Full Tilt Poker, $10/$20 NL Hold’em Cash Game, 7 PlayersLeggoPoker.com – Hand History Converter Hero (SB): $2,330BB: $1,770UTG: $1,854UTG+1: $2,227MP: $2,000CO: $2,018.25BTN: $2,000 Pre-Flop: A K dealt to Hero (SB)5 folds, Hero raises to $80, BB raises to $240, Hero … Read more…
PokerNews has a review today of the new poker tables at Mohegan Sun. As they point out, it isn’t a technically a poker room, as they are just electronic tables on the casino floor: “They have PokerPro™ poker machines. No … Read more…
Full Tilt Poker, $10/$20 NL Hold’em Cash Game, 3 PlayersLeggoPoker.com – Hand History Converter BTN: $2,573.50SB: $2,737.70Hero (BB): $3,441.50 Pre-Flop: T T dealt to Hero (BB)BTN raises to $70, SB raises to $260, Hero raises to $591, 2 folds Results: … Read more…
I just saw him a few days ago and he didn’t say a word about this to me. Pretty sweet though!
More good press for the Global Poker Strategic Thinking Society, with PokerNews running a piece on them today: “The Global Poker Strategic Thinking Society already has chapters established or planned at Harvard, UCLA, Stanford, Carnegie-Mellon, Cornell, Michigan, Tufts, Indiana–South Bend, … Read more…
There are probably better poker books out there, but I have never enjoyed reading one as much as I enjoyed Tommy Angelo’s Elements of Poker. It’s a delightful read, alternately light and weighty, funny and stern, but a lot of … Read more…
Too Thin Full Tilt Poker Pot-Limit , $6 BB (6 handed) Hand History converter Courtesy of PokerZion.com BB ($386.55)UTG ($428.05)Hero ($986.50)CO ($618.45)Button ($249.30)SB ($538.15) Preflop: Hero is MP with 5d, 6d, As, Ah.1 fold, Hero raises to $21, CO calls … Read more…
Full Tilt Poker, $10/$20 NL Hold’em Cash Game, 4 PlayersLeggoPoker.com – Hand History Converter SB: $2,054BB: $710UTG: $412Hero (BTN): $2,020 Pre-Flop: 8 9 dealt to Hero (BTN)UTG folds, Hero raises to $50, SB folds, BB calls $30 Flop: ($110) T … Read more…
Full Tilt Poker Pot-Limit , $6 BB (5 handed) Hand History converter Courtesy of PokerZion.comMP ($425.65)Button ($588)Hero ($620.55)BB ($388.55)UTG ($978.80) Preflop: Hero is SB with 7c, 5h, 8s, 9h. 3 folds, Hero raises to $18, BB calls $12. Flop: ($36) … Read more…
Full Tilt Poker, $10/$20 NL Hold’em Cash Game, 5 PlayersLeggoPoker.com – Hand History Converter BB: $470UTG: $2,067Hero (CO): $4,166BTN: $2,117.50SB: $2,080 Pre-Flop: J J dealt to Hero (CO)UTG folds, Hero raises to $66, BTN raises to $228, 2 folds, Hero … Read more…
Full Tilt Poker Pot-Limit , $6 BB (5 handed) Hand History converter Courtesy of PokerZion.com Button ($819.45)SB ($1382.40)BB ($604.65)Hero ($837)MP ($813) Preflop: Hero is UTG with Kh, Ac, Ah, 7d. Hero raises to $21, MP calls $21, Button calls $21, … Read more…
Since I’m trying to improve my Pot Limit Omaha game right now, I found this to be one of the more useful Full Tilt Tips from the Pros. Brandon Adams argues that, “ One of the best bluffing opportunities in … Read more…
I posted my recent review of Two Plus Two’s new book Tournament Poker for Advanced Players Expanded Edition on the 2+2 Books and Publications Forum. Both author David Sklansky and publisher Mason Malmuth have responded to portions of my review. … Read more…
It’s pretty rare that I’m folding 99 pre-flop when I have 15 BB’s, but here, there were a lot of danger signs: 1. The UTG Limper It’s far from a guarantee, but at this stage of the game, there’s not … Read more…
Jimmy Fricke, 2+2’s Gobboboy, finished second to Gus Hansen in the main event of last year’s Aussie Millions. And now he’s finally got a championship under his belt. There’s something about winning, even when it’s not worth nearly as much. … Read more…
This was from the $200 FTP Sunday Mulligan: Full Tilt Poker, NL Hold’em Tournament, 50/100 Blinds, 9 PlayersLeggoPoker.com – Hand History Converter SB: 6,320BB: 4,715UTG: 3,110UTG+1: 5,250UTG+2: 2,755Hero (MP1): 8,290MP2: 3,250CO: 6,340BTN: 3,555 Pre-Flop: (150) A K dealt to Hero … Read more…
