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, [...]
Steve takes a bad beat by Doyle Brunson (actually it was by Doyle’s Room and not Doyle directly)
Image via Wikipedia 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 [...]
Quick thinking can be costly
Image via Wikipedia Quick thinking can be costly especially when playing No-Limit Omaha High/Low Poker. I was involved in a game with 9 other players. This was a fairly active group with players going all-in many times during the session. As long as you did not make a single mistake and thought things out, you [...]
Poker Chips – Online versus Live
Image via Wikipedia During the last three years, I have played hundreds of online games of poker and less than seven (7) face to face casino games. I am not counting the thousands of home games I have played with parents, friends and relatives since I was old enough to play. Besides, almost all of [...]
Reflections of a busy day
Image via Wikipedia Yesterday was a busy day for me. I had gotten up early to write my blog post entitled “Discipline at the tables – Part 2″. While typing it, I played some of the “Double or Nothing” games that I have come to enjoy. I was contemplating a full day ahead. There are [...]
Discipline at the poker table
Image via Wikipedia My previous post about my limt play at the Seabrook Poker Room got me to thinking about this topic. While thinking about it, I decided to play some simple tourneys that a twitter poker buddy. Deanna “Panndyra” Goodson, told me about. It is a single table tourney called “Double or Nothing”. The [...]
