A Diamond ended up costing me a third of my buy-in!
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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 good [...]
Can’t we all just get along?
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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 the [...]
We all Donk sometimes – at least I did
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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 the lead [...]
A guest post – from comments made by Jack – updated 5/20/09
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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 of pocket [...]
How not to play pocket Aces and why do I hear chips clinking when I am not in a hand?
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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 my thoughts [...]
Proper rest is another tool in the poker player tool kit. Tiredness is a drawback.
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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 Europe [...]
No Patience – leads to a bad finish!
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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 of [...]
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 ….
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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, I managed [...]
Steve takes a bad beat by Doyle Brunson (actually it was by Doyle’s Room and not Doyle directly)
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Doyles Poker Room used to be a favorite site of mine back about three years ago until they stopped letting US players on their site. Last year I found out that they were accepting US players again. I signed up again, deposited some money and starting playing. I later found out that some [...]
