Decision making – the key to good poker
Image by waffler via Flickr I have been playing various forms of poker lately: Texas Hold ‘Em, Omaha, Omaha High/Low, Seven Card Stud, Seven Card Stud High Low, 2-7 Triple Draw and RAZZ. All of these games are somewhat similar even though the rules for each game might contain some differences; they all require decision [...]
Twitter Poker Tour Season Three starts tonight at 9:00 EDT
Tonight at 9 pm EDT is the Twitter Poker Tour Season 3 Event #1 on FullTilt. This is the start of the new season and the game starts at 9 pm EDT. Hope to see you there!
Recap of the CPL for last night and other random poker thoughts
Image via Wikipedia I finished fourth last night at the Cowboy Poker League Tourney. Ordinarily, that is not too bad a finish, but last night there were only four players in the tourney.We were playing Seven Card Stud Poker High/Low. Originally, the games were supposed to be just Seven Card Stud, played High only, but [...]
Tonight at the Cowboy Poker League – Pot Limit Stud High
Image via Wikipedia Tonight’s Pot Limit Seven Card Stud High tourney is being hosted by the Cowboy’s Poker League played on FullTiltPoker at 9:00 pm EDT. You have plenty of time to visit the blog and join up. Scott (twitter name is ffcowboy76) and Jeremy (twitter name is IBGPN) are the hosts and contact persons. [...]
Cash Games at PS and FTP
Image via Wikipedia Sunday, I started playing Limit Hold ‘Em at PokerStars and No Limit Hold ‘Em on FullTiltPoker. I have been wanting to do that for some time now. I played at PokerStars on the $1/$2f tables for about two hours and was dealt 169 hands. I ended up in the plus with $31.94 [...]
Season 2 of the Twitter Poker Tour closes with TPT:Stars Event #12
Image by blueathena7 via Flickr Season 2 of the Twitter Poker Tour closed with the TPT:Stars Event #12. The game we played was Texas Hold ‘Em No Limit Poker. The session started promptly at 9:00 pm with the scoreboard leader ship on the line for the top five challengers. A snapshot of the leader board [...]
I ended up my RAZZ SCOOP tourney at 1,323th place out of 2,945 on PokerStars
Image via Wikipedia My finish last night at about half way in the pack was disappointing as compared to the previous two losses at the PokerStars SCOOP. I lost in better positions at those. Not sure if that was a positive thing? Hmm. Although RAZZ is similar to Seven Card Stud Poker, I was not [...]
Finished 172nd place out of 704 places at Limit Stud High/Low on PokerStars
Image by techne via Flickr I tried my luck last night at the SCOOP Limit Stud High/Low Poker Tourney being held at PokerStars. It was quite exciting. During the first three hours of play I would be in the top 10 then I would be in the 100-199 spots. Then I would jump up into [...]
I Finished 400th at PokerStars Tournament #200904091, Limit Triple Draw 2-7 Lowball
Image by aboutmattlaw via Flickr The Limit Triple Draw 2-7 Lowball tourney started at 2:30 pm EDT with 1801 players. Each player was given 5,000 in chips to start. This was my first ever 2-7 Lowball tourney and while I had high hopes, the fact is that I had only been playing this game for [...]
Two tourneys scheduled for this week – both different
Image via Wikipedia My tourney goals for this week are to finish in the top positions in No Limit Hold ‘Em sponsored by the Twitter Poker Tour, TPT:Stars Event #12, Thursday, Apr 9, 2009 at 7:00pm and 2-7 Triple Draw being played this afternoon at 2:30 opm at PokerStars as part of their SCOOP 2009, [...]
