I don’t like to publish strategy, but here are a few thoughts and prayers.
Players leaving cash for tournaments don’t make a boom. Vibes won’t predict the cards. Hiding buy-ins by posting only cashes does work, though! Data isn’t theory, but even serious players fall for it and stunt their growth. In other words, the current Poker Dark Age continues. It’s an interesting question: How do you know you’re…
It’s a little past 5:30 pm here at a small casino in Nowheresville. I am on a brief trip to see the family. The local television is advertising MiniKiss, a cover band featuring four dwarves in full makeup: that’s one way you know you are indeed in Nowheresville. More importantly, I’ve just called down a…
Life, they say, comes at you fast. Between my own problems and my interest in other games, I have not had much time for the challenge. I’m only two thirds of the way through after a fast start. Live poker, unlike life, comes at you slow. Part of that is a lie, though: I have…
Call it halftime: I am taking a month off to look after family, so the 100 hour challenge lives on in thought and writing until June. I did put in a midnight session in Medford, collecting my usual toll. Before clocking out, I heard some interesting gossip about the scene and how one Brad Booth…
At some point Berkey or someone with poker’s attention floated the prop bet of moving down, way down, and playing 1/3 live NL for a bearable time and to demonstrate a certain win rate, I think one hundred hours and ten bbs per hour, respectively. One can make the standard assumptions, but the truth is…
Is poker coaching for everyone? After all, there are sources of free information. Low-cost training sites. YouTube experts (and even some real experts out there, too.) Hey – if you don’t want to read this document but want to talk to me, persuadeo@gmail.com is fine. There’s a Discord group to get a feel for things, too.…
This tweet caught my eye, if not my ear, because it seemed like a genuine question and not just engagement bait. The answers provided were not so great. Let’s point out a few obvious things: A big name is a big name because they accomplished something in poker. They probably have some part of the…
This isn’t a singular tweet; the particular player who wrote it doesn’t matter and there are a thousand tweets like his. In fact, he’s probably a great guy and you’d like him. However, he is what we would call a Poker Consumer, because he has swallowed all the myths management has told and sold him.…