Poker Perambulation

Like the corners of my mind
Misty water-colored memories
Of the way we were. (more…)

<> is programmer talk for not equal. As a programmer, you deal in absolutes. Computers are designed to function in such a manner. At the limit tables I am frequenting, the decision tree is far more obscure. I try to avoid getting into the oxymoron argument in this one. (more…)

God we are smart. If we aren’t, well, a book or two will get us there. We learn all about implied odds and post oak bets and the check raise. We see ourselves as level 2 or level 3 thinkers – and maybe we are. (more…)

I don’t normally post hand histories. This one doesn’t even call for a lot of comments. But, it was finally my turn. I’m more often the poor bastard with Kings full. (more…)

I have moved my stud play over to PokerStars. It is being much kinder to me than FullTilt. I am – knock on wood – booking good session after session on Stars. The last one was a double up taking down 23 big blinds. (more…)

I usually am pretty even keel in my play. I get the beats and occasionally give em. I try to recognize all the aspects of play. (more…)

It’s Friday morning as I write this. I played some Stud on all three of my regular sites – FullTilt, PokerStars and Bodog. Had great sessions on all three. More than double up on Tilt and had 16 BB’s to the good on the other two. (more…)

A lot of hands. A fair amount of rake. And nothing to show for it. (more…)

I again played a bit on two .50-1 tables and managed 11 BB off one but left almost 5 on the second table that broke up with me still looking for a profit. I’m ‘playing up’ to try to clear a last $19’s before the end of the month wipes out the remaining bonus. (more…)

It been a while since I tried to do a Stud article. In that time I’ve played it most days and usually several sessions. I can’t really figure out if I’m doing better or worse. I’m trying a lot of different things. I’ve seen a lot of variance that doesn’t really seem part of my varying my game. Or at least it doesn’t nearly account for the variance. (more…)