Bad Beat Jackpots – are they worth it?
Image by Víctor Pérez via Flickr Last night I was playing a cash game – Limit Hold ‘Em – at Absolute Poker. I find that the tables at AP are rather loose. I actually saw a small stacked player, having less than $2.oo in his stack, raise and re-raise until all of his money was [...]
My ship barely got out of the harbor …
Image by Brooklyn Museum via Flickr My ship barely got out of the harbor yesterday. Doing some routine things like taking my wife for a doctor’s visit turned into an all day affair. (She is much better today, thank you). When the day was about done, I pulled back up to the docks and settled [...]
Inspiration – is sometimes just one click away
Image by ShashiBellamkonda via Flickr On Dads Poker Blog, I try to post once a day, usually on weekdays. I like to include in the post some of my thoughts, experiences and revelations learned about poker, either by playing or studying or watching. Some of what I write, I hope is either interesting, entertaining, instructive [...]
If dogs could talk ….
Image by roberthuffstutter via Flickr Okay, yesterday I said that it was time to experience poker again. But I was still in reading and studying mode and I could not get my poker mind working as Phil Ivey had suggested I should do in his Full Tilt Poker Tip. And now for the rest [...]
Phil Ivey says just be yourself …
Image by ralphunden via Flickr At 6:07 am this Saturday I got an email from Phil Ivey with the subject line “Phil Ivey – Don’t Read This Tip?”. And I did not read it … until 11:07 pm that night. Well … it really was not sent by Phil Ivey but by Full Tilt Poker [...]
Chasing bad draws – not a winning idea!
Image by robad0b via Flickr There are times, when one is playing poker, that a drawing hand is worth playing. The reasons for staying would be to win a large pot if you make your hand. The other reason that you stay in is that you have many outs to win. Say you have two [...]
Thoughts on how long to play at one setting…
Image via Wikipedia Recently I played 9 Sit n Go’s in one day. I played four in a row and then five in a row. Overall, I had cashed in six of the nine, winning once in first place, four times in second place and once in third place. I played each set without a [...]
Cash games or tournaments or both?
Image via Wikipedia Lately I have been having some discussions with other poker friends as to what type of poker games one should play in? Should a player concentrate on just cash games or play only in tournaments? Or should a player do both? Based on reading, talking and studying about the topic, it appears [...]
Nine SnG’s at UB –
Image by supersolice via Flickr Yesterday, I spent most of my down time playing on UltimateBet and watching “Poker after Dark” with my wife, Diane. On “PAD”, they had three young Internet players and Doyle Brunson, Gabe Kaplan and Eli Elezra at the table. We watched over five episodes while I played nine SnG’s. My [...]
More thoughts on bankroll management.
Image via Wikipedia I am still playing at the micro and low levels at the online tables. My live play is done at a poker room in Seabrook NH, close to where I live. There, I play in the $2/4 Limit Hold ‘Em tables. Many different people have many different ideas as to when to [...]
