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 [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]

Well, it’s been way too long since I’ve posted hands, in part because just running bad had been sapping a lot of my enthusiasm.   I have more to say about this that I’ll put off until later; in brief, I don’t want this to become my repository of bad-beat stories, but I think there’s value [...]

My second hand discussion from yesterday is a bit more straightforward.   I build a big pot with pocket tens, flop an overpair, and face a tough decision.

Yesterday I played at least two hands that I thought are worthy of discussion here. The first one I thought I played well, albeit unconventionally, but I’m open to criticism that I’m just guilty of Fancy Play Syndrome.