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I’m Back - New Material To Follow

Date: Sat, Oct 31, 2009 Internet Live

Yeah, I know.  I haven’t updated in forever and a day.  My bad.  The truth is I haven’t been playing a lot of poker.  My gambling has tended to sports and the financial markets of late.  That’s changing though, thanks to the newish gambling laws in CO that make it more worthwhile playing here.  And [...]

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Answers To Hand Quiz 1

Date: Mon, Mar 9, 2009 Internet Live

OK, it’s time for the answers to the first hand quiz.  I had hoped to produce a little more discussion, but I think making it 7 card stud scared everyone off.  That’s unfortunate, but I’m not easily deterred.  So I’m going to keep doing hand quizzes.  I do think in the future I’ll make most [...]

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Answers To Hand Quiz 1

Date: Mon, Mar 9, 2009 Internet Live

OK, it’s time for the answers to the first hand quiz.  I had hoped to produce a little more discussion, but I think making it 7 card stud scared everyone off.  That’s unfortunate, but I’m not easily deterred.  So I’m going to keep doing hand quizzes.  I do think in the future I’ll make most [...]

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Answers To Hand Quiz 1

Date: Mon, Mar 9, 2009 Internet Live

OK, it’s time for the answers to the first hand quiz.  I had hoped to produce a little more discussion, but I think making it 7 card stud scared everyone off.  That’s unfortunate, but I’m not easily deterred.  So I’m going to keep doing hand quizzes.  I do think in the future I’ll make most [...]

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CardSharp Mailbag: A Set On A 3-Suited Board

Date: Sat, Feb 28, 2009 Internet Live

Hi Wayne, I’ve been following your blog for quite some time now. It is on the top of my RSS Reader and I love it because of your very logical way of describing optimal play. My question is how do you play a low set on such a suited board? Recently playing $1-$2 cash no-limit at the local [...]

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CardSharp Mailbag: A Set On A 3-Suited Board

Date: Sat, Feb 28, 2009 Internet Live

Hi Wayne, I’ve been following your blog for quite some time now. It is on the top of my RSS Reader and I love it because of your very logical way of describing optimal play. My question is how do you play a low set on such a suited board? Recently playing $1-$2 cash no-limit at the local [...]

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A Hand Quiz

Date: Mon, Feb 23, 2009 Internet Live

Here’s a little quiz.  I figure it might get some interesting discussion going.  I realize we haven’t done any stud on cardsharp, but think of it as a chance to broaden your horizons. The game is stud high. You are the bringin with [8h 8c] 2d. The 3s, Jh, Qh, 6d fold. The [...]

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Special Boards: The Suited Flop

Date: Fri, Feb 20, 2009 Internet Live

Certain boards in holdem radically alter the value of your holding and the way typical hands play out.  The most common of these is the three-flush or suited flop where all three cards are of the same suit.  You’ll get such a flop roughly 1 hand in 20. The reason suited flop are important is that [...]

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Pot Control Revisited Part Two - Multiple Goals

Date: Mon, Feb 9, 2009 Internet Live

I’ve touched on this a little bit before in the previous pot control articles, but it probably bears additional discussion.  In situations where you’re engagin in pot control with a top pair/top kicker type hand, you have a large number of simultaneous goals.  The one we’ve spent the most time on is avoiding going broke [...]

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Pot Control Revisited Part 1

Date: Tue, Feb 3, 2009 Internet Live

Since I wrote them, I’ve gotten a lot of mail about the articles on set farming, the payoff rule, and the two articles on pot control.  Most of that mail has been very positive, but I want to provide a little bit of extra detail and a slightly different perspective on the subject and clear [...]

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In Defense Of Grinding - The ‘Peter Principle’ And Poker

Date: Fri, Jan 30, 2009 Internet Live

“In a hierarchy, every employee tends to rise to his level of incompetence” - Dr. Lawrence Peter, The Peter Principle “In a cardroom, every player tends to move up until he can no longer beat the game” - me, right now. Dr. Peter’s observation was originally intended as somewhat of a joke, as is my corollary.  But [...]

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Review: Middle Limit Holdem Poker

Date: Mon, Jan 26, 2009 Internet Live

Author: Bob Ciaffone & Jim Brier Publisher: Self Published I’ve been playing more limit holdem recently, and I suspect it will be the next “project” on CardSharp once I get more or less finished with NL holdem.  In preparation for that I’ve been going back over all the books I own on the limit version of the [...]

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CardSharp Mailbag: Even More About Big Hands Out Of Position Preflop

Date: Fri, Jan 23, 2009 Internet Live

I just got another question about out-of-position play with big hands related to this post here (this article won’t make sense without reading that one): The one area that still needs addressing on the subject of premium hands in early position is what to do when the blinds are very deep. If a limp, a normal [...]

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Small Edges and Win Rate

Date: Mon, Jan 19, 2009 Internet Live

I would venture a guess that even most winning poker players don’t put enough thought into the ultimate effect of their win rate on their gambling career.  Some work I did on sports betting recently went a long ways towards clarifying this for me personally.  I realize this isn’t a sports betting blog, but I [...]

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