The Shark Tank

In the comments to this post, Nuke asked my opinion of a few of the regular players in the 10/20 and 15/30 games.  He named three players and I named one additional player.  Today, I was looking through my referral logs from Google and discovered an interesting fact.  Two of the four player nicknames mentioned [...]

First things first. I may have “stole” some of this material from a number of poker books. At this point, I have read so much and forgot even more, so I no longer remember which ideas are my own and which ideas I learned from the greats. Also, I make no promises [...]

One of my midget nephews is turning four tomorrow. When quizzed about what he would like for his birthday he happily extolled the virtues of his preferred toy, named mega-Mechanikat. He went into quite some detail about how the toy works and what makes it the coolest thing since the last thing he [...]

I have stalled at 9,000 FPPs and I’m not sure when I’m going to play again this month. I was in New York this weekend checking out the auto show while Suited shopped and now I’m in the middle of the remodel. To top it all off, I’m getting ready to take a [...]

Life has really gotten in the way of poker lately. The crazy remodel starts in earnest next week, so I’ve had a list of tasks a mile long. I cleared the small pantry and got to do some demolition, which is the best part of any project. I banged out the shelves [...]

I played a bit more yesterday, having up to four tables at times. I played pretty much all the 30/60 and 15/30 games and I got called a fish a lot. As usual, that was a good sign. There was one terrible, terrible player at the 15/30 table who played pretty much [...]

I haven’t even loaded it into PokerTracker yet, I was not that enthused about reviewing my session. I finished the night with a fairly short 30/60 session where I got hammered from beginning to end. I played exactly three big pots and got crushed in all three. First, I flopped the nut [...]

I played 200 hands and won $200 and earned 200 FPPs. Actually, I earned 300, but it would be cooler if I earned 200 for the purposes of this post. I will add a hand where I won $200 and were I lost $200:
PokerStars 15/30 Hold’em (10 handed)
Preflop: Hero is BB with , [...]

There is one thing that always happens to me when I’m playing good.  I get abuse in the chat box telling me what an idiot I am.  I find this to be a surefire sign that I’m playing right.  It is because when I’m on my game, I’m tormenting people by pushing them around and [...]

I was just reviewing my hands from Sunday and found this gem of superstar play in which I may have goofed up every street.
PokerStars 10/20 Hold’em (8 handed)
Preflop: Hero is UTG with , .
Hero calls, 1 fold, MP1 calls, MP2 raises, 1 fold, Button 3-bets, 2 folds, Hero calls, MP1 calls, MP2 calls.

This was a [...]