I was watching Live at the Bike last night, where LA grinder and LATB commentator JJ de la Garza was gettin’ busy. He’s a sharp looking guy, appropriately and comfortably dressed for the poker battle. His hair is tied up in a knot, poker samurai style. JJ seems a bit hot-blooded, antsy. He[…]
Category: strategy
Nice Hand
I’m wary of sharing too much non-basic strat in the forums. It’s overkill. First of all, most of these guys don’t really even require it to beat low stakes poker. Second, with all the time I put into finding and creating it, I don’t need to pass it on like some[…]
The Big O, Man
The home game has shrunk in numbers. Interest in poker ebbs and flows, so while I have taken this development as a harbinger of something, it was not for the end of the game necessarily. In fact, the game itself is as good as ever and certainly plays more excitingly[…]
Investigation
There’s a lot I could say about this hand, too much really, but I am not in the mood for pedantic poker piffle. Hopefully I can knock this out without trouble.These spots that involve multiple concepts and reward very strong play, from beginning to end, pop up from time to time,[…]
Gargamel: If You’re Going To Fuck Me, Don’t Fuck Yourself, Too
In which Gargamel explains his side of the hand. After years of endless braying, D’artagnan had enough. He looked at his stats one evening and was embarrassed. He was capable of playing better and now he would. This week started out great for him and he upped his hours with the[…]
Fat Feet, Cakes, and Ducats: d’Artagnan’s Hand
Persuadeo.nl welcomes d’Artagnan’s first post.Poker is a learned man’s game. We accumulate experience and become professors in our own minds, postulating all sorts of convoluted rationalizations for the ways we choose to play. So here’s one.Early position raiser, Free Lunch Guy, a portly and affable reg, has been raising light[…]
No Gamble, No Future
I have a very strong idea about how I want to play and I acknowledge examples of my mistakes in posts and in the forums, but one whole area of NLHE is giving me a lot of grief right now. Pairs that are likely behind to a preflop raise can[…]
Twilight of the Idols
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[…]
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[…]