I currently have 36 buy-ins for $50 No Limit. Hopefully over the next week I can make the remaining 4 to hit my goal of 40 buy-ins before I move up.
This move has me feeling more nervous than the move from $10 to $25 for some reason. I don’t know if I should stick around [...]
I see an attitude in online poker forums, and I hear the same complaints from live players: “I hate short stackers. They don’t know how to play the game right!”
Personally, I find it delightful to sit down at a poker table and see players who don’t know how to play the game right. But that’s [...]
Poker Stars $0.10/$0.25 No Limit Hold’em – 9 players
The Official DeucesCracked.com Hand History Converter
UTG+1: $34.40
UTG+2: $24.40
MP1: $8.50
MP2: $23.40
CO: $24.05
BTN: $5.50
Hero (SB): $33.50
BB: $25.00
UTG: $25.35
Pre Flop: ($0.35) Hero is SB with 3 5
4 folds, MP2 calls $0.25, 1 fold, BTN raises to $5.50 all in, Hero raises to $10.75, 2 folds
Flop: ($11.50) 4 Q 2 (2 [...]
I’m moving up to $25 buy-in No Limit. I have 19 buy-ins, which is one fewer than the supposedly requisite 20 buy-ins, but since the rake will be half as much than it was at $10 No Limit, I think moving up one buy-in early is fine. And I’m setting myself a stop-gap of 17 [...]
I’m doing well, but things bear repeating, at least to myself, so I don’t forget them.
At the donkey tables, if it looks like someone is putting on a brilliant bluff on a troublesome board, he’s not. He just hit his unlikely, stupid hand. Fold.
Focus on the game, not on the bankroll. There’s a lot to [...]
I’m going to try to recount a hand from tonight’s home game.
.5/.10 Texas Hold ‘Em. Location: Basement. Food: Beer & Cupcakes.
Alan (SB)
Mike (BB): $15?
Me: $18?
Roman
Jim
My cards: 7h 4d
I open raise to 30c. Roman calls. Alan calls. Mike re-raises up to $1.10. I call. Roman and Alan fold.
Pot: ~$3
Flop: 9h 8d 5c
Mike checks. I check.
Pot: ~$3
Turn: [...]
Up two and a half buy-ins in a one hour session. Now that’s more like it. Wouldn’t it be great if it was like that all the time.
The answer, apparently, is: Four!
I’m on a major downswing right now, which is a shame because I feel like the downswing has really sharpened up my game. I’m looking for and finding ways to snatch pots, and avoiding problematic abortive-pot-snatchings. I’m just failing to hit big hands, and then when I do hit the second-nut, [...]
Sometimes, heads-up, you end up playing some hands you might not otherwise play.
PokerStars No-Limit Hold’em, $0.10 BB (2 handed) – Poker-Stars Converter Tool from FlopTurnRiver.com
SB ($10)
A’arab Zaraq (Button) ($10)
Preflop: A’arab Zaraq is Button with 2, 4
A’arab Zaraq raises to $0.40, SB raises to $0.70, A’arab Zaraq calls $0.30
Flop: ($1.40) 4, A, 4 (2 players)
SB bets $0.10, A’arab Zaraq raises [...]
