I went along upon the invitation of my grandpa to the Melbourne Cricket Club’s lunch for it’s 50-year members, of which he is one. I had to get suited up for the occasion, which is becoming a rare event these days. The lunch was held in the Member’s Dining Room, which I hadn’t been into before, despite being a member. The guest speaker was former Geelong player Barry Stoneham. I was easily the youngest person [...]

An unknown player has a 40 big blind(bb) stack in the big blind, it is folded to you in the cut off seat and you raise 4bb with JJ. It is folded, to the short stack in the big blind who pushes, should you call? In these types of situations I assign a standard pushing range for your run of the mill short stack. Equity & Ranges – As Calculated in PokerStove Short stack: 51.402% [...]

UTG+1 is an unknown, but the BB is a solid 2+2 poster who I have played heaps of hands with. The UTG+1 makes a weak mini-raise in EP and I decide to 3-bet it with a strong hand and the button in front of me. The BB cold calls, which is a little scary actually, I figure him to have JJ+ or AK. most 2+2′ers never 4-bet and I know that this player has been [...]

I made a post the other day ruing my bad luck and some poor play. I’m pretty sure I suffered my worst poker downswing in history (in turns of buy-ins, not just dollars). I think after a few good sessions that period is behind me now. It really was pretty gross some of the hands that I went through and I was starting to doubt my abilities to win at this level, but thankfully my [...]

It has taken  me a few days to get around to writing this entry, mainly because it was such a depressing match. I really thought we had improved to be a lot better than this, maybe we just had an off night, but even so. I must take responsibility for changing up the batting order first off, removing Brad and myself from opening and replacing with Berge/Mike (who had been a stronger partnership so far [...]