The Zen of playing multiple tables

Wednesday, March 24th, 2010

(Written backĀ  early Dec of 2009; I guess I never opted to publish it so it’s been sitting in my review basket) One of the potential advantages of playing multiple tables of online poker is that you can gain some detachment. You aren’t staring at one or two tables the entire time, you whole poker [...]

MIDI music composition is like playing Poker because …

Saturday, March 28th, 2009

Years ago I wrote MIDI music as a hobby. I had a nice external KORG sound source, touch sensitive keyboard, and stored the information using my computer and MIDI software. I recorded a CD of some of my favorite completed stuff and shipped copies out to relatives. Recently I dug the CD out and started [...]

Update: Multi-tabling/HUD/full stack/postflop project

Wednesday, March 25th, 2009

At the time that I’m writing this I’m still on my project of playing 6 – 8 tables of $10nl, taking occasional sessions at $25nl. This is in spite of the fact that with my current bankroll I could be playing $25nl and taking stabs at $50. But there’s things to be learned since I [...]

Update on mulit tabling results

Friday, February 20th, 2009

I’m working on my full stack ring game, focusing on 1) adding more tables, and 2) using the HUD in place of reads that come from watching as many hands as possible. To make it easy to do this, I’ve dropped down a level as well. So far things are going well. Some things I [...]

Playing poker, and stress

Monday, February 16th, 2009

In the previous post I was looking at little voices behind my poker actions, and came to the conclusion that most of the inappropriate voices came from either a fight or a flight response to the situation. Fight or flight is linked with stress as a topic. Stress, apparently, is caused by situations that engage [...]

Why miss hands when multi tabling?

Tuesday, December 16th, 2008

I watch videos of people multi tabling no limit hold’em poker games. Some are intended as instructional videos, and others are done by players at various levels just to show how they play and are made available as much for generating comments on their play to help them improve as anything else. What I’ve been [...]