“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 [...]
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 [...]
Picture yourself walking along a path on the side of a hill. Each step is like folding preflop. Fold, fold, fold. Then you decide to raise preflop. This is like a stomp, or a step off the path, a forceful step, asserting that you have a hand, that you’re not afraid to increase the stakes. [...]
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? [...]
At the time that I’m writing this I’ve made a move from playing 8 tables of 25nl to 6 or 7 tables of 50nl. Not a big sample size at either level recently as I’ve played both levels multiple times in the past, but something over 6,000 hands of 25nl and 1,500 at 50nl in [...]
I was looking back for some information from the early days of my posting, even before I made this into a blog, and I happened across this post from July of 2007. I’m reposting because I really did have the basics figured out, even then. But back then my problem was really assimilating this information [...]
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 [...]