The Shark Tank

After abdicating my role as organizer of the ITH People’s Championship, I finally put in a good showing at the actual event. On the very first hand of the tourney, I found KK and raised it up. Yankees 3 bet from the BB with AK. I went ahead and shoved, which was actually probably donkish, [...]

Again this month, real life events have superseded my poker playing and I have fallen way behind on points for my SuperNova quest.  So far, I have only accumulated about 1,500 FPPs, which is obviously way behind the 10,000 I would need to remain Platinum.  I think I’m going to concentrate more on NL cash [...]

I was looking at some of the poker events and trying to decide how to arrange my poker playing schedule for the first week of the WSOP.  Here is my initial game plan: Sat, 5/30>  Play sit-n-gos and sats, claim Stars merchandise for Event 2, rail Matthew, Paul and Chris Sun 6/1>  Day 1b of [...]

This pretty much sums up my feelings about poker in general and my struggles in particular: “I’ve worked very, very hard at being less of an idiot more of the time”  Andy Black The context was him saying that when he is on his game, he is a very good player.  He accumulates chips very [...]

When it folds to you in the small blind, complete. If the flop misses you or you flop a draw, bet the flop. If the flop hits you, check-raise. This will cover 90% of your hands in this situation. The other situations that come up are: You hit the flop and he fails to bet [...]

I thought of posting this one last night.  In general, when someone limps in the small blind to your big blind, you should raise.  I find that about 70% of the time they will fold pre-flop or on the flop, making the move profitable with any two cards.  If someone routinely folds pre-flop when you [...]

April was a bit of a struggle, because I played almost no poker for half the month and had to scramble to get in enough hands by the end of the month. I definitely played badly for several stretches as a result, sometimes making poor table selection decisions and sometimes just missing obvious opportunities. I [...]