Posts Tagged ‘poker’
Poker homework: what hands beat you?
So my coach and I were talking about some different ways of doing board analysis, and he suggested I compute "the hands that beat me" on every street. Getting significantly better at board analysis is important as I move up limits from the microstakes I've been playing. While I'll continue to use poker bonuses on…
Read MoreSafdar Tournament Poker Bootcamp: Results
[I love this photo of Vegas I took on the strip outside Planet Hollywood. Rampant overbuilding, sex blatantly for sale, and Salvation Army, all in the same shot. It's the epitome of the city to me. -Shabbir] Though I played a lot of poker, and met a new poker colleague who lives in the Bay…
Read MorePoker coaching
So my coach and I have settled into a new routine. I play all week, pick a session at random, and then run it through a processor and add my notes and send it off. A day later he sends back notes on my notes and we get on the phone and talk for an…
Read MoreCongrats, you beat 51 people to win an entry into a poker tournament you can’t compete for!
Any denials that "I am not a degenerate gambler" just went out the window. I play sometimes on sportsbook.com, one of the Cake network poker sites that's really a sportsbetting website. I don't sports bet (if you know me at all, you know my aversion to anything else in a casino except poker) but I've…
Read MorePoker Strategy – Pot Odds, Hand Strength, and other topics
IntroductionI’ve been playing poker since I was a kid, when my family played 5 card draw in between highly competitive games of Uno. (Cheating was a strategy, and mirrors were employed once to great effect.) However I’ve really only been studying poker since 2005. I’m at that level where if a handful of casual friends…
Read MoreDealing with a blinds thief / stealing the blinds / defending your blind
It happens all the time in Hold’em: you’re in the big blind and some jackass goes to steal your big blind. Stealing blinds is good money in a casino that doesn’t rake until the flop, but to be successful at it you have to be able to play after the flop or pick on a…
Read MoreSafdar Tournament Poker Bootcamp
Attention friends, especially Matt's friend, Lem who will be in Vegas December 5th: There's talk of a tournament-focused trip to Vegas to reprise the Safdar Tournament Poker Bootcamp from this summer, the weekend of December 5th thru Tuesday December 9. Most of us have not cleared it with our spouses. If it comes together, we'd…
Read MoreShenanigans in Reno, NV
My Obama partner and I have two red staters assigned to watch us. We all sit here in the observer pen. They complain about everything we do, and have the McCain palin lawyers on speed dial. My friend in sparks brought me a coat and hat since it's snowing and the McCain volunteer stood…
Read MoreBuilding your mathematical poker game (preflop)
One of the first things my poker coach did, after looking at a sample of my hands, was to send me to hit the books and tell me not to play poker until I was done with probability homework. He wanted me to work the math out for my game to understand the values of…
Read MoreThings that make me happy
My poker tutor doesn’t think I’m a complete idiot. He sat behind me today while I played a 3 hour session at my local cardroom and gave me a lot of really good advice, none of which was, "You need to go find a lower stakes game while you figure out how to play poker."…
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