“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 [...]
I had thought that I had something like this somewhere in my blog already, but apparently not. I want to look at strength of hands by position, and the percentage of total hands that those starting hands represent. In the version that I was searching for I thought that I had used Phil Gordon’s starting [...]
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? [...]
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 [...]
(Note: obv I wrote this post and part II in advance, then accidentally scheduled them backwards with Part II being posted first) This is a collection of poker plays, separated into preflop plays and postflop plays. It’s a different way of analysing players according to what actions they have in their playbook. Rather than using [...]
Continuation of the listing, for postflop plays. Categorized plays; Postflop Fit or Fold; Stats: low postflop aggression and bet frequency easy decision making minimizing risks probably need to see lots of flops and to call down with underpairs and 2nd or even 3rd pair on flop may need to be a chaser as well, chasing [...]
I have a general propensity toward worrying too much. For me it’s not a big deal most of the time, but unfortunately my 12 year old daughter seems to have inherited that propensity in a different, larger and more debilitating manner. These days she is experiencing a nervous “tic” of needing to go to the [...]
I drive to work each day on a street with two lanes for traffic each direction. It goes through mostly residential areas so the right hand lanes in both directions are available for street parking in the evenings or weekends. You know the type. During rush hour there are long stretches where there are often [...]