The Shark Tank

Tonight, the 30/60 game didn’t run most of the evening and then it was terrible once it did. The 15/30 ran short-handed for a while and then it collapsed. I made a few bucks before it did, but I was forced to play 10/20 for the most part. I’m pretty sure that [...]

None of the good games were running early last night, so I wandered over to play some full ring NL. I was doing quite well until I ran into this hand:
PokerStars No-Limit Hold’em, $4 BB (9 handed)
Button ($413.40)
SB ($404)
BB ($479)
UTG ($442)
UTG+1 ($80)
MP1 ($414.55)
MP2 ($361.25)
MP3 ($564.85)
Hero ($597.90)
Preflop: Hero is CO with   .
2 folds, MP1 [...]

Poker is a funny game. In the long run, the money goes from the bad players to the good players. It is as inevitable as water flowing downhill and casinos making money. The key aspect of that sentence is the “long run” bit. Many of us fail to appreciate just how [...]

I played a mildly interesting hand today against a solid player that I face all the time at 30/60 and 15/30 on stars. I thought it might be interesting to walk through it and what I was thinking at the time. I almost entitled this post “A fine line between genius and donkey”
PokerStars [...]

We met with a decorator today to review his plans for the house. Apparently, he wants us to spend about 33% of what we originally spent to purchase the house on various upgrades and renovations. This means that I need to play some really good poker. At one point when he was [...]

I’ve got to spend some more time with it and I’m becoming a big fan.  You can really find some brilliant stuff with the new filters.  Here are a sample of the cool things you can do:

Three of a kind on flop — top set
Three of a kind on turn — middle set
open ended straight [...]

The PokerTracker 3.0 beta test is open to the public now. I downloaded it from their site last night and ran my last month’s data through it. All the key numbers matched the numbers in my old PokerTracker DB, which is good news. It comes with a built-in idiot-proof install of the [...]

So, I got PokerTracker running on the macbook using Parallels and I’ve loaded all my hands and I have much better precision on my results.  As I suspected, I’m losing at 5/10 trying to play four or more simultaneous tables.  I’m also getting killed heads-up.  It turns out I’m getting waxed at pretty much every [...]

After a hiatus from all things poker (except ITH, which seems to be an addiction) I find myself back in the poker playing groove with the new year. I know exactly what started it. I read somewhere that PokerStars now has a native Mac client. Since I have pretty much forsaken the [...]