Posts Tagged ‘strategy’
Heads Up Poker Hand Selection
So for my Internet poker practice I’ve been almost exclusively playing heads up limit Texas Hold’em lately. I don’t claim to be particularly good at it yet. I’ve written before about my efforts to beat sparbot, an AI that plays a perfectly balanced game theory variant of Hold’em, but playing a real people online is…
Read MoreStrategies and tactics of heads up poker
My ongoing heads up battle against Sparbot, the Univ. of Alberta poker model Though it doesn’t happen very often in a cash games, heads up poker (just you and one opponent) is the gauntlet you have to master to win any poker tournament. It’s actually a good exercise for the rest of your poker career…
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 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 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."…
Read MoreModeling $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…
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