Monthly Archives: October 2006

Is LHE Dead?

With the passing of PartyPoker from the American landscape, the emerging leaders of online poker are clearly FullTilt and PokerStars. What has also emerged is largely the disappearance of the mid-stakes limit holdem game. As this is my bread and … Continue reading

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CC Gets Banned!

OK, I’m a horrible person, I understand.  I’m a disruptive force in the world of poker.  But did I really have to be banned from posting at a popular poker site?

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Should You Chat?

I’m sitting at a $0.10/0.25 NLHE $25-max table this morning at FullTilt when I start getting flamed, and so the question comes: should you join in and defend yourself, add fuel to the fire, or ignore it all?

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I Learned How to Play Poker Again

More like remembered how to play, I guess.  I folded my way to +$607.55 playing $10/20 HORSE and $15/30 LHE on PokerStars.  I made one major error doing another PLO experiment (I’d built $10 into $100) by catching the second … Continue reading

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Purgatory: $0.1/0.25 No Limit Omaha

After getting rid of $1.4k of my bankroll, I decided it was time for me to punish myself.  I’d been reading about an exercise that Kurosh did earlier this year where he would take a sponsor for $50, then min … Continue reading

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Sick of Losing

A horrendous day yesterday of casual poker, that’s a whopping $1.4k down in a few hours.  It was just dreadful to go through, and it’s a tired act to be honest with you.

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Topsy Turvy Weekend

I had a brutal run Friday afternoon on FullTilt, moving up $200 in $8/16 razz only to burn through $400 or so with two monster hands where guys caught me with runner-runner hands. All of that to say I dumped … Continue reading

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Surviving Tilt

With so much battering us today just trying to get to the felt, it is becoming easier to get put on tilt. Tilting isn’t the big problem for most of us; it’s getting through without going busto that’s the bigger … Continue reading

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WoW & Should You Put Someone on Tilt?

I’ve only done this a couple times in my time playing poker, trying to purposely put someone on tilt. I don’t believe this is unethical, but should this be part of your arsenal?

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Live Blogging: FullTilt and Multitasking

I’m donking around on FullTilt while working away as well. I have a telecon in the next bit, so I figured why not live blog a bit?

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