I think I cracked the code, folks. I think I’ve reduced all of poker strategy to a single concept that, if adhered to, will turn any player into a long-term winner: Identify, embrace and learn [...]
I just looked at buying a quad-plex in Las Vegas so that Kat, Comrade Vape and I could form a little poker commune. We want to be within two miles of the office (the Strip) so that pretty much [...]
We often think of semi-bluffing as an attacking move. Plan A: I can get them to fold or Plan B: Suck out. A third reason is deception on other hands. Let me tell you about a hand I just played [...]
We have all heard the rule about “Only set mine if effective stacks are X times the size of your call.” I suspect we have all heard different versions of this where X varies from 10 [...]
I hate losing big pots, but if they encourage me to study a spot until I grok it, then that buy-in will not have died in vain. Let me start with saying, I screwed up this hand. I was seduced by [...]
I recently hit a nice milestone at my favorite card room, the Mirage in Las Vegas. It is not the only place I have played, but it is my favorite and most consistently profitable game. I love the [...]
The guys that had root access on poker servers so they could see the other player’s cards had an incredible advantage. But what if instead of being able to see the opponent’s hole [...]
First Order Approximations I have a degree in engineering. Early on, one of the professors said to us that “The professors are all lying to you. With each class, we lie to you less and [...]
She was sitting on a stack of $1500, and she would not stop raising or cold calling. It was the $1/$2 game at the Sands, versus one of the most aggressive opponents I had ever seen. She was 3 [...]
