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 [...]
Sorry for the lack of posts lately. Between spending some time with my family and generally getting distracted by the NCAA basketball tournament, my playing volume was pretty low the last couple of weeks. The last few days I’ve been trying to get back to normal, but frankly playing the right amount is [...]
I’ve started using aggregate daily volume as a simple shorthand to capture how much I’m playing. It’s not a perfect metric because I expect to have different ROIs at different games, but the idea is I can multiply a vague “average” ROI for the mix of games I’m playing times the daily volume to find [...]
Tags: $11+1 turbo, $20+2, double-or-nothing, gold strike, moving up, MTT, staking, triple drawSimilar 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 [...]
Tags: $11 regular, $12 turbo, $22 regular, $7.70 super turbo, ROI, S&G, SNG