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Making Laydowns?
One of the things I don't think I have been that good at over my time playing poker, and where I still need some help, is knowing when to fold. I had a couple of hands recently where a little voice was...
View ArticleA Year Blogging - looking back
I started this blog 1 year ago, and so I thought I would look back at both the content of my posts and how they evolved, whether I think I have actually improved and similar stuff.Using money I had won...
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A guide to beating Micro and small stakes? Maybe.....
Looking back over the past year, here are a few things I have learned about micro cash games. Don’t apply this to your average donkament poker unless you play really deep (and why play them anyway?) as...
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Looking forward...2010 and 2009 graph
One of my first posts here shows what my aims for 2009 were. I think I managed to just about get there.I looked into the PokerstarsVPP thing, but in order to take advantage of it fully, you need to...
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Charitable Poker
It never fails to surprise me when I see some of the card combos people are prepared to play online, especially when you realise it's all for real money. I just wonder how some of these droolers...
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suckout? Me? I don't think so
I have registered to play in the PokerStars World Blogger Championship of Online Poker! The WBCOOP is a free online Poker tournament open to all Bloggers, so register on WBCOOP to play.Registration...
View ArticleMoving down when running bad? Not me….
Bankroll management is the key to winning in the long run in poker. Strategy comes a close second. Edges are so slim nowadays that if you get your buy in level wrong, you can go broke and it can be...
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Playing AK, or is that Ace-King?
One of the things that never ceases to amaze me is just how unsure people seem to be when playing AK. At 6max, players seem positively desperate to get all their money in with it. I don’t get it.In...
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Don't play if you can't pull the trigger
As you may have gathered I haven’t posted in a while. The reason for that is 2 fold. First because I haven’t had much of interest to say, but also because I haven’t had much time to play poker.As a...
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Full tilt changing player types
I think one of the changes as a result of full tilts responding to the 20bb shortstacker, by increasing the buy in, has been the slight increase of 100bb reg type players. This could be fixed limit...
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Reconstructing my game, and "calling to re-evaluate"
These last few weeks I have not wanted to grind at poker. I have hardly played at all. One of my resolutions as I went into the new year was to try to re-structure some things (read leaks) in my game...
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Forthcoming book review and…. Don’t Tilt because I’m coming after you if you do…
First off, I am just finishing off the latest from Aaron Davis, "The Poker Blueprint" which is a rare book in that it includes thoughts about microstakesonline cash poker, and I will post shortly my...
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Formula @6max = Being Humble!
I am not sure if there is an easy formula for beating the low stakes online game, but it is true there is a lot to be made if you follow one path in particular. If we can avoid Fancy Play Syndrome, and...
View ArticleThe Poker Blueprint review
Before I start, I should say, I don’t know anything much about the either of the authors of The Poker BluePrint. Aaron Davies asked me to review the book through this blog. I have never studied the...
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Bet your strong hands or lose money
One of the very first books I read when I started out in poker suggested that everyone plays quads optimally, and there wasn't much point in talking about it therefore. I don’t think I agree.Like all...
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Table bullies, maths and baby pairs
I normally just up-sticks and find another table when I have a non-spewy aggro donk (meaning, most likely one of the better 100nl players at 6max) seated on my left, but when there's some bad players...
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This year's poker, and is it getting harder?
This is normally the time to be publishing my thoughts on my years poker, and putting up a nice graph. This is where I was last year, see here. I had really high ambitions this time last year for a...
View ArticlePokerstars Microstakes
I transferred all my money off Pokerstars 18 months ago after a failed attempt at full ring mass tabling. Out of sheer boredom one evening before going to bed I had a look at the site and checked out...
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Thoughts on bluffing and "history"
You have to bluff.If you don't, its likely you can only be a break even player at the tables, unless you are consistently lucky, which I am not. Bluffing works best when you play deep stacked. 100bb...
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Folding KK Pre flop
Our poker education is never ending, but I know there are many who think folding Kings pre is a complete joke.At 6max it's harder to ever fold 1oobb deep (200+bb deep it's a different story), although...
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