Browsing articles from "May, 2008"
May
14
2008

Hand Reading – A Fun Excercise (Video)

Fun Game To Play – Download Video! It has been a while since I last put out a video and this is one with a little difference. There is definitely a lot to be gained from sharpening your ability to read the hands of your opponents. With that in mind this is a demonstration of an exercise I like to do to work on my skills. All you need is PokerTracker and some old hand [...]

May
13
2008

Running Below Expectation – A Tough Pill To Swallow

Poker is a game that is all about long-term positive expectation. It is so very easy to be swept up in short term cycles of winning and losing sessions and forget how lengthy the long term actually is. In general, poker players will dismiss their cycles of performing above expectation as deserved and their bad runs as horrific luck. Players will be far more willing to question the randomness cards when they are constantly being [...]

May
13
2008

A General Update

Hey everyone! I haven’t blogged in a little while so I thought I’d just post a little update of what is going on in my life. Victoria vs Dreamteam Over the weekend I went to the Victoria vs. Dream Team game at the MCG. The football was of very high quality, but there was a distinct lack of atmosphere inside the ground. I think the crowd’s indifference to the result was evidence by the Mexican [...]

May
6
2008

AA – 40/15 Shoves Over Short Stack All-In

SB is 40/15/2.5 over 30 hands, shortie is unknown. KK/QQ seem very unlikely here, 55 and KQ are in his range obviously (maybe even K5s/Q5s given his high VPIP), but does this guy ever show up with AK (I guess if I assume he threebets QQ I have to assume he does with AK also) or something ridiculous like JT? Is this a case where you’d fold on this board but call if it was [...]

May
5
2008

Near Death Experience

Brad and I were on our way home from Indoor Cricket at about 10pm at night when we were nearly killed by a crazy driver that suddenly popped out right in front of us as we were travelling at 60kmph down a two lane road. There was a car in the other direction that was changing lanes to the left and this moron thought it would be a good idea to speed up (he was [...]

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