Archive for the 'Live Poker' Category

After not getting enough sleep, working for a couple hours and then taking a mid-afternoon nap, I finally got my lazy ass down to the Borgata around 7:30pm Friday night.
When I arrive there is 1 table of 2/5 PLO going. I sit and buy in for $500. Its 6-8 handed for about 4 [...]

I hate getting up early, so I usually leave late/arrive super late for these trips. Today I was up at 10am and out of the house by noon, a time that I hoped would be good enough to beat the DC traffic driving up from North Carolina to Atlantic City.
I did ok, but not [...]

I wanted to post something of substance here, because, well, I rarely do
Bond18, a mod of the 2+2 MTT Strategy forum, has been posting a great series of tournament articles. The most recent one is one that i need to pay significant attention to, as bet sizing post flop is deifnitely a [...]

I’d let out a deep breath, but I’m worried about the huge cloud of dust it might create from this here blog.
Let’s see…summer has ended, the kids are back in school, I’ve cleared about three jobs off of my freelance plate, and even managed to work in a vacation. After my roller coaster in early [...]

So, I’ve been on another unplanned break from the tables for the last couple of weeks, after my run of SnGs saw the ol’ bankroll yo-yo from just shy of $200 down to $90, then to $130, and now back down to $60 or so. One of these days, I’ll run it high enough to [...]

…but unfortunately, little of it to do with poker. Note that I didn’t say “none”.
Things on the freelance side are good, and my “real” job saw me shipped out to Anaheim for a week in the middle of the month. No kids along for the ride, and besides, my days were packed, so Disneyland [...]

Now that poker has seemingly slipped from “part-time job” to “hobby” status for me, I’m having a lot more fun with it. Gone are the pressures (and frustrations) of shuffling money between a dozen different sites, and instead, I’ve gone back to taking my small monthly stipend and seeing how long I can make it [...]

Here are all the semi-interesting hands from the main event with the exception of the bust hand which is below. I am now very sure that I indeed made a mistake in not reraising that flop. Once that mistake was made I am pretty happy with the turn play though. I needed [...]

Here is the bust out hand. I ran into Varkonyi on the way out and he didn’t think I played it too badly. What do you think?
Hero has 17K in chips. I haven’t played a hand in a while and should have a somewhat tight image.
Villain has at least ~35K maybe more. [...]

I forgot to mention yesterday that I was going to the local casino to get in some live play before the main event. I am so used to four tabling with the pot size right there that I wanted to get some actual chips in front of me and play. They only offer [...]