Recently I had the thought to check up on a player that my reader Pat pointed out to me back when I made this series of blog posts. Here’s their recent graph at Sharkscope: Still a pretty steady graph. And still consistently losing. I’m curious as to what they played at around 1,700 hands for [...]
Some time ago I sent an email to an online friend, someone whom I consider to be something of an online sensei in the realm of Zen. Unlike the author of Zen and the Art of Poker my friend doesn’t know much about poker, but also unlike the author of that book my friend does [...]
It’s tough starting out in poker. You can read all kinds of advice and theory but when it comes time at the table can you do it? Can you remember all the theory and the specifics you should look for to make a specific play? What happens to you when it doesn’t work? Or when [...]
One of the keys of poker is losing. It’s a fact that we all lose, and often. Even the best players lose hands, lose pots, lose sessions and lose tournaments because of the degree that chance plays in poker. But that losing keeps the bad players playing with us, so we have to lose, and [...]
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 [...]
I was watching the pregame NFL show today and they had a bit with Philip Rivers, quarterback for the San Deigo Chargers. One of the things that he said is that he hates to lose, even more than he likes to win. He says that’s what keeps him going, studying tape, preparing himself so that [...]
Pat, who is a regular reader of this blog, sent me an interesting question. Pat discovered that one of the regular players in the circuit is losing money, a fair amount of money, and in a short period of time. Here’s a graph and some results: Across the top summary line you can see 715 [...]
Wow, I just ran across an old and awful internet posting that appears all over the place. “The Fallacy of Online Poker Gambling” Google it if you want to read it; it’s in a lot of places and I’m not sure where the original posting exists, if it does still exist. “The top poker players [...]