Playing in a Pot Limit Omaha tourney at the Cowboy’s Poker League
Image via Wikipedia Last night I played in a Pot Limit Omaha (aka PLO) Poker tourney being hosted by the Cowboy’s Poker League and played on FulltiltPoker. This league is just starting up and needs members. But the ones they have currently are enthusiastic and dedicated. Based on their blog page, Scott (twitter name is [...]
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, [...]
Lessons learned, Lessons to Apply
Image by love not fear via Flickr Ever since I decided that this was the year to try my hand at becoming a professional poker player and playing up to 20 hours a week either online or at a casino or poker room, I knew that the journey was not going to be easy. I [...]
Omaha High/Low Explained
Image via Wikipedia Omaha Poker High/Low is like Texas Holdem except that each player gets four cards for his hand as his hole cards. In Texas Holdem the player gets only two hole cards. Unlike Holdem, the player must use two cards from his hand with three cards from the five common cards to make [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