I lasted about 6 hours in the most recent Stars Sunday Million, mostly with a big stack, though I didn’t even end up making the money. But here was a key hand that came up a few hours in. Pay … Read more…
Since I was without blog for the last few days, I finally got around to giving the website a face lift and updating it with a lot of new material. It’s all stuff that’s been published in the blog already, … Read more…
Sorry for the recent downtime, apparently my domain name expired on January 2nd and despite the assurances of three different tech support people from Ipower, it was not actually renewed. I’ve renewed it this morning and was warned it would … Read more…
Full Tilt PokerPot Limit Omaha Ring gameBlinds: $3/$66 playersConverter Stack sizes:UTG: $676.15UTG+1: $598.20Hero: $658.70Button: $535.30SB: $110.95BB: $251.10 Pre-flop: (6 players) Hero is CO with :td :as :qs :qdUTG folds, UTG+1 raises to $21, Hero calls, Button folds, SB calls, BB … Read more…
When I’m not tilting, I tend to give these turn min-check-raises a lot of credit, maybe too much. Here, it just didn’t seem that plausible for him to have a set. TT is possible I guess, but he’s probably 3-betting … Read more…
Apparently this is their 3rd appearance, but I just happened to come across my friend Tony (Bond18 to the online poker world, George Dunst to the federalis) and his girlfriend Celina Lin in a new feature called “He Said, She … Read more…
This was my bust-out hand from yesterday’s $300 weekly on Poker Stars. This is a minor point, but there’s almost no downside to doing it, so it’s worth considering: Poker Stars, $300 + $20 NL Hold’em Tournament, 300/600 Blinds, 9 … Read more…
Poker Stars has recently decided to extend its ban of Josh Fields, known to the online poker community as JJProdigy, from their online poker site to the annual live tournament they run at a Caribbean casino/resort called Atlantis. I’ve got … Read more…
I just found an old note to myself to blog about this old Salon article called Requiem for a Poker Game. The author’s point is an interesting one: the current poker boom, fueled largely by the game’s presence on television … Read more…
That guy who I quit abruptly yesterday came back today and dropped another three stacks or so to me. We played for a good three hours, and he was definitely playing a little better than yesterday, though he was still … Read more…
Poker Stars, $300 + $20 NL Hold’em Tournament, 500/1,000 Blinds, 9 PlayersLeggoPoker.com – Hand History Converter MP2: 27,401CO: 95,299BTN: 29,780Hero (SB): 28,070BB: 25,954UTG: 20,960UTG+1: 15,156UTG+2: 21,026MP1: 46,580 Pre-Flop: (1,950) J J dealt to Hero (SB)2 folds, UTG+2 calls 1,000, 3 … Read more…
I got to bring about 70 students, coaches, administrators, and supporters of the Boston Debate League to a special advance screening of The Great Debaters last night. Judging from all of the clapping, laughing, and even cheering I heard, it … Read more…
Tournament players will probably be familiar with the “stop ‘n go” technique, named by none other than Greg Raymer back before he won the WSOP and was just a 2+2 poster called Fossilman. What he envisioned was a situation with … Read more…
This was a $1000 tournament with a great structure, as the other UBOC events have had. It also got over 800 runners, which is more than twice what I predicted. We started with 500 BB stacks, but I managed to … Read more…
I was looking forward to this $500 6-max event more than any other in the series. UB tournament players suck, they suck even more at 6-max, and most of them have no business spending $500 on a poker tournament. But … Read more…
This $200 NLHE tournament was over in like 20 minutes. I 3-bet a CO raise with AhKs in the SB, guy called. Flop Js 3 4h, I bet, he calls. Turn 9h, I pot it cuz that’s what they always … Read more…
It’s not a pure whine, cuz I think the river bet is maybe a little interesting and worth discussing, but jeebus. This is with about 80 left in the FTP Sunday Mulligan, and my current stack good for top fifth … Read more…
