I signed up for a Leakfinder session with Splitsuit, full ring no limit holdem coach on the former Stox poker site. When you sign up for it you get one stats review session with Mpethy and one sweat with Splitsuit. I signed up back at the end of March when I was still trying to [...]
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. [...]
Back in December (2009) PokerStars made another run at the Guinness record for the biggest poker tournament. After hours of wading through 149,196 players to finish second, bommel222 won $30,000 for his $1 investment. After a prior lifetime high winnings of $26, he promptly lost all of it, in the period of just over a [...]
Are you ever hesitant or afraid to make what you believe is the correct poker play? You’ve read about how to play, studied some hand histories and analysis, now one of the situations faces you. When do you hold back? Or hesitate? Second guess yourself, not because you’re not sure, but as a delay tactic? [...]
I had been doing a little tracking of an article written about government lotteries and gambling. What struck me was the opinions of some of the people on the topic. Who cares. If people can afford it and want to play they can. If someone who can’t afford it is dumb enough to play for [...]
Just a quick post. Poker Table Ratings (PTR) did a survey. I don’t recall if I participated in the survey; I usually do most out of curiosity but I don’t remember these questions so maybe I skipped this one. Some interesting things to note: 8% claim to be beginners, 40% intermediate, 30% advanced players 49% [...]
One of my kids bought a Wii recently and I’ve been doing some playing on it. Someone mentioned that you can buy games by downloading so I went to the Nintendo site to look around. So of course they have a poker game for Wii, maybe more than one. The one that’s listed on the [...]
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