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 tables – Part 2
Image via Wikipedia On my last post, I was discussing discipline at the tables and I was playing in an SNG (sit and go) game at PokerStars called “Double or Nothing”. The buy-in amount that I chose was $1 but the fee varied between .10 and .15 cents. It turned out that a “Turbo” table [...]
Limit Poker at the Seabrook Poker Room.
Image by love not fear via Flickr My beginning professional poker career playing in New Hampshire started with a whimper. I was playing Limit Poker at the Seabrook Poker Room in Seabrook NH. OK a loss. Now not a big loss as losses go, but, never the less, a loss. You know what they say [...]
Position and Starting Card Requirements
Image via Wikipedia Part of the reason that position matters is that the betting order can help to determine who stays in a hand and who folds a hand. Also, the type of betting will also play a factor in the betting action. In a “Limit” game, the amount of bets are in increments of [...]
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 [...]
Heading South while Going North
Image via Wikipedia They say that sometimes the adventure is in the journey and not the destination and there appears to be some truth to that. A little bit of background – my wife Diane and I went to Clearwater Florida last weekend to visit our friends from Revere, MA who winter in Florida. While [...]
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 [...]
Ways of learning how to play
Image by Vicious Bits via Flickr During the last three years, I have discovered that there are a lot of ways to learn how to play cards and the various games that are out there. I was once told by someone, perhaps a teacher, that there are only two kinds of knowledge: That which you [...]
Texas Holdem Explained
Image via Wikipedia The brief (all right – not so brief) explanation that follows is my understanding of how the game of Texas Holdem is structured. This is how I view the game as I play it. There is much more to the game then just how the cards are dealt and to me that [...]
Online Sit N Go Tournament Play results – lessons learned
Image via Wikipedia Last night I had a couple of spare hours and I wanted some poker action … so I choose to play in a few “Sit N Go” tournaments. I decided to play at low limit tourneys, .25 cent buy ins and $1.10 buy ins. All of the games I picked had 45 [...]
