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[…]
Category: session
When They Adjust
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[…]
Banker Error, Collect 200 bbs
As I’ve written before, the august Banker, Prince of the Village, has taken the tack of avoiding confrontations with me. This was a regrettable development, but who would blame him? He collects chips like interest from his adoring Smurf clients by just sitting in the games, and his invincible reputation[…]
The Gathering Dark and Stormy
While I assemble the requisite ingredients for Libation to Variance #1, as promised– including a week for the espresso beans to repose in the rum- there is nothing like a little premature relief from the runbad. Tonight I put in what can only be called a restrained session and version of[…]
Black Friday
I’m driving home through the dense, tufted fog with a crease so deep in my forehead that it is threatening to dislodge my eyeballs. After making one mistake all night and nearly bringing home 200 life sustaining bbs, without coolering anyone and playing extremely well, I lose almost all of[…]
It’s Getting Late, We Are Going to Gamble
So said Mr. Farha in one of those early, most magical years of High Stakes Poker. The combination of personalities, the dynamic of the hosts, and most critically, the lack of overproduction, which made the game seem real, accessible, full of people, and thus, fun, made those initial seasons of[…]
I’ve Had a Few
There were three crucial hands in last night’s session, but I’m going to focus on the final one, because it is the most subtle. In the first, I lost my nerve after being put into a tough spot right off the bat and took a line that lent me to being[…]
Delirious Hour
In the beginning, I used a detailed database to chart my opposition’s tendencies. A spreadsheet, with a name, a quick summary, and then street by street tendencies. I remember reading that Phil Ivey once kept a notebook of all this thoughts on poker, which he later lost and never bothered to[…]
Smurfs’ Revenge
I play unexpectedly in a small game tonight. I’m just trying to pass the time sleepless and to get something going, maybe take a bite out of the damage inflected yesterday. Unfortunately, I continue to run badly – I won’t even put this on twitter as I hate whining and[…]