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Cooking with Gas

Date: Mon, Mar 10, 2008 Internet Live Tournament

I actually had a really good day Sunday for the first time in a while.  I was down about $1,000 on the month going into Sunday and I’m now up about the same on Monday.  That makes Sunday about a $2,000 day, which is a very good day indeed. I’ve been mixing it up a bit, [...]

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I think I am more motivated to blog on winning days than losing days.

Date: Thu, Mar 6, 2008 Internet Live Tournament

Over the weekend, I dropped around $1,000 between tourneys, NL and limit. Mostly, I played good and had bad results, but I am running out of ways to say that. I will elaborate on the specific situation I’m in at the moment and how I’m dealing with it. But first, I wanted [...]

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February Wrap-up

Date: Sat, Mar 1, 2008 Internet Live Tournament

On Feb 29th, PokerStars ran a promotion where you earned twice as many points as usual for your play. I heard about it late in the day, but realized that it would be a great opportunity to boost the old point total. In response, I played one table for about 20 minutes. [...]

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A brief diversion from poker to cover “The Wire”

Date: Thu, Feb 28, 2008 Internet Live Tournament

First of all, let me get this one thing out of the way.   The Wire is the best television show ever made.  Not just good, the best.  Some of you think that M.A.S.H. or The Sopranos or some other show is the best, but you are wrong.  If you haven’t watched The Wire or you [...]

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Riding the rollercoaster.

Date: Wed, Feb 27, 2008 Internet Live Tournament

I’ve been a bit up and down since I last posted an update. Mostly, I’ve been focused on a variety of personal issues getting ready for the house update. I’ve played a bit more on Stars and some on Cake, just to check it out. ITHers find Cake uber-soft and it seems [...]

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I’m not sure how this relates to poker

Date: Mon, Feb 25, 2008 Internet Live Tournament

But I’m sure it does:

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Turn raises

Date: Fri, Feb 22, 2008 Internet Live Tournament

Terry Borer is the guest expert on ITH today and he has posted in an interesting thread about turn raises and what they represent. His book suggested that turn raises are top pair or better a very high percentage of the time. The book suggests it may be as high as 94% of [...]

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If I had your hand and you had mine, what would happen?

Date: Thu, Feb 21, 2008 Internet Live Tournament

I have played almost no poker since the last update. I woke up at 2AM this morning and have been playing for half an hour or so. Action is slow, so I’m playing 10/20 on Stars at the moment. I got in a funny situation on the table there. There was [...]

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Slow poker day

Date: Tue, Feb 19, 2008 Internet Live Tournament

Today was primarily dedicated to making remodeling decisions on the house and building a spreadsheet to track just how screwed I am.  The first item we discussed was the appliances for the kitchen and I think we’re $4,000 over budget on that line item.  That does not bode well for the project.  Its kinda frustrating [...]

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Good news / bad news

Date: Mon, Feb 18, 2008 Internet Live Tournament

I played a lot better yesterday.  I was recognizing the flow of the game better and I’m pretty sure I corrected most of the leaks I was working on.  Unfortunately, this didn’t translate into winning money, as I dropped $500 or so.  Nonetheless, I’m pretty confident that I was playing better. I actually donked around in [...]

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Sometimes you run bad, but usually you play bad.

Date: Sun, Feb 17, 2008 Internet Live Tournament

There is a flaw common to many of us as poker players.  We tend to think we are better than we are.  When we win, we accept it as our natural due and when we lose we tend to blame bad luck.  Certainly, luck is involved especially when you look at day by day results [...]

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The state of online poker today

Date: Thu, Feb 14, 2008 Internet Live Tournament

In the pre-UIGEA days, I used to be able to find dozens of full tables of 15/30 and 30/60 at any hour of the day or night at good old PartyPoker.  Often, these tables were populated with some amazingly poor players.  You saw new faces every single day.  Part of this is explained by the [...]

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I haven’t been doing enough opposition research lately

Date: Wed, Feb 13, 2008 Internet Live Tournament

It occurred to me that I really haven’t been spending enough time reviewing my sessions and analyzing my opponents lately.  I got to devote a little bit of time to that project late last night when I couldn’t sleep and I feel like it helped me make better decisions already today.  I think I found [...]

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Attitude in poker

Date: Tue, Feb 12, 2008 Internet Live Tournament

I’ve said before that I think one of my biggest strengths is that I don’t tilt. Sometimes when I tell people this they don’t understand what it really means. It doesn’t mean that bad beats aren’t aggravating or that I never curse at showdown to myself. It just means that the results [...]

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