Without cards – poker skills may not be enough
Image by Lewis Walsh via Flickr Knowing how to raise, check-raise, value bet, continuation bet, all in raise may not be enough if you don’t catch cards to back up your play. Last night I played “No Limit Hold ‘Em on the Twitter Poker Tour played on Full Tilt poker. I was a late registrant [...]
Guest Post – using comments by Paul Ellis of Pablosplace.com
Image by dno1967 via Flickr On July 14, I wrote a post about “When to Move to the Next Level”. My twitter poker tour friend, Paul Ellis AKA @CoolWhipFlea of PablosPlace.com wrote a great comment. Here it is in its entirety. Thank you Paul. ————————————– ……. I’ve been thinking about this a lot lately. Remember [...]
Dads Poker Blog has been just listed on Poker.Alltop.com
Image via Wikipedia I am excited to announce that my blog has been selected for inclusion on Poker.Alltop.Com. Thank you Alltop!
Online note taking – some sites give you more.
Image by Austin Kleon via Flickr All of the online poker sites that I play allow note taking on specific players. That helps me as I play on different sites and I don’t always remember how my opponent played the last time we met. Not so much for the #TPT players as we have played [...]
When to move to the next level
Image via Wikipedia Many of the books I have read have some advice about when to move to the next level. While some of this advice varies, most of them say you should be winning at the level you are currently playing. While bankroll should be a consideration, many of these poker pros/authors say you [...]
A lifetime of poker – and learning about it.
Image by ruminatrix via Flickr I have been learning more about playing poker in the last few years than I have since I first learned to play five card draw over 40 years ago. Some of the things that I learned then from experience still ring true. My uncle Roland and Auntie Bea were fierce [...]
Can’t we all just get along?
Image by marymuses via Flickr I play a lot of cash and sit and go’s and tourneys and I am seeing a trend that is starting to get quite annoying and downright disrespectful. That is the practice of criticizing the playing of other player’s. It is starting to affect other people not directly involved in [...]
How to test out poker concepts
Image by cRckls via Flickr I have been doing a lot of reading lately in an effort to improve my poker playing at the cash ring games online. One of the ways I found that I could test out these concepts was to play at the very low micro levels – .02/.04 and .05/.10. While [...]
Thoughts on finding an online pokersite to play.
Image by Ryan Harvey via Flickr When I look online to find a poker site to play on, I have found at least eight that allow US players. These are the ones that I have signed up with over the last three years. FulltiltPoker PokerStars DoylesRoom UltimateBet AbsolutePoker CarbonPoker PokerHost TruePoker Each of these sites [...]
Signs that tell you that your hand might not win
Image by nathanialfreitas via Flickr I play limit hold ‘em cash games at various sites online and on occasion I get what I think is a good hand only to find it is not the best hand. Yesterday for example I was dealt a pair of pocket sixes in the big blind. There were three [...]
