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, as another one did in the forums just the other day. Yet the challenges were relatively […]
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 ambitions of a 10k month. Inevitable runbad ensued, but he even wisely and correctly folded […]
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 all night. He makes it $20, and Gargamel, our favorite light dimmer at the Village […]
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 be flat called profitability given a certain “set” of conditions. Unfortunately, set mining is not hard strategy […]
An interesting series of posts appeared on Red Chip which underscored how the game really works right here at the $5 level, in the smoke-traced dungeons of cards and crappy coffee, as well as confirming much of what I wrote about in my long (but based on discussion, still not long enough) dissection of the Cardner – Malmuth conflict. As I briefed in Less Known Poker Truths, and not […]
The dust-up between Dr. Patricia Cardner and Mason Malmuth looks dormant. Celebrity skirmishes are usually fun to watch- especially when destiny brings competitors uncomfortably close to reality. Abe Limon, High Priest of L.A. poker, attempted to act for Fate last month, but even he cannot release the statue’s tears or make the lame walk every time. Unfortunately, this fight was never on par with the great ones. Ken […]
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 out I’m mostly an unknown on Friday when I play the small game […]
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 (stacks were only about 90 bbs to start). In evaluating a three […]
Short term results spread over months are hard enough to take, but a single evening of negative convergence can be terrible on the mind, especially when every hand is a buy in. The image of Mason Malmuth in lotus position and a loin cloth, floating on a deck of cards, is probably not going to keep you as emotionally stable as you might think it would. In […]