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 [...]
Limit, Pot Limit, No Limit Betting in Texas Holdem
Image via Wikipedia Limit, Pot Limit and No Limit betting are quite different from each other. Each type of “betting limits” can dictate how you play your hands in Texas Holdem. For all of the following examples, I will use a small blind amount of $1 and big blind amount of $2 and a table [...]
Changing up your game.
Image via Wikipedia The idea for this post was taken from a comment made to one of my previous posts, when I was asked to explain more about “changing up your game”. I would do this by trying the following: Try stealing the blinds once in a while with a bet increase when playing a [...]
How much money do I need to play? – Bankroll management made simple (I hope)
Image by Philofoto via Flickr When deciding to play a game of poker, I always base my decision of what game levels to play based on my bankroll size. Your bankroll is the total amount of money that you have available to play poker. It includes the money that you have set aside strictly for [...]
Playing Winning Poker
Image by brtsergio via Flickr A recent post I read on another blog, “PokerBankRollBlog.Com” had an article that resonated with the type of playing I have been doing of late and it is based on the following thoughts by noted poker player, Phil Gordon, and an article that he wrote. The basics of the article are [...]
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 [...]
Security, User-names, Online Accounts, Checking and Savings Issues etc.
Image by mary hodder via Flickr An incident that occurred to an online poker playing member of a poker users group got me to thinking about security issues. It seems that this player has an account on FullTiltPoker.Com and when he attempted to log in, he got a message saying that there were six previous [...]
On the button – player position and what it means
Image via Wikipedia Your position relative to the other players is an import part of the Texas Holdem game to learn and understand. For the following explanation, I am going to use a card table that has ten players to illustrate my point (plus the diagram that I found also has ten players). For the [...]
Poker etiquette at the table
Image via Wikipedia Poker etiquette suggests that you don’t criticize someone for their poor play, especially if you are in a cash game. This advice applies to both online games as well as face to face games (I image that there is more risk being critical in person than online). There are a couple of [...]
