Poker and gambling

For a guy that plays low stakes, I’ve been running a little hot.  Last night I hit an online $1/$2 Omaha/8 No LIMIT game and relieved folks of over $200 in a little over an hour.  I am a decent Omaha/8 player, but I’m not that good.  Omaha’s a pretty complex game, with enough potential…

It’s really true.  If you found a wonderfully loose card game full of poor players playing for decent stakes, you’d keep your mouth shut. And I will, mostly, except that I’m going to crow a little bit.  I won’t talk about where it is, who’s hosting it, or anything else that might allow you to…

On one of the noted poker discussion boards, 2+2, players have been discussing the discovery of poker software ‘bots’ that have been playing the $22 one table high speed tournaments. What’s scary is that these robots were only caught because of an obvious pattern in their betting which was so unusual it drew attention.  Once…

I’ve written this post a million times before, and when I die, they’re going to stick it on my memorial plaque somewhere.  "Pride Goeth Before The Fall" is what Shabbir always said, tossing off a wave as he pulled away on his Harley without wearing a helmet. Then he got hit by a truck and…

I was wrong, I did get to play some more poker in Vegas before I left town.  And I played some craps, which I won’t do again. My colleague who joined me in Vegas for the conference is a craps fan, and doesn’t really enjoy poker as it’s played in a casino, so for us…

I have some work in Vegas and came a day early to try and make myself available for some meetings.  The meetings fell through, so I played some cards.  I consulted AllVegasPoker for some poker room reviews before heading out for the day.  With so many poker rooms in Vegas, you need a good resource…

All the stuff that I didn’t get to post earlier in the week… Why does the guy next to me on the train think it’s appropriate to call his doctor on his cellphone, describe his medical symptoms, and then make an appointment?  Would he want his doctor, health insurance plan, or hospital to be that…

Any day I ride my motorcycle into work is a good day.  No matter what else happens, it’s a really, really good day. I’m headed out to play some cards Friday night, and I’m tres excited.  It’s a low stakes game, $1/$2 with a rotating game.  One round of Hold’em, then Omaha, then Razz, then…

Tropicana $7.50/$15 "pink chip" gameOur game of choice on this trip was the pink chip game at the Trop.   The Tropicana poker room has printed up special pink chips that are worth $2.50 each.  The game is limit hold’em, stakes are $7.50/$15.  Because $7.50 is a mere three pink chips, people tend to bet without…

Most of what I did on day two was hit some tournaments.  Here’s the writeup. Caeser’s Poker Palace $80+$15 No limit hold’emI played the 3pm poker tournament on Friday.  I played it well until right after the first break I pushed a kid around who had limped into the pot under the gun.  I was…