStars. After a month of donking around the bankroll was down to $18, but then I decided I would be willing to redeposit in order to earn the $50 deposit bonus. [...]
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 [...]
Somewhere waaaay back I wrote about my learning process and the stages that I tend to go through. Like, I’m a fast basic learner and can pick up a basic understanding pretty quickly. This has always stood me in good position during my schooling years. But if I want to go beyond basics then I [...]
Part I covered some basic elements to answering the question. For Part II there are some derivatives of the results in Part I. For one, I mentioned in Part I that if you’ve been at that level before, then playing underrolled or moving quickly through levels is not so bad. There are a number of [...]
You hear it over and over again; “I can’t stand the suckouts” “I hate the donks that chase and hit on the river” “I can’t beat these awful players” “He calls my AA with xx and flops a full house” “The site is rigged in favor of bad players to keep them playing” And finally; [...]
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 [...]