January 11th, 2008
Yeah, I’m blogging this one.
So, last night at my local home game, a $1/$1 blind NL game played with no rake and an average $60 buy-in, just for fun, I got into a rather strange situation.
The table had cleared down to 5 people. One player had acquired almost all of the chips at the table, […]
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November 25th, 2007
So, in looking at Jamie Gold and the way he basically talked himself out of losing another $150k, which is definitely his only obvious poker talent, annoying as it is, I remembered a pretty strange instance of table talk that happened at a home game I go to a while back.
Basically, two players ended up […]
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November 21st, 2007
Here’s a lesson I learned last night: when the dealer suggests you do something, you DO IT.
Last night I had a pretty weak run of luck. Lost a $100 buy in at one table by missing several raised flops and then getting sucked out for a decent sized pot where I went all in preflop […]
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November 16th, 2007
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 […]
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November 15th, 2007
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 […]
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October 31st, 2007
So, you go to a bigger sized no limit game with a bunch of strangers and you bring a friend. Your friend plays pretty solid poker. You end up in a pot with your friend alone and he bets out at you, equal to the size of the pot. You know he probably has at […]
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September 28th, 2007
It’s funny how when you’re playing at a table with a player or two who is loose and reckless and yet somehow keeps making huge hands and getting paid off, you know that in the long run, he’s going to get broke. So you stay at the table and probably tighten up a bit and […]
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