Poker and gambling
Analyze a hand through my eyes: Question 1
[Unrelated poker thought: I use Poker Academy to practice cash game play when I’m not on a net connection. It’s AWESOME, but I’m good enough at reading my table now to tell that it doesn’t model the mood of the table at all. When 9 or 10 people first sit down to play, they’re on…
Read MoreWhy I’m playing nickel/dime Pot Limit Omaha Hi
This weekend I’ve been spending at home with my mom. She doesn’t have a lot of energy and in the evening when she falls asleep, I head over to the largest local poker room in St. Louis and play $1/$2 No Limit Texas Hold’em. I’ve done well there, mostly due to the poor quality of…
Read MoreThe karmic weight of poker.
From some random online casino news website: "A dealer can be a gamblers best friend or worst enemy, depending on the cards. But at the Isle of Capri Casino, they’re also expected to be a subtle observer. Jewel Cooper, a counselor with the Gambling Treatment Program at Allen Hospital is teaching those dealers how to…
Read MoreYou’ve gotta train to run a marathon
What’s it like to be entirely on top of your poker game? Why let me tell you… So I visited Lucky Chances yesterday and played a long session. I intended it to be short but more on that later. I did half an hour at $1/$2 spread limit and doubled up my $100 stack when…
Read MoreA session perfectly played
I played a 2 hour session of $4/$8 Limit Hold’em at the Capitol Casino yesterday. My focus was there and I played the session almost flawlessly. I don’t even mind that I only made $10. It felt so good to be in such command of my game. The tighter I played, the more I realized…
Read MoreTaking a shot at $8/$16
I feel I’ve got my $6/$12 game under control, and so tonight as I waited for a seat at $6/$12 I sat in the $8/$16 game (half kill). The half kill means that if you win two pots in a row, the stakes go up to $12/$24. I’m comfortable at these stakes, but I don’t…
Read MoreTilting to the left of me, tilting to the right, here I am stuck in the middle…
The lady to the right of me is muttering that the guy to my left is "brilliant, just brilliant. Just keep playing those cards." He consistently plays junk and beats her top pair because she doesn’t know how to play post-flop and can’t smell two pair. When she starts, he starts talking to himself, calling…
Read MoreIt’s time to get serious.
I’ve taken the last two afternoons off to play cards with Katie while she was visiting. We logged good time at both Bay 101 and Garden City Casino. (We liked the players at Garden City more, since they were more passive) I had a couple of epiphanies during my 7 hour $6/$12 session with Katie,…
Read MoreI should be sleeping…
…but I’m posting my rah rah hand moment. I played at the Big Dirty Game tonight. It was destined to be a tension filled evening. Of course I couldn’t forget my $800 slide there the last two sessions, along with my self-doubt that I was playing without a clue. After my successful no limit weekend…
Read MoreAtlantic City revisited
I just came back from my first of two birthday weekend celebrations in Atlantic City. Apart from the poker, I met someone from the local Maryland poker community, ehonda. The guy actually plays poker as much as I wish I could! Go check out his blog, I’ve been reading it for a while and when…
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