PokerStars 25th Billion Hand Countdown
Image via Wikipedia It was a long and sleepless night as I played at PokerStars the last two days. I watched bonuses being handed out to players at tables in which the hand number being dealt to them ended in 000,000. Every even million numbered hand was given a special bonus ranging from $350 to [...]
Powerplay versus Power Loss – Some thoughts
Image via Wikipedia The weekly Twitter Poker Tour Tournament is played every Thursday Night at 9 PM Eastern Time on either the FullTiltPoker or the PokerStars site online. I was looking forward to this evenings tourney. I had already pre-registered days before. But this evening turned out to be a little different than the one [...]
Small Stakes Hold’em by Ed Miller, David Sklansky, Mason Malmuth – A review
Image via Wikipedia I started playing Texas Holdem online about three years ago. I think that my interest in the game took hold as the result of watching the “World Poker Tour” TV shows on the Travel Channel. I would be mesmerized for hours watching the likes of Doyle Brunson, Phil Ivy, Gus Hansen, David [...]
Preliminary Review – PokerTracker3
Image by Manassas Cakery via Flickr I have downloaded and installed a 60 day free trial version of Poker Tracker 3 software. At first glance, this appears to offer me the ability to have my “cake” and eat it too. This program is advertised as being able to do many things for the fledgling pro [...]
Tournaments versus Cash Games? Which is best for you?
Image by qousqous via Flickr Poker Tournaments versus Poker Cash Games. This question usually brings up some interesting answers. Some of this boils down to personal likes and dislikes. For me it comes down to costs versus benefits. I prefer cash games because I can control my destiny and profitability. I don’t have to take [...]
Lessons learned, Lessons to Apply
Image by love not fear via Flickr Ever since I decided that this was the year to try my hand at becoming a professional poker player and playing up to 20 hours a week either online or at a casino or poker room, I knew that the journey was not going to be easy. I [...]
Omaha High/Low Explained
Image via Wikipedia Omaha Poker High/Low is like Texas Holdem except that each player gets four cards for his hand as his hole cards. In Texas Holdem the player gets only two hole cards. Unlike Holdem, the player must use two cards from his hand with three cards from the five common cards to make [...]
Steve takes a bad beat by Doyle Brunson (actually it was by Doyle’s Room and not Doyle directly)
Image via Wikipedia Doyles Poker Room used to be a favorite site of mine back about three years ago until they stopped letting US players on their site. Last year I found out that they were accepting US players again. I signed up again, deposited some money and starting playing. I later found out that [...]
Quick thinking can be costly
Image via Wikipedia Quick thinking can be costly especially when playing No-Limit Omaha High/Low Poker. I was involved in a game with 9 other players. This was a fairly active group with players going all-in many times during the session. As long as you did not make a single mistake and thought things out, you [...]
Limit, Pot Limit, No Limit Betting in Texas Holdem
Image via Wikipedia Limit, Pot Limit and No Limit betting are quite different from each other. Each type of “betting limits” can dictate how you play your hands in Texas Holdem. For all of the following examples, I will use a small blind amount of $1 and big blind amount of $2 and a table [...]
