Goal Setting – professional and personal
Image by pixelposition via Flickr With all the reading that I have done, I think it is time to do some goal setting – personal and professional so I will start by listing my goals for April. Professional: Work 20/25 hours playing poker weekly. Document each type of game and session with a summary of [...]
These are a few of my favorite things – Poker Books
My last couple of posts have been about Poker Books. I currently own 30 or more of these books and have a shopping list for at least 12 more that I would like to own and read. I have read each of these books at least once and have gone back to some of them [...]
Review: World Poker Tour: Making the Final Table – Erick Lindgren
In my quest for self-improvement in tournament poker, I read the book “World Poker Tour(TM): Making the Final Table“. Erick Lindgren took me through all the steps of getting to a World Poker Tour event. He explained that you can gain entry to the events by buying into it directly for $10,000 to $25,000 or [...]
Playing with a wild man at Limit Hold Em
Image by brtsergio via Flickr Last Wednesday night, I was playing poker, Limit Texas Hold ‘Em, online at a $1/2 table. I started off playing shorthanded, actually, one on one or heads up until the table attracted more players. I was more than holding my own when we were joined by a couple more players. [...]
Review: Caro’s Fundamental Secrets of Winning Poker.
I have just recently purchased and read Caro’s Fundamental Secrets of Winning Poker written by Mike Caro, the “Mad Genius of Poker”. The book contained only 158 pages but there was a lot of meat to be gleaned for both the amateur and the professional poker player. Mike’s writing style is interesting in that he [...]
Seeking a level playing ground
Image by waffler via Flickr Lately I have been playing various styles of poker at different sites and trying to find my level at those sites and games. I have been playing Limit Hold ‘Em, No Limit Hold ‘Em and 2-7 Triple Draw. I have been playing in the .10/.20 games mostly for 2-7 triple [...]
Following @realAnnieDuke on Twitter and Railing AnnieDuke on UltimateBet.Com
Image via Wikipedia In between blogging and playing poker, I assist my wife, Diane, with setting up and selling wire sculptured gifts and jewelry she creates for sale at Arts and Craft shows and on line at WWW.Brogan-Arts.Com. I also receive and send tweets on my cell phone while at these shows as there are [...]
No Patience – leads to a bad finish!
Image by bananeman via Flickr Last night I finished 24th out of 25 players in the TPT: Tilt Event #11, sponsored by the TwitterPokerTour. After having two first place finishes in my previous two tourney events, this was not a good showing. This happened with my poker backer right beside me to watch my lack [...]
Limit Stud High/Low at the Cowboy Poker League Tourney
Image via Wikipedia Last night I played in a Seven Card Stud High/Low Poker tourney being hosted by the Cowboy’s Poker League played on FullTiltPoker. Scott (twitter name is ffcowboy76) and Jeremy (twitter name is IBGPN) are the hosts and contact persons. Tweet or follow them on their exploits as well as follow their league [...]
Strange times at online cash games – maybe not so strange?
Image by brtsergio via Flickr Recently, I have been increasing my online cash game play of Texas Hold Em Limit and No Limit Games at low stakes of .25/.50 blinds while preparing myself for the task of playing up to 4/5 hours per day of poker. During this time, I have started to notice that [...]
