I sure am glad I slowplayed that
Not betting that flop when I wondered if I was ahead was a brilliant idea
I regret that C-bet
I’m thinking about these things I’ve never said because I lost a small hand when some guy hit his trips on the turn. I had put down a pre-flop raise with a [...]
If I can just learn to fold to every turn raise, ever, I can actually do this.
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.
When semi-bluffing the flush draw, make it the nut-flush draw, or you might be very disappointed when the guy who has been calling all along hits his nut flush draw and you have the sucker-flush.
Also, that re-raise on the turn probably means he has you sussed. If you don’t realize these two important things, you [...]
I have registered to play in the PokerStars World Blogger Championship of Online Poker!
This PokerStars tournament is a No Limit Texas Hold’em event exclusive to Bloggers.
Registration code: 482232
The problem with poker is that winning requires that you see the unseeable. Becoming good at poker is becoming good at intuiting that which is not visible.
The betting structure is limit. The play is exactly as in Texas Hold ‘em except that after each round of betting, you pass one card to the left and one card to the right. That includes the river.
P.S. After talking to Matt about this game, perhaps it’s true that the game should have nine streets, [...]
My general picture of Pot Limit Omaha at this point is kind of like it’s a hybrid of limit hold’em and no-limit hold ‘em, at least in a big-picture kind of a way. In limit hold ‘em, the money you make is in large part in the bets you don’t make. In no limit hold [...]
According to some good poker strategies I’ve heard, you need to be thinking exactly one level deeper than your opponent. If your opponent is thinking on level one, you need to be thinking on level two.
For those unfamiliar, here’s what that means:
Level Zero
What’s my hand?
Level One
What’s his hand?
Level Two
What hand does he think I have?
Level [...]
I forgot that rule. When the calling station bets it out, it means he has something.
