I used to pride myself on not tilting. Of course in those days, my primary game was the Foxwoods $2/4 or $4/8 limit hold’em, and not tilting meant not despairing to the point that I started playing Q9 offsuit in middle position or 63 suited on the button. I had confidence that if I could [...]
Not even a 1-outer or anything, just a healthy 1.5 outer (6 gives me the low half), but I love this example because it shows the level of play you can expect in an $11 LO8 tourney.
I tried to convert this at thehandconverter.com and do my usual HH tweet, but it didn’t work, so [...]
First of all, I had broken my Twitter updates when moving servers (really, it was just a matter of putting the Twitter Tools plug-in in the right place on the new server), so I’m happy to report my Twitter twaddle is back.
Secondly, despite my musings about learning to play HU NLHE SNGs and maybe HU [...]
I’ve been thinking a lot about continuation betting (cbetting), when it’s appropriate and not in BBO8, when to fire the second barrel, etc. For now just a hand on the topic of two-barreling, another where I declined to cbet, and a couple of other miscellaneous ones. All results are available by clicking through [...]
My lack of posts or even Twitter in the last month is indicative of the love/hate relationship that I have with poker. I’m probably not alone here — when you run bad, this game is really brutal if you’re a competitive person, and I suspect everyone who takes it seriously is to some extent competitive [...]
So as you can infer from my last couple of posts, I’ve reached a bit of an epiphany about learning to play sit-and-gos. I still have no idea if my present mastery of the genre makes me a 1% or 3% or 5% or 0.1% “true” winner. But I’m pretty sure [...]
I’m determined enough to get better at the ICM quizzes that I did another set on the computer I have upstairs. The results were “Bad” (12/20) but what stood out in my worst miss was a situation I don’t recall thinking through before.
A8o, button (+1.3% push)
Stacks: 8600, 1500, 1400, 8500
Call: 100%, 95%
I thought [...]
When I woke up on March 18, my observed ROI for 9-player sit-and-gos was 10.1% over 1485 games. I had moved myself up to $22 and $24 games, and I was pretty sure 10% wasn’t maintainable. But even cashing out 5% of my volume, I figured I could meet most of my monthly [...]
I’ll come back and put commentary and maybe label these to make things a little easier. I just wanted to get these up here because I’d been meaning to go back and review some of my hands from my daily logs to make sure I’m actually getting better day to day.
Hand #1
Full Tilt Poker $11 [...]
One focus this week is on building up volume. To that end, I’m going to make an attempt each day to 8-table, even though for starters I may do it at lower stakes such as $6+0.50 turbos.
Another change is to start getting comfortable with $22+2 turbos. Up to this point I’ve made a [...]
