Not really playing within my bankroll
Ok. So I am playing short stacked. I have about $150 on Full Tilt Poker, an affiliate. Playing the .02/.05 No Limit Cash games gives me about 30 buy-ins, which is a far cry from the 100 buy-ins I should have. I will continue to try growing my bankroll one session at a time. I [...]
A Diamond ended up costing me a third of my buy-in!
Image by qthomasbower via Flickr I was playing No Limit Hold ‘Em at Full Rush Poker. I bought into a low level table where the blinds were .05/.10 and my buy-in was $5.00. The table play was a little wild. There was one high stacked player with over $20.00 so he must have been hitting [...]
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 [...]
We all Donk sometimes – at least I did
Image via Wikipedia Last night was the final game of Season 3 for the Twitter Poker Tour – Euopean edition which started at 2pm ET or 7pm BST hosted by the Twitter Poker Tour and played onFullTilt poker. There were 13 entrants for the final game. After the first hour of play, I had gained [...]
A guest post – from comments made by Jack – updated 5/20/09
Image via Wikipedia This post has been updated with additional comments from Jack – See below: On May 13th, I wrote a post titled, “How not to play pocket Aces and why do I hear chips clinking when I am not in a hand?” which was about how I played, or rather, misplayed a pair [...]
How not to play pocket Aces and why do I hear chips clinking when I am not in a hand?
Image by Don Nunn via Flickr During the last seven days or so I have been playing the micro limits while trying to build a bankroll from $10 to $250 as part of a challenge – see my previous post, “Update on the race to $250 and other thoughts” for more details. Yesteday I shared [...]
Proper rest is another tool in the poker player tool kit. Tiredness is a drawback.
Image by kool_skatkat via Flickr Last night was the third event of Season Three at the Twitter Poker Tour. A Texas Hold ‘Em No Limit Tourney was played starting at 9 pm EST. Due to prior commitments to our home based business, Brogan-Arts.Com, I was also unable to play in Event 3 of the TPT [...]
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 [...]
Thoughts about having AK as a hand
Throughout the last three years, I have seen many different players having AK as their starting hand and have been amazed at how some people value and play them. Otherwise known as “big slick”, AK are perhaps the two most misplayed cards that anyone can get. In some of the lower buy-in Texas Holdem tourneys, [...]
Playing a hand too strongly with a bad kicker … costly ….
Image via Wikipedia Definition: Kicker – A kicker, also called a side card, is a card in a poker hand that does not itself take part in determining the rank of the hand, but that may be used to break ties between hands of the same rank Last night at the Twitter Poker Tour tourney, [...]