These took the place of the usual $200 and $500 tournaments on UB yesterday. I never got off the ground in the first one, just lost a ton of medium-sized pots, then the blinds got big and one of my … Read more…
I haven’t set up Poker Tracker Omaha to record UB HH’s, so this is from memory. But it was a PLO tournament, and while I’ve been doing well in 6-max PLO cash games, I don’t have a lot of full … Read more…
Ugh, spent 8 hours playing today, and just about everything that could possibly go wrong did. Set under set in the Stars $300, K8< A8 on an 88J flop in the FTP $300, flopped nut flush loses to set in ... Read more…
Poker legend Chip Reese, considered by many to be the best poker player ever, died this week at the age of 56. He got a page-long obituary in the New York Times and a very nice memorial video from Cardplayer … Read more…
I make a lot of continuation bets in PLO, but other than that, it can be tricky to pull off a bluff. The biggest mistake most players make is overvaluing hands that are strong in Hold ‘Em but marginal in … Read more…
Sorry I don’t have an exact hand history, as this came from a heads up match on UB, which doesn’t write HH files to your hard drive, and on a computer without Poker Tracker. I was playing against an aggressive … Read more…
Although retired FBI Special Agent Joe Navarro is the primary author of this book, the largest name on the cover is that of Phil Hellmuth. This establishes the tone of the entire book, whose very valuable core content is surrounded … Read more…
Poker StarsPot Limit Omaha Ring gameBlinds: $2/$45 playersConverter Stack sizes:CO: $784.95Button: $146.10SB: $662.20Foucault: $702.30UTG: $397.40 Pre-flop: (5 players) Foucault is BB with :4s :2d :3s :5dUTG raises to $12, CO calls, Button folds, SB calls Foucault calls. Flop: :qd :5h … Read more…
Richard Brodie’s contribution to the Full Tilt Poker Strategy Guide: Tournament Edition is a solid introduction to playing online poker tournaments. As is appropriate for the format of a relatively short chapter on the subject, he focuses on broad strategic … Read more…
Full Tilt Poker, $10/$20 NL Hold’em Cash Game, 9 PlayersLeggoPoker.com – Hand History Converter UTG+1: $1,960UTG+2: $2,468MP1: $2,114Hero (MP2): $6,516CO: $336BTN: $1,092.70SB: $2,411BB: $2,543UTG: $2,484 Pre-Flop: J T dealt to Hero (MP2)UTG raises to $70, 3 folds, Hero calls $70, … Read more…
The New Frontier was significant because it was the first of the ‘theme hotels’ that have become a Vegas staple. My girlfriend was there in person and said there was like two inches of dust on the cars and sidewalk … Read more…
I spent the last few days in New Jersey and New York, visiting first a friend from high school who is now studying German literature at Princeton, then two friends from college who recently got engaged and are now living … Read more…
I’m in New York this weekend visiting my old friend and roommate Logan, and since two other players from the home game Logan ran for three years in Cambridge are also in NYC now, we were able to get a … Read more…
Sorry I don’t have the exact HH for this, but it was from early in a nightly $129 bounty tournament on Ultimate Bet. Effective stacks were about 3000, with blinds 15/30. The UTG player opened with a pot-sized raise to … Read more…
I mentioned some time ago that Nat Arem was working on a documentary about a group of college students who had made a small fortune playing online poker. Well, the movie is finished now, and I’d suggest having a look. … Read more…
Full Tilt Poker blogger and editor (their book is pretty good, and addresses some subjects not covered by a lot of the poker literature) has an interesting piece on the applicability of international law to online gaming in the US. … Read more…
Harvard Law School’s Global Poker Strategic Thinking Society is hosting a conference this Saturday entitled “Innovative Thinking: The Educational Value of Poker” featuring Jim McManus, Mike Sexton, and Dr. Alan Schoonmaker. The conference will be a convening of academics, teachers, … Read more…
