Introduction to Online Texas Hold em Online Texas hold em is wildly popular. Whether it is tournaments, sit and gos or cash games, you can find thousands of people online playing Texas hold’em every day at site such as PokerStars and Carbon Poker. If you are ready to join them, here are a few things to expect from the experience. Online Texas Hold’em From Live Texas Hold’em If you’ve always played live Texas hold’em and [...]

I’m often asked what Auto Hot Key scripts I use when I play full ring cash games on PokerStars. For those of you who don’t know Auto Hot Key (AHK) is a useful script compiling tool that allows you to automate certain tasks. When you are multi-tabling online poker on a large scale, time is of the essence. Thus, any precious seconds you can save add to your ability to put more hands in. When [...]

Going into the days play the opposition were 0-57 chasing our 145 and it looked like the writing was on the wall. The batsman that destroyed us last week was nowhere to be seen though and it was a whole new ball game. We promptly took about 7 for 20 and the game was in our grasp. Unfortunately, the last two wickets (we only needed 9) evaded us for too long and we ended up [...]

Trying to up the poker content on the old blog so I thought I’d write a summary of some of the little generalisations and theorems that are floating around the poker world… Baluga Theorem When you are the pre-flop raiser, you c-bet the flop and have your turn bet raised your one pair hands probably aren’t good. Yeti Theorem A flop 3-bet on a dry board (usually a paired one) it is often a bluff. [...]

The first test match between Australia and India gets underway in Bangalore tomorrow. This is a much anticipated re-match after what went down in the series that was held in Australia last summer. Australia won that series 2-1, but it is going to be a far more difficult task playing away from home. This is an Australian team which has very little experience playing on the sub-contintent and thus faces an uphill battle to overcome [...]