Archive for August, 2008

Finding courage, I think, can be the hardest element of poker. In No Limit, that’s obviously on display when making the occasional all-in bluff, and everytime you call what you think is a bluff when you have a marginal hand (at best). But I’m thinking more of the courage that is required after you’ve had [...]

…or How to Observe Statistical Variance First Hand.
The last two days of poker play, I’ve gotten 9 hours and 4,733 hands in. These have been successful hours, although only at about .86 BB/100. So, this isn’t a complaint, just an interesting observation.
Today, I played 1160 hands and had QQ 14 times. 14 times seems high [...]

So as I said in my previous post, I’m experimenting with shoving 9 tables into one monitor screen, thanks to Poker Stars allowing table shrinkage. At first, I wasn’t sure that I was going to be able to keep up. I constantly felt like I was running behind. But after a few days, I adjusted [...]

So in July how did I spend my time?
80 hours – contract work/programming
~30 hours – carting the entire extended family to a massive array of doctors visits
20 hours – playing poker
but hey, I did play 20 hours of poker, right? I should probably be writing about that
The bad news is I couldn’t seem [...]

So various quick tidbits:

I managed to dig up $600 to deposit for the Poker Stars WCOOP bonus, which is nice having a $240 bonus to work towards. I always like having a tangible goal to work towards. I’m going to have to withdraw $600 to put it back where it belongs soon, but that won’t [...]