Beware the “isolation play”, it can backfire if not executed properly…
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In Texas No Limit Hold ‘Em the “isolation play” can be used in an attempt to get all other players to fold so that you are just heads up with one opponent. When you think or know that someone has raised with a worse hand than yours and you want to [...]
Texas Hold ‘Em – the game that takes a minute to learn and a lifetime to master!
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The title of this post says it all. Truer words were never spoken. I have spent the last five years playing Texas Hold ‘Em and I still have not mastered all of the idiosyncrasies of the game.
The most difficult part of the game for me has been to tell when I have the [...]
Aces cracked, stacked again!
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Last night I went back to playing No Limit Hold ‘Em cash games at DoylesRoom.com, (I am now an affiliate member of Doyle’s Room) at the .25/.50 cash tables. I bought in for my usual amount of $30 and waited until my turn as the big blind, BB, before playing. [...]
Pocket Aces in a cash game – there are many blogs talking about them!
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It turns out that the discussion about how to play pocket Aces in a cash game is a very common one and a well discussed topic. I used Google Search and turned up over 43,00o hits on the topic. I have since read over a dozen of them and have digested [...]
Cracked Aces post drew some very good comments – thank you!
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My last post was about having my pocket Aces beaten at the river when my opponent made three of a kind. Right up to the turn, I was in the lead with the un-improved pocket Aces.
Three of the four comments were positive. Some suggested that perhaps raising all-in earlier would have [...]
Aces cracked on my first hand of the session!
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Last night I decided to play for a couple of hours at a cash game at DoylesRoom.Com at the .25/.50 No Limit Hold ‘Em tables. The average buy-in is $50, while some bring $100 and others $10. I bought in at $30.
The advantage of buying in as a small or medium [...]
The usual suspects at the cash game table!
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After taking a week off from online poker and from blogging, I decided I was ready to go back to the cash games.
Lately, when ever I play at DoylesRoom.com, I study the table statistics prior to choosing which table I want to play at. I look for the tables with the highest average [...]
Being on personal tilt – how that affects you!
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Wednesday, an indirect personal interaction took place that left me on emotional tilt for the last few days. Initially after it happened, I tried to play in a cash game but did not have the ability to focus on the game. I was unable to play my game in the tempo and manner [...]
December 1st cash game recap
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I started out December 1st on DoylesRoom at just $62 shy of my ending goal for December. I was playing in a .25/.50 cash game and had bought in for $30. By the twenty-seventh hand my starting stack was down to $22 due to hands that would not hold up. [...]
I play in fast tournments – and some are faster than others
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I have just completed a book about tournament poker that has turned my thinking upside down about how I should play.
The book, The Poker Tournament Formula by Arnold Snyder, stated that the type of tourneys with levels increasing in 5, 10, 15, 20 or 30 minute increments are considered to be “fast tournaments” [...]
