Decided at the last minute to get off my behind and go play tonite. And for the first time in awhile, I had a decent session. But it was not easy, and I had to really test my patience. I ended up playing for about 3 1/2 hours, but I won something like 3 or [...]
Well, I’d like to think so anyway. Like so few poker players, I have recorded my poker sessions in a small notebook. And I have transfered my notes into what I think is a pretty good program, the Poker Stats Tracker at cardplayer.com. I was updating my stats to include last night’s short session, and [...]
I’ve been playing lately the little Wednesday night tournament at Artichoke Joe’s. It’s a limit tournament that half hold ‘em and half Omaha/8, and usually gets 3 or 4 tables. Typically, the remaining players chop when it gets to the final table, the final 9, but last night it didn’t happen. In tournaments such as [...]
Got some catching up to do. A combination of not being all that motivated to write and the site being down for awhile. Lots of things to cover, but this will be about one thing: I won a tournament. But not just any tournament, mind you. A no-limit tournament. The vast majority of the tournaments [...]
Never again will I complain about the looseness of games in California. “No fold ‘em hold ‘em, it’s called, and it simply can’t hold a candle to the games, at least the games I’ve seen so for, here in Reno. I arrived Wednesday night much later than I had planned. I had an eye doctor [...]
Sadly, it looks like I’ll no longer be playing poker at the Oaks Card Club, where I made my start. No, it’s not going anywhere (at least, not as far as I know). But one of the few reasons for making the trip over there is no more. I have a soft spot in my [...]
I have learned much from poker books. They have improved my game tremendously. The first poker book I ever read gave me the best advice ever: keep track of your play. That way, you can never lie to yourself. But some games, perhaps it’s just the California-style no-fold-’em-hold-’em games, you almost have to throw out [...]
For the first time in months, I returned to the tournament table. I almost got blocked, but I decided to do it. I had stepped away from tournament play because, after a run of success, I was 0-fer all of last year. It was not a pretty sight; most times I didn’t even get within [...]
I know I have at least one reader. No, really. I got email a few weeks ago from someone who said she read the blog, was coming to the Bay Area for business, and wanted an opinion on poker rooms near where she’d be. Dunno if anything in my response helped, but I hope she [...]
After the up-and-down year that was 2007, I never expected to be playing as much as I have already in 2008. January is not yet even over and I’ve already played 14 times. Even better, 12 of those I’ve walked away with profits. And not just small profits either: Only one has been less than [...]