Building confidence
On : --I’ve had some pretty nasty runs in poker for the past month and a half, from right about Christmas to now, and I know the only way to get out of a slump is to keep playing, I can’t keep getting beat…
Month: January 2006
Popping the Bubble
On : --Oftentimes the slowest and most grueling part of any tournament is the money bubble, where the next person out gets no money. The average Joe tightens up and plays very few hands, just trying not to be the guy who goes out…
Leading into the raiser
On : --All forms of poker involve ego, and the bigger the game the bigger the egos you’ll run into and this applies whether you play live or online at the big sites like pokerstars.co.uk . Big egos can generate a lot of respect…
Poker in casinos
On : --Last weekend I took a trip up to Windsor, Canada, right across the border from Detroit, to play some poker and have a good time. We got there around 11pm the first night and played poker until we were pretty delerious at…
Weekend trip
On : --Sorry for not posting the last two days, my roommates and I traveled up to Windsor, Canada to visit the casino try out some poker and whatnot. The room in total was up money, but I wasn’t so fortunate, haha. We played…
Busted.
On : --Tonight was my roommates’ and my tournament here in our dorm. It’s a $10 + $5 rebuy + 1 $5 addon, and 37 people showed up to play, fishing over $670 between all of them. I bought in for the initial $10…
The downside of being sneaky
On : --Earlier today I was doing well in a $20+2 pot limit holdem tournament. With 25 players left, 18 being paid, I was in 4th place, and then I misstepped. In my last two tournaments where I bubbled close to the money it…