Poker Perambulation

A lot went on today. I have good news and bad news. (more…)

You are going to get ‘frisked’ at the tables. Somebody always seems to be willing to look up your play regardless of image or the hand you are representing. It is one of life’s blessing when they do it with a crap hand play against your short stack. Everybody thinks it is possible to call you with Ax and even worse junk. Bless them. (more…)

Dan Harrington introduced many to the idea of ‘M’ in his first book. All of a sudden Tournament Players were rattling on about M like never before. Blinds were the way most had talked about it even if they still considered antes in later stages. On a site with no ante structure, M and Blind-relationship are identical. M just codified it better. M indicates your tournament health. It dictates what you must do to survive. (more…)

So, you’ve been running bad, eh? Your friends see you and head the other way so they don’t have to listen to another bad beat tale. Now you have no friends left and are still talking to yourself and even he’s getting tired of you. (more…)

Today’s topic is NL Holdem from the perspective of a tournament player or ABC player sitting down at the real money tables. (more…)

I wish I was a Howard Beale at this moment. Unfortunately, that’d be a lie. I may be mad as hell. But, it seems I may have no choice but to take it. (more…)

and then, for some similar enjoyment, beat on your thumb with a 2-lb sledge. (more…)

or, Lets Not Blow the Engine in Tournament Play (more…)

I did an article about common tournament flaws. I saved bluffing for its own attention. There is bluffing and then there is BLUFFING. You will see people who have it as a major part of their game in ring and tournament play. (more…)

The other day I got a PokerStars email with a free ticket to a qualifier for their 2.5-million freeroll. I hadn’t played on PokerStars in a LONG time. I’d got one of those free money deals and over the course of some games qualified and ran it up but the loose play was too strong on the suckouts and I left to likely never return. (more…)