I don’t have a wide range of international contacts in the poker world, but I started playing just before the Unlawful Internet Gambling Enforcement Act (UIGEA) came into effect and most sites pulled out of the US market, dropping Party Poker in size and giving PokerStars and Full Tilt the opportunity to move to the [...]
The other day I was reading an article in the New Yorker about the kid who started Chatroulette. He’s quite young, and apparently part of the source for the idea for Chatroulette came from a job he had working in his uncle’s store selling to tourists. He didn’t sell much, but he liked practicing his [...]
According to reports around the poker world, the International Mind Sports Association has accepted poker along with its existing games; chess, bridge, draughts, and go. A big step in being recognized as a game of skill rather than a game of chance? Interesting thing about these reports; they come only from poker websites at this [...]
I read an interesting post on a forum the other day. The topic of the thread was bad beats and one female player, whom I know is a decent but not yet a great player and has played for some time, made the comment that when she gets bad beats, her “feeling are hurt by [...]
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 [...]
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. [...]
Somewhere waaaay back I wrote about my learning process and the stages that I tend to go through. Like, I’m a fast basic learner and can pick up a basic understanding pretty quickly. This has always stood me in good position during my schooling years. But if I want to go beyond basics then I [...]
Part I covered some basic elements to answering the question. For Part II there are some derivatives of the results in Part I. For one, I mentioned in Part I that if you’ve been at that level before, then playing underrolled or moving quickly through levels is not so bad. There are a number of [...]