Adanthar wrote a great piece recently about the potential effect of the Absolute Poker scandal on the Poker Player Alliance’s efforts to legitimize online poker in the US. He cites the lack of a market response to the revelations of … Read more…
Ultimate Bet has recently introduced resizable tables for their poker client, meaning that you can now treat them like any other window on your computer and adjust their dimensions to fit as many as you like on your computer screen. … Read more…
Wednesday is the only weekday when I play tournaments anymore. I like the $300 weekly on Poker Stars with 20-minute blind levels, and because I’ve found that tournaments and cash games don’t mix well, I play some of the other … Read more…
Full Tilt Poker, $1.50/$3 NL Hold’em Cash Game, 2 PlayersLegoPoker Hand History Converter Hero (BB): $1,077.85SB: $303.05 Pre-Flop: 2 T dealt to Hero (BB)SB calls $1.50, Hero checks Flop: ($6) T 4 6 (2 Players)Hero checks, SB bets $3, Hero … Read more…
Barry Greenstein has just launched a new website called Poker Road which looks pretty sweet. It features blogs by Barry himself, his son Joe Sebok, Kevin “BelowAbove” Saul, and others, plus regularly scheduled radio and TV shows, articles, and even … Read more…
Here’s the hand that prompted this line of thinking: Full Tilt Poker, $3/$6 NL Hold’em Cash Game, 6 PlayersLegoPoker Hand History Converter SB: $704.60BB: $791UTG: $1,075.05MP: $537.70Hero (CO): $1,817.85BTN: $731.65 Pre-Flop: T J dealt to Hero (CO)2 folds, Hero raises … Read more…
Villain is a decent LAG but he does have trouble getting away from kinda strong hands when he should. I’ve got a pretty wild pre-flop image but have only shown down big hands when I play big pots. The guy … Read more…
This animated visualization of higher dimensions is one of the cooler things I’ve come across on the internet. To be fair, I don’t think it’s consistent with the most widely accepted theories among physicists, but it’s pretty interesting nonetheless.
3-betting pre-flop has become very popular in the mid-stakes FTP cash games, in part because it’s tough to counteract with 100BB stacks. Recently, though (and I am part of this trend), people have started making smallish 4-bets leaving themselves room … Read more…
This hand is from a while ago, but I just bought Poker Tracker Omaha and so have been looking through old hand histories: Full Tilt PokerPot Limit Omaha Ring gameBlinds: $2/$46 playersConverter Stack sizes:UTG: $179UTG+1: $56.70CO: $208.50Button: $1029.90Hero: $620.30BB: $572.50 … Read more…
A site called “Point Spreads” is now claiming that the AP superuser cheating has been going on for much longer than previously suspected: “Point-Spreads.com sources in Costa Rica are claiming the Absolute Poker Super-User account scam has been going on … Read more…
I can’t even think of a hand worth posting. Stars Million: Flop set under set to lose most of my chips, then AQ
On Thursday, I won this little $100 PLHE tournament with 6-person tables that Poker Stars runs every afternoon. For some reason most NLHE players don’t play PLHE tournaments, so this always has small fields. There were 18 runners in this … Read more…
Last night I attended a panel discussion hosted by Harvard Law School’s newly formed Global Poker Strategic Thinking Society. I hadn’t realized this at the time, but the discussion was actually part of a class taught by Professor Charles Nesson, … Read more…
I played a longer heads up session recently against the same opponent I mentioned in my recent post entitled, “Pwned :-(“. I ended up dropping about three buyins to him, which from what I’ve heard is fairly trivial for an … Read more…
An important part of any fixed limit game, where multiway pots are more common, is maximizing your equity by driving out other players. This is particularly true in split pot games, where you can dramatically increase your equity if you … Read more…