I just had the opportunity to stack two dudes with an inside straight draw. Assuming I could stack one of them, I was just barely getting implied odds. I declined to call though, mostly because it was a tourney and the value of calling there, I think, is lower, since the cost of the chips [...]
Category Archives: Tourney Strategy
Position
Sunday, September 14, 2008
I’m at the end of a tourney right now — three way, the top stack (me) has 12 BB.
When it gets to this crazy time in a tourney, position loses its conventional meaning. It seems like right now, being the first to raise give you many of the advantages conventionally conferred with position — intimidation, [...]
Third Break
Thursday, April 17, 2008
I’m currently at the third break in a 3,000+ player tourney. Here are my stats.
During current Hold’em session you were dealt 258 hands and saw flop:
- 14 out of 29 times while in big blind (48%)
- 2 out of 29 times while in small blind (6%)
- 6 out of 200 times in other positions (3%)
- [...]
What To Note?
Wednesday, December 19, 2007
What do you write down in those notes on players? Things like Tight/Passive or Likes To Slowplay? I used to do that. Anymore though, I try to notice what level players are thinking on. 0th level, 1st level, 2nd level. You won’t find much deeper thinking than that in the donkey pens, but the difference [...]
Doing The Unstuck
Wednesday, July 4, 2007
I’m slowly but surely getting unstuck and it feels good.
I think I’m only now learning just how tight you have to be in these one table SNGs , which is what I’m sticking to until I have the roll to sit at the cash tables again.
At any rate, in these SNGs you start with 75 [...]
Initial Monkey
Tuesday, June 12, 2007
I just took third in the initial Monkey Tourney at Poker Stars. Mike came over, per our usual and made a good time of it.
After I got into the money (the tourney payed three) I got a little pushy and ended up getting pushed back. It’s always hard to gauge when to push and when [...]
Mistakes and Checking
Thursday, June 7, 2007
I’ve been thinking a lot lately about The Theory of Poker by Sklansky.
Sklansky’s Fundamental Theorem of Poker:
Every time you play a hand differently from the way you would have played it if you could see all your opponents’ cards, they gain; and every time you play your hand the same way [...]
Pushy Pushy
Monday, June 4, 2007
I made this crazy play in a little $10 one table sit and go on the very first hand. I get pocket eights on the button. There are a couple middle/late position limpers to me, and I limp as well.
Small blind calls, and the big blind gets the option and takes his option to min [...]
On Pushmonkeys
Monday, May 14, 2007
Last night in the Wheatie, one particular player kept doling out insults — particularly the insult “pushmonkey.” From context, I took it to mean that he didn’t approve of people betting too hard pre–flop with premium hands.
I’m really not a fan of criticizing other players’ play while at the table, and I think it makes [...]
