AKQJ10's Poker Blog

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.   [...]

Sometime soon I need to write about my change in emphasis to try to master 6-max NLHE cash games, and my coaching arrangement with my friend grindtofreedom that involves me receiving coaching in return for loans (and small donations, but mostly loans) through Kiva.  For now, though, I want to document an interesting hand I [...]

Tunica reset
For a 2-3 week period there I was out of the Tunica/Memphis area most of the time, not playing much and not terribly inspired about poker.   Obviously, I haven’t been posting on here during that period.
I’m excited about poker again, although in one sense this is necessity acting as the mother of invention.   I [...]

I’ve been really low-key about poker for the last week.  Over the Labor Day holiday I took some time off work and made three trips down to Tunica, but this weekend for unrelated personal reasons I spent several days away from Memphis.
Playing at Tunica last Sunday was pretty interesting, though.  It was packed not just [...]

I’m going to try doing a “hand history” a little bit differently.   Here’s a situation I was in last night, but I’m not going to state my hole cards at the start.   I’d like feedback on:
1. Is my general approach sound?
2. What range should I be looking to make this play with?
Situation
Horseshoe Tunica $2-5 No-limit [...]

I finished 5th, just in the money, taking $146 for my $35+15.    For fans of 2+2 tipping threads, I gave $3 — a little on the cheap side, I grant you, but $4 seemed silly so it was $3 or $5, and I figured the bigger winners would give more than 3-5% and make up [...]

Tunica’s best-kept poker secret has got to be all these money-added tournaments around town. Each room seems to do several per week. I haven’t been taking advantage of these, but today I’m going to take the plunge with a $35+15 seven-card stud tournament at the Grand, soon to be Harrah’s.
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