August, 2006 Archives

Ongoing evidence that Jamie Gold is a tool

August 23rd, 2006 · Posted in poker · 2 Comments

I concluded that he was a jerk based on an interview he did where he came across very badly in my opinion. You would think a Hollywood agent would have access to some top notch PR folks, but apparently he doesn’t. Or he isn’t listening to them.
You will remember that I mentioned that [...]

Maybe HORSE isn’t so easy, after all

August 21st, 2006 · Posted in poker · 0 Comments

I continue to see shockingly bad play in the Stud rotations.  Unfortunately, the great dice game in the sky is currently dictating that I lose to these bad players.  My personal favorite is he guy who started (88)79 in Razz who outdrew me when I started (42)A3.  I’ve run some twodimes analysis on things and [...]

Get on the HORSE and ride!

August 18th, 2006 · Posted in poker · 0 Comments

If you have a background in Stud games, you should run (not walk) to the Stars HORSE tables.  Probably because they are new, there are many people checking them out who are amazingly bad at many of the disciplines.  The first night that the tables were there I played 1/2 (which was as high as [...]

Random Brain Dump

August 16th, 2006 · Posted in poker · 4 Comments

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They made good on the bonus the other day and I wound up with $271 in exchange for wearing a hat.  I also got to drop “I have to go meet with Lori Negreanu” into casual conversation about 20 times, so it worked out as an extremely +EV move for me.  [...]

ITH Convention Trip Report

August 15th, 2006 · Posted in poker · 2 Comments

My real life has become impossibly complex in the last few weeks and I had to cut back the travel schedule for the ITH convention to the shortest trip possible. I wound up flying out on Wednesday after work and back on Sunday. My office scheduled a huge presentation for Wednesday morning which [...]

Vegas bound!

August 9th, 2006 · Posted in Uncategorized · 0 Comments

I’m flying out to Vegas tonight for the ITH convention!  Updates are hereby cancelled.

Various Daniel Negreanu thoughts

August 7th, 2006 · Posted in poker · 2 Comments

Like most of you, I primarily know Daniel from television.  I’ve always thought highly of him based on what you see.  He seems to have an uncanny instinct for reading other players and challenging them with his unorthodox style of play.  Although, thanks in some part to his own success, his style of playing a [...]

Better than flopping a set

August 1st, 2006 · Posted in poker · 0 Comments

I’ve been playing a lot of Stud-8 lately. I cut my poker teeth on 7 card stud, so I was already fairly familiar with the game as a poker standard. It is still probably one of the best live games played, because player reading is so important and relatively easy to do if [...]