AKQJ10's Poker Blog

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.   [...]

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 [...]

It’s been way too long since I’ve updated.    Eventually my hope is to make this blog more of an educational effort, including educational for me, via hand discussions, general theory discussions, etc.   But I also want to keep some of my poker friends who follow this via the RSS feed up to date on my [...]

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 [...]

This has very little with improving as a poker player, but I really enjoy tracking silly little patterns like this.   (For example, the first weekend of the NCAA basketball tournament, I’m always tracking nice tidy patterns like that no 3-seeds but two 4-seeds and two 5-seeds lost so far.)
Anyway, last weekend I played about 12 [...]

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 [...]

This was originally supposed to go on my general-purpose blog to update all those who want to track my whereabouts.   But my lovely Ruby on Rails-based blogging system is going haywire, so instead let’s update it here.   Sorry for the repetitive stuff.
Just summarizing, I’m not through with poker by any means, and plan to head [...]

I’m back in Huntsville for most of the week, and I’ll soon post my thoughts after my first week+day in Mississippi.   Also I still need to write up the first-day hand histories.
I’m told by my family that they were sitting in the Cracker Barrel the other day when my 2.5-year-old niece saw the huge checkerboard [...]

Yesterday, 8pm
I played in the wildest $1-3 no-limit game at the Horseshoe just an hour or so ago. The guy in Seat 9 straddled (posted a blind bet for $6) on probably half the hands. Then the well-dressed, obviously drunk guy in Seat 10 would attack most of those straddles, so [...]