AKQJ10's Poker Blog

Ahhhh, if we knew the answer to this question, all the sharks would migrate over to those games, right?   And so that implies that the market may well be pretty efficient, where just enough sharks are in each game to feed on the number of fish, and so me moving to one game or another [...]

Poker thought of the day/month/whatever: The most underrated absolutely essential poker skill, even more underrated than its parent game selection, is game evaluation.   If you can’t tell whether you’re in a good game, irrespective of results, you can’t win in the long run.
So, it feels like a good time to take stock of what’s working [...]

I just wrote up this summary in an email to a friend and realized I may as well post it verbatim instead of hemming and hawwing and waiting to write this up more verbosely.
I stopped running good at NLHE and started running good at $4/8 limit, so my historical winrate was $10/hour for both.   [...]

It’s a peculiar property of poker that I can leave the Gold Strike about $550 richer than when I started today and still feel like I was a colossal failure.   It’s an even worse property of NLHE that I feel this way as the result of one hand.
First of all, you should know that my [...]

My idea is to post one hand a day here as I’m going back and reviewing ICM decisions that I wasn’t sure about. However, the problem is going to be chosing one hand each day as “the one”, in part because I’m not sure that the specific holes in my knowledge are all [...]

As a prelude, and to repeat my plea, I would LOVE your feedback on whether the automated Twitter Tools posts are worth leaving up here or not.  I figured they make the blog more interesting than me neglecting to write anything for weeks at a time, but on the other hand it could be really [...]

Similar to last week’s, but I want to increase the share of $20+2s.   I’ll set aside the 2-table S&Gs for the time being since I have enough else going on, although I suspect multi-table S&Gs are even more profitable than ST. This week I discovered the super turbos, which are essentially a compressed tournament [...]

Now that I’m grinding online sit-and-gos pretty seriously, it takes on some aspects of a job: I need to make sure I get in enough games, which I’m not yet doing really well, and take on a level of risk that fits with my risk tolerance.   At the same time, I want to be a [...]