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Birthday Bliss - Round 4

Fri, 18 Jul 2008 17:12:57 +0000

unknown wrote an interesting post today on
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Sat at a table and on the first hand I watched a dude shove all in for 135 BB’s preflop (female avatar…but no female poker player is that crazy) . His opponent thought about it and called w/ 88…and won. The original shover showed 95o. I looked him up, and he was a maniac.
He immediately left the table, and I went in search of him. Found him at another table with a seat open to his right. The rest of the table would not fall under the category of desirable opponents - but this guy with this one move made me believe that he’d make it worth my while - and he didn’t know that I saw him shove with the 95o because I just sat down at the other table and never played a hand.
So I waited and waited. 27 hands…didn’t see a flop. Partway through, the seat to […]

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Birthday Bliss - Round 3

Fri, 18 Jul 2008 16:31:35 +0000

ksnydersj wrote an interesting post today on
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Ok - back from Target & Cost Plus. Got Ben’s gift taken care of. He and Elaine are having a b-day party/housewarming next Friday. Tomorrow they’re taking me to a concert in Mountain View - I’m stoked to see Jesus & Mary Chain headline the event. Way cool.
Anyway, while browsing the tables I found a 6-seater that only had 2 players - I did my usual G2 and saw that one of them was loose-aggressive and had 100 BB’s he was ready to play with. I decided to have a go at him heads up.
Things went sour for the poor guy pretty quickly. I was pretty aggressive and took down some early pots. Then w/ QTo flopped an open ender. Which I hit and he paid me off bigtime. On the river, I bet 1/2 his stack - thinking he’d come over top - but he just called. Leaving him […]

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Round 3

Fri, 18 Jul 2008 16:31:35 +0000

hkeye wrote an interesting post today on
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Ok - back from Target & Cost Plus. Got Ben’s gift taken care of. He and Elaine are having a b-day party/housewarming next Friday. Tomorrow they’re taking me to a concert in Mountain View - I’m stoked to see Jesus & Mary Chain headline the event. Way cool.
Anyway, while browsing the tables I found a 6-seater that only had 2 players - I did my usual G2 and saw that one of them was loose-aggressive and had 100 BB’s he was ready to play with. I decided to have a go at him heads up.
Things went sour for the poor guy pretty quickly. I was pretty aggressive and took down some early pots. Then w/ QTo flopped an open ender. Which I hit and he paid me off bigtime. On the river, I bet 1/2 his stack - thinking he’d come over top - but he just called. Leaving him […]

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Poker One-Liners We Can All Do Without

Fri, 18 Jul 2008 15:38:15 +0000

Jeremy wrote an interesting post today on
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Poker abounds with quickies - one-liners that seem to carry a cartload of wisdom. Some indeed do. I even devoted an article to one of them.
That was for Mike Caro’s bit about how “aggression is rarely wrong in poker.”
Other favorites of mine are Doyle Brunson’s “Never go broke in an unraised pot,” the uncredited “Small hands, small pots; big hands, big pots” and the wildly popular, “If you can’t spot the fish in the first half-hour, it’s you.”
Most one-offs come from the greats, or get filtered down through the culture of the game. And like aphorisms everywhere, they are admirable for their clean, efficient encoding of deep truths.
Alas, there are others that abound in poker rooms that come up short in the wisdom department but are far more common and more commonly believed. I’d like to dissect a couple of them for you.
I hope there’s a poker lesson here, and […]

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Birthday Bliss - Round 2

Fri, 18 Jul 2008 15:17:25 +0000

pokerfanatic wrote an interesting post today on
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Same as earlier - with less luck.
I ended up down about 30 BB’s about mid-way thru a 70 minute session. Before this week, I’d have re-loaded. But I decided to focus on performance rather than results - so I didn’t replenish. I tried to play good solid poker. Most players to my right were tight, so not much money was going to come from playing position - I’d have to rely on the loose players to my left to hang themselves.
While nobody “hung” themselves, I did manage to fight back and end up 10 BB’s ahead of my buy-in. Not bad, of course, and to top it off - even keeled the whole time with little focus on profit - only on playing solid. For the most part, mission accomplished!
Done for now - gonna go hit Target and maybe Cost Plus.
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Round 2 today

Fri, 18 Jul 2008 15:17:25 +0000

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Birthday Bliss in 15 minutes

Fri, 18 Jul 2008 13:32:54 +0000

United113 wrote an interesting post today on
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Today’s the 37th birthday. I went to bed fairly early and woke up to take Kevin and Katya to the airport. More than happy to do this for them on my birthday because they both have birthdays that will occur while they’re on vacation. Not only that, but I’d do anything for them…any time…any day.
After dropping them off, I grabbed the laptop and my books and headed to Lowry’s. I read a fair amount from one of the new books. With additional wisdom fresh in my brain - combined with yesterday’s performance - I was ready to sit down for a few.
Right Limit - check
Right Table - check
Right Seat - check
Buy-in - 50 BB’s (Deepstack table - could have bought in for 200 BB’s)
Things went smashingly as I built off of yesterday’s mantra.
Performance = Good
Luck = Good
Results = Good
50 BB’s in 15 mins. Taking a break to enjoy a cheesesteak […]

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It pains me to do this

Fri, 18 Jul 2008 12:57:24 +0000

ksnydersj wrote an interesting post today on
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Why do I punish myself by making my ramblings and comments viewable to the internet public when we all know the internet public can be considered a ravenous beast whose only food source is a comment field and text with alternating caps? Surely within an hour of this post some illiterate ass-hat will creatively design a comment which I’m sure will serve no other purpose than to push the human race down an evolutionary stair or two.
Now that I’ve pissed off any readers I’ll answer my question, only because it now amuses myself: Greed and Boredom. (Note that I didn’t mention “power” as power tends to come with a degree of responsibility, fuck responsibility) While the boredom aspect of this blog will likely be fairly obvious, I’m sure you’re shaking your head as to how greed comes into play here.
Well it’s quite simple.
The more I write and the more […]

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Fri, 18 Jul 2008 11:52:50 +0000

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World Series of Poker Players Spice Up Side Pots

Fri, 18 Jul 2008 09:18:18 +0000

New York Post wrote an interesting post today on
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July 8, 2008
It takes plenty of confidence and oodles of cash just to play in the World Series of Poker main event, but the world’s best rounders are making things even spicier by raising the stakes against one another.
Gold bracelets command respect for winners of series events, but big-time poker pros Daniel Negreanu and Phil Ivey added an extra $200,000 incentive for each other to win one or more of the 55 events this year, Negreanu said.
Negreanu’s limit Texas Hold ‘em win earlier this month got him $204,874 in prize money, but his bet with Ivey has nearly doubled that. Ivey can even the score if he wins the main event, a no-limit Texas Hold ‘em tournament that will mean millions of dollars for the winner and certain poker fame.
California psychologist Jerry Yang — who gave the famous “Shuffle up and deal” order on Friday — beat 6,357 others last […]

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