The Shark Tank

I’ve said before that I think one of my biggest strengths is that I don’t tilt. Sometimes when I tell people this they don’t understand what it really means. It doesn’t mean that bad beats aren’t aggravating or that I never curse at showdown to myself. It just means that the results of one hand [...]

That was the mantra of our little band when we were all ejected from the main event on day one last year.  We all felt that we were playing better than most of our tables, but for various reasons things didn’t go our way and we all ended up drinking heavily and clinking glasses to [...]

I have no one to blame for today’s debacle but PokerElmo.  I was sailing along at $400 NL, crushing it to death for 16 ptbb/100.  He pops up in the comments and says “not sustainable” and “5 ptbb/100 is probably more realistic.”  As today drew to a close, my $400 NL earn rate is now [...]

NL cash games are such a completely different mindset than the other forms of poker that I play most often. In limit poker, the best players aggressively pursue very small edges. As a result, the things we do sometimes look insane to the outside observer. One of the very worst things that you can do [...]

I’m always a bit conflicted about the choice between playing NoLimit or Limit games. On the one hand, I clearly understand limit strategy better. On the other hand, most of the serious donks seem to be playing NL these days. Every time I play some NL, I seem to do well. I’m up about 16 [...]

Today, poker was mucho ugly. My PokerStars balance is now $1,250 lower than it was yesterday. I won a little bit at 50/100 or it would have been even worse. At one point, I was probably down $3,000, which would have been grim. On the plus side, I’m now at 2,000 VPPs for the month, [...]

I wound up sleeping a shocking amount, so I didn’t get too much play in yesterday. Most of my play was two tabling 15/30, where I ran into my old friend RocketPlayer. I had a weird session at his table where nothing was working and the table was good. There was one guy in particular [...]

Suited had the idea for me to write this particular blog entry.  I was telling her about an experience I had last night where someone started to berate me for being such a bad player.  This happens to me fairly often because I seem to play a bit different than anyone else I see.  I [...]

I have been a lifelong Patriots fan. I suffered through so many years when we were terrible that I can hardly tell you about them. You know, when their logo looked like this: The only real joy you got in those days was when Jim Plunkett would somehow manage to heave the ball a million [...]

Well, the first month is in the bag and the final results are in. I’m very pleased with the results and feel as if I’m playing almost as well as I did when I stopped six months ago. You’ll recall that my goals were to make SuperNova, which requires 100,000 VPPs and I also set [...]