When I was in fifth grade marbles were a big thing in our school. But we didn’t have the ordinary marble games where you chase each other around by trying to hit your opponent’s marble, or trying to knock other marbles out of a circle that’s drawn in the dirt.
Our marble gaming area was like [...]

This is just me, working through something that I need to work through because I don’t have it burned into memory yet.
Last night I sat at two $25nl tables at Tilt to earn some FTP points for their September promotion. At one table I had been fairly active due to the hands that I had [...]

I wrote a post long ago about starting hands to play in No Limit Hold’em,
No limit Hold’Em; another beginners strategy. Part 1: Preflop hand selection. It was as simple as I could make it, and gave basic guidelines for a beginner.
Once you get a feel for playing those hands, there are more hands that are [...]

Calling an all-in preflop, or, calling a preflop raise that will put you all-in, requires putting your opponent on a range of hands that he’s likely to be making this move with. ICM helps to determine when this is the correct call, but ICM starts from the odds that your hand will win against the [...]

I saw a site which sells a preflop poker hand odds calculator. Its a hand-held calculator, and “keeps you from cluttering you screen while you play”, or something like that.
Here’s my preflop hand calculator.

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Pairs are listed on the left, then Ace-high hands, King-high hands, across to Jacks, then underneath the [...]

More from the raise/fold practice. It’s difficult to play from the SB with this exercise. Unless there is only one limper or no limpers I’m hesitant to raise. Raising is fine if I have a decent hand, otherwise I’m folding a lot.
I know that I have a tendency to complete too often from the SB, [...]