Beware The Ides Of March Update
Date: Fri, Mar 14, 2008
Two weeks ago I talked about my (relatively) new online poker experiment. For years I never much liked playing online, and I pretty much stuck to playing live. It may seem peculiar that I’ve played poker for six years and only now am I really getting into online poker, but for some reason I just [...]
Q&A #101: Sweetening The Pot In No Limit
Date: Wed, Mar 12, 2008
Have you heard someone say that they’re raising in order to sweeten the pot? Do you think they’re nuts? Or is there method to their madness? This is today’s question from Greyzy: Every once in a while I hear someone saying that he raised preflop with DRAWING hands like ATs- to sweeten the pot. Personally I [...]
Blocking Bets and The Mathematics Of Poker
Date: Sun, Mar 9, 2008
This week I’ve been reading The Mathematics of Poker by Bill Chen and Jerrod Ankenman. It’s quite a piece of work. The bulk of the book focuses on finding game theoretically optimal (GTO) solutions to simplified “toy” poker games. The purpose of these exercises is clearly twofold: To lay the groundwork for formulating GTO solutions to [...]
Blocking Bets and The Mathematics Of Poker
Date: Sun, Mar 9, 2008
This week I’ve been reading The Mathematics of Poker by Bill Chen and Jerrod Ankenman. It’s quite a piece of work. The bulk of the book focuses on finding game theoretically optimal (GTO) solutions to simplified “toy” poker games. The purpose of these exercises is clearly twofold: To lay the groundwork for formulating GTO solutions to [...]
Blocking Bets and The Mathematics Of Poker
Date: Sun, Mar 9, 2008
This week I’ve been reading The Mathematics of Poker by Bill Chen and Jerrod Ankenman. It’s quite a piece of work. The bulk of the book focuses on finding game theoretically optimal (GTO) solutions to simplified “toy” poker games. The purpose of these exercises is clearly twofold: To lay the groundwork for formulating GTO solutions to [...]
Holding Top Pair On A Straight Board
Date: Thu, Mar 6, 2008
Everyone has warning bells go off in their heads when three to a straight are on board and they don’t have a reasonable shot at making a straight. But you might not know exactly how dangerous these boards can be. As it turns out, if you have top pair with no chance to improve to [...]
On Take A Stand Tilt
Date: Mon, Mar 3, 2008
Tilt comes in many forms, and from the beginning of my poker career I’ve struggled with a number of them and conquered a few. There was a time when getting rivered would leave me stewing for the next ten minutes, loosening way up in the process. I worked at seeing the big picture and understanding [...]
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