November 7th, 2007
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 […]
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November 4th, 2007
Nothing irks me more than when someone wins a pot and says, “Ship it.”
Usually these people are bad players who got lucky and aren’t so used to winning big pots and so feel the need to bask in the warm glow of actually getting money instead of donking off their paycheck that they could have […]
By Blake -- 3 comments
October 27th, 2007
So you’re a table with several donkey players. You see a flop on the button in a minorly raised pot with KJ. The flop comes K 7 5 rainbow. A player in front of you, who has been betting or calling on almost every hand, bets into the board. The other players fold to you. […]
By Blake -- 3 comments
October 21st, 2007
What did I just say? That you should leave a game when you know you’re playing wrong?
Harder than it sounds.
I messed up last night trying to get cute with QQ under the gun. Limped, let 5 people in. Bet the flop of 238 hard and got called by the player named “Gambler.” On the turn […]
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October 16th, 2007
There’s always the guy that sucks at cards at a table. If you’re lucky that is: the guy who pays off every hand no matter how obvious it his he is beat; who even though sometimes he gets lucky and sucks out is 90% of the time going to end up dumping a lot of […]
By Blake -- 2 comments
October 9th, 2007
Someone is trying to get me to go play free bar poker tonight. I hate playing free bar poker. Every time I’ve ever played free bar poker it’s been a free for all of thin-skulled donks tossing their crud into the ring every other hand to see who wins the donk trophy and gets to […]
By Blake -- 9 comments
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