Archive for January 6th, 2009

Sorry I haven’t had the opportunity to put together my 2009 Resolutions yet- they’ll be coming soon…

The Poker Stars Sunday Million (which now guarantees a $1.5 million prizepool and routinely clears that by a healthy margin) is comparable to the WSOP main event for its ability to entice atrocious poker players to play for far more money than their skill warrants. Even though I’d surely have a higher expected value playing cash tables, I still play it most Sundays for some combination of nostalgia, prestige, sadism, and lottery-esque gamble.

This hand from today’s tournament exemplifies a problem that I often have in the early stages. I just don’t know how to read the hands of truly awful players, and while they make enough fundamental mistakes to compensate, they can for that reason be irksome. It can be tough to tell whether they are overplaying a garbage hand or holding a monster. Then to make matters worse, they always get there:

PokerStars No-Limit Hold’em, $200+$15 Tournament, 25/50 Blinds (7 handed) – Poker-Stars Converter Tool from FlopTurnRiver.com

BB (t9750)
UTG (t9975)
MP1 (t8135)
Hero (MP2) (t9490)
CO (t9925)
Button (t9925)
SB (t12800)

Preflop: Hero is MP2 with 10, 10
UTG raises to t100, MP1 calls t100, Hero calls t100, 3 folds, BB calls t50  Read the complete post...