Session reports.
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 repeat. My database was not…
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 hope this post will soon…
On the night of my return to the local games after nearly three weeks on the road, I look for a soft landing at the Village. I have not played much poker in months. My games on the road were mostly short, breezy sessions accomplished as a sampling. Between travels, writing, and family, the coming…
This road trip has not turned out to be much about poker, but I have had a chance to determine what might or might not be good for future excursions. The Bear River Hotel and Casino may offer limited action, but it is a beautiful lodge and conveniently located for Redwoods and Coastal tourism. I…
I was tricked by an OMC type last night and he possibly saved a couple hundred dollars. On river of AQJx10, the grumpy old crab, out of position, faked a bet, then checked. I held three jacks, and checked behind conservatively. I knew he had a pair and a gutter the whole time, but did not…
I finally lost my mind last night. It started (well, it started in June, but that’s another story) when another poor fool shipped his gutter over my flopped straight after I potted the turn leaving no room for me to fold. He binked the mysterious three outer, the one I blocked, to the nuts, announcing,…
The other night I heard a faded but distinct second echo of the strategy post where I talked about applying cbetting principles on a board that favors the blinds. To be frank, when this hand started, I was tilted or more accurately, trying to control my tilt, so I may have been a bit blinkered. The runbad of…
I thought of this RC thread when I was put in a tough spot last night. In that forum hand, an iconic and classic situation, the answer is difficult to understand if you have been programmed into bet/folding as your strategy, but is in fact simple and clear: there are very few hands one should be continuation betting here,…
After such a crucial session as my Columbus Day, to go and hang with the clowns at a smaller game full of high hand chasers and bingo card screamers only to get bamboozled is deflating. In one hand that sums up my day and my second half of 2015 as well, an action player four bets all in…