Winning
$63,015 is my current play chip balance at FTP. I am still awaiting their transfer back to me of my real cash balance with them since “BlackFriday“. But that is another story. I am still allowed to play poker at FTP, but by using play chips that are free. I am also allowed to use [...]
Online Poker is just about gone for US based players
No surprise if you are an online poker player, but our options of playing online have effectively been taken away from us. The UIGEA law enacted in 2006 made it illegal for banks and financial institutions to transfer funds to and from online Poker sites. On April 15, 2011, the DOJ used that law and stopped all [...]
Playing within my bankroll
I am currently on a new poker quest. It may sound the same as some of my prior goals, but this one is a little different. I am trying to play online based on my bankroll at the sites I am playing. Ideally, I should have a bankroll on a poker site with equivalent to [...]
… follow-up to “I am a losing poker player!” post!
Image via Wikipedia As I mentioned in my last post, I have finally decided that I am not having a run of bad luck which is causing me to lose at playing poker. It is how I play that causes me to lose. It is when I fail to extract extra value for my good [...]
The evidence is in – I am a losing poker player!
Image by lucy and her dent via Flickr This does not come as any surprise to me as I am making re-deposits to my online sites each year when I finally run my balance with a site down to $10.00 or less. There is only one site in the last three years that I actually [...]
Beware the “isolation play”, it can backfire if not executed properly…
Image by aplumb via Flickr 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 [...]
Pocket Aces in a cash game – there are many blogs talking about them!
Image by thun via Flickr 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 [...]
Being on personal tilt – how that affects you!
Image via Wikipedia 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 [...]
December poker goals
m n Image via Wikipedia I believe that goal setting should be done using attainable goals. But I don’t mean that I should set the level of my goals too low, making it easy to obtain them. It has taken me over three months to recoup my early losses at DoylesRoom.com. I was playing Limit [...]
Jacks set me back – oops….
Image by _mandrew_ via Flickr I like to think that I have a lot of patience and discipline at the tables. In playing No Limit Cash games, I usually wait for good hands. I even fold A 10, KQ, KJ when I am first to bet, UTG, under the gun or UTG+1. In middle position [...]
