The Shark Tank

I’m not sure how to characterize the first month of league play.  I guess I’ve done respectably — I’m 7th in overall points, but I haven’t claimed a seat in the big WSOP freeroll, which is clearly a major goal.
My earn rate is well down compared against limit ring play, but I’ve been having a [...]

I went deep in the Abosolute league freeroll last night. It is the best freeroll to do well in because there are usually 150 or so runners. I experimented with a number of different playing styles that I would normally never use and they worked really well (until they didn’t!)
Early on, I tried [...]

I’ve been getting pummelled at the ITH leagues lately.  I bounced in 31st in the VIP league today.  I got in pretty good with a pair against AK and Ax, so I had 42% equity pre-flop.  My equity fell somewhat when a King flopped.  Unlike the league last week where Suited won and eased the [...]

In my brief tourney career, I’ve managed to get away from QQ only once when it was an overpair. In that case, I raised and there was a big re-raise that pot commited the player and a push. I knew both of the players to be quite tight and I was pretty sure [...]

First of all, Akismet is the coolest thing ever. It is a comment spam eating plug-in for WordPress and it is absolutely phenominal. So far, not one spam has made it through to my blog and not one real comment has been flagged as spam. I think it has eaten 97 spam [...]

The VIP league held on Sundays has the most points up for grabs of any of the events, so it is a particularly valuable one to do well in. I made some really good plays early today and caught some cards, but I think I blew up at the final table to some degree. [...]

I’ve been spending way too much time playing the new ITH league events. The pot of gold at the end of the rainbow is an entry to the WSOP main event or an entry to a minor event. I suspect that there are much easier paths to that entry, but I’m not always [...]

I was right that going deep in the VIP event would catapult me up the rankings. Unfortunately, I didn’t do that. Suited, on the other hand, followed my plan to a T. She finished 6th and is not 6th in the overall rankings. She plays a very solid, tight game that [...]

I’ve been thinking so hard about how to handle the very different play that I saw at the WPT that I think I adjusted in unhelpful ways whilst playing the ITH events. Calling 150 chips raises with 87s when you have 10,000 chips is a reasonable approach. Calling 150 chip raises when you [...]

Work has become a bit more intense and I’ve been dealing with a lot of little things.  I played in a $500 satellite where I lost with AQ against AK on an Ace-high board, but I didn’t have enough chips to wait for a better spot.  I decided that buying directly into the main event [...]