Posts Tagged ‘poker’
Modeling $3/$6 players
I’m doing some math modeling of hand equity of various hands with pokerstove. What happens to JJ at a table when someone raises,and you’ve got 2, 3, 4 players? What if they’re solid players? What if one is a complete donk? Does the hand have a positive or negative expected value? If you were doing…
Read MoreHow do you play Aces when there’s an Aces cracked bonus available?
For reasons more complicated than I can explain here, my weekday schedule has me awake when everyone else is asleep from 4:30am or 5am onwards. Tuesday through Friday I’ve been spending 2-3 hours every morning at my local poker room. (Yes it’s surprisingly full at that time of the morning) From 6-9am they have a…
Read MoreA raid in Maryland; my poker game; my big yard project
It hasn’t hit the news yet, but there was another SWAT team raid of a poker game in Maryland in the last week. This time it appears they just confiscated the money and chips, cards, and tables. Perhaps they will press charges later, but on the whole, I suspect this is just easy money and…
Read MoreFunniest thing I heard all day
Some of you know that I take my poker game very seriously. I’ve been working for four years on my game, through books, occasional coaches, analysis, and tons of practice. I recently picked up a new poker coach and he said something that I found hysterical. "If you enter the pot and your opponents aren’t…
Read MoreCrushing the $3/$6 tables
It being his birthday, I’m going to give my buddy Chris Hannigan an unusual present. I’m going to freely admit now that in the past, when I said, "You can’t make money at $3/$6 limit poker", I was full of crap. Chris always disagreed with me. I dropped down to the $3/$6 tables the other…
Read MoreO’Shea’s Casino and the Vegas Carnival
When I say Vegas is like a carnival, it was never more obvious to me than at O’Shea’s casino. I was sitting at a $1/$2 no limit table, waiting for the poker tournament to start. I had just cracked a guy’s Aces with 76o and two pair when I saw a "little person" walk by…
Read MoreVegas recap
I’ll post the third day wrapup later, but the upshot on Vegas is that I made a total net of $544 on tournament wins, and I lost net $158 on the cash games I played waiting for tournaments to start, or waiting for Tim or Katie to finish a tourney they were in. Those are…
Read MoreI’m looking forward to Gus Hansen’s upcoming book: Every Hand Revealed
"Every Hand Revealed" is a hand-by-hand explanation of how he won a multi-day tournament. The technique of recording every hand with a pocket tape recorder is just as interesting to me as what I’m likely to learn about his thinking throughout the tournament. I am a little self-conscious of the fact that I’ve got three…
Read MoreRatholing chips: surreptitiously removing chips from your stack while still at the table
One of the basic tenets of fairness in a poker game is that you can’t remove money from the table until you get up. You can (and should) count it all you want, but it’s got to stay on the table. This gives the other players a chance to win it back from you. So…
Read More“In God We Trust, all others bring data.” -Edward Deming
You’ve known that I have for a long time tried hard to figure out what is the appropriate session length in poker. It’s so much harder than Sklansky’s clever but not useful cliche, "Don’t quit winners", or Mike Caro’s advice "You’re always even" (so don’t try and get even before you leave the game). So…
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