I’ve a run but successful home game for many years. It is, on the whole, my pleasure to run, but it is more than that. It’s my belief that private games are the grass roots of poker, and just as I have written about the duty of players in public games to make the game…
I continue my heavy grinding hours with back to back ten hour sessions, but a different Persuadeo shows up to each one. On day one I was at nearly my best. I pulled off a pretty spectacular three barrel, featuring the ole’ pot sized bet on the river to finally get a guy to release…
The long, slow downswing, against which, like the cancer it has been, I diagnosed, summarized, and prescribed some low stakes immersion therapy, was in part brought on by a lack of hours of $5 games at the Village. My absence, however, has had other effects besides a deleterious one for my bank balance. It turns…
I decide there is no time like the present for reinstating my work ethic, and head to the casino on what would have been an off day in the past. I feel great about my decision to abandon 5/10, and optimistic about where this will lead. I’ve been entitled and indifferent, and that’s no way…
My “Maximizing” challenge is up in one month. It has been a disaster. Instead of finding myself in a desired place of fiscal strength after six months of poker, I am back where I started nearly two years ago, and looking at some tough choices. I had placed something of a marker on last’s night…
Sometimes I feel like I need a tweak to my game, or perhaps a little extra preparation. Maybe I don’t even know what it is, but with a bigger game to come, I want a little warm up before the real thing. With the Coven dispersed and my eyes dry from the computer, an unscheduled…
It’s not all about you. Poker teaches many lessons, and the reasonable players among us learn that one quickly, go crazy all the time, or quit. At the games last night, the action was so sweet and heavy I conceived of a chip dispenser that could be installed, like an automatic shuffler in the table, to…
In a recent hand I played at 5/10 I was coolered but learned a valuable lesson. Against the same villain as in this interesting spot, I three bet a premium over a standard open and a call, and only picked up said villain, the original PFR. On J73cc, I cbet and was raised all in…
…is the year I read poker books again…. what will Applications change? …is my first year as a handgun owner… will I actually use it when needed? …is the year I put the screenplay on Blacklist… but is Amazon’s reformed sweatshop the incinerator it belongs in? …is the year I hit the USTA… how much…