At the bigger of the local home games I go to, it is popular among a certain breed of player (from here forward known as, the donk) to continue to draw at a gutshot straight, pretty much regardless of the price. I’ve seen several pots where a big hand got decimated by these players hitting […]
Tonight at a local 2/5 game, there were 2 or 3 huge pots where 2 different players ended up all in before the flop with AA vs KK or KK vs QQ. This kind of situation is the one big way a lot of great players end up losing their money: one sick huge hand […]
There’s been a bit of discussion lately among my local poker friends as to what “friendly play” consists of at a table. I play a few different games during the week, one a home game where it’s just friends and low blinds and moderate buyins, another slightly higher stakes ring game with many more unknown […]
So once a week at a local home game I play in a free roll tournament that usually has two full tables. Each player is given 1,000 chips and the blinds begin at 25/50, then double every ten minutes until they are 1000/2000. With ten minute rounds, and the play going pretty slow, you usually […]
So the entry period is still open for the bad beat contest, which includes World Poker Tour sponsored prizes of card decks and backpacks and shirts and stuff. Entry is easy: submit a bad beat story, the tale of the worst beat you put on or received from someone at the table, preferably for a […]
Here’s a good passage from Sklansky’s Hold Em for Advanced Players, on a topic I see misplayed rather a lot: betting when you’re heads up on the river:
“”When is it the best strategy to check and call? It is when your opponent will bet with any of the hands that he will call with, plus […]
Someone asked me the other day what is the best reading material for a person who is interested in learning hold em. I’ve read a pretty good number of these kind of books over the years. Here are my thoughts on them.
The first book I ever read was Theory of Poker by David Sklansky. This […]
So, if there’s anyone I can’t stand on this small earth, faux “comedian” (who basically only tells anecdotes in which she runs into famous people and says how weird it was) Kathy Griffin (and may I say dwarfed in annoyance only by the idiot mongaloids Tyra Banks and Rosie O’Donnell) recently went on a blind […]
A friend and local player, now known as Creation Killer on Full Tilt, is currently attempting to follow in Chris Fergusons’s footsteps (see earlier post on his turning $0 to $10,000) by employing a similar strategy, though he’s giving himself some space to breathe by starting with a little extra money, which I told him […]
Here are a few video reasons why Gus Hansen is the most fun to watch:
The following four are from the final regular episode of last season of Poker Super Stars where Gus goes all-in almost every hand preflop and wins.
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