[This article originally appeared in BLUFF Magazine.] Man. Talk about giving away the story in the title. I didn’t know what to call this one. I could have called it “A Really Neat Hand, Seriously, I Mean It.†Or I could have called it “Now I’ve Seen Everything†which is how I felt ... Read More
On February 1st 2010, I came off my worst downswing of my poker career. I decided that I needed some long introspection and what better way to take a deep look into myself than to write and to put it out there. Along the way, I had some amazing experiences in poker in the last year and I hope you guys reading it also enjoyed the ride a bit. This post is just gonna be a bit of live poker, first from the beginning of the month ... <a href="/blogs/bellatrix/55231-One-year-blogging">(continued)</a>
There’s no “theme” to this blog this time. Bunch of stuff happened last week, nothing super exciting, but all worth mentioning. -> I went to the Pokercast meetup at the NAPT at the Bike on Friday. I did try on 2 occasions to qualify via the satellite to the satellite to the NAPT, but didn’t make it. But the 3/6 7game mix was fun. I ran over the table in the draw games (Badugi, 2-7TD), broke even on the O8 (no fold pre) and Pine ... <a href="/blogs/bellatrix/45281-Vacillation">(continued)</a>
It’s been a fairly quiet week on the online poker front for me. I mean, I was amazed to see that FTP has draw games now and I have been wasting some of my time trying to achieve gold star status at the Badugi tables, but not really grinding, since only about 1 or 2 tables at my stakes ever get going. Also, I’m still fairly new at Badugi, so I can’t really multitable as I’m still wondering i ... <a href="/blogs/bellatrix/44311-All-the-people-in-this-room-poker-ruined-their-life-">(continued)</a>
I used to play a pub league, small 20 man sit and go format. Not a bad game actually. No concept of ICM (them or I to be honest) but a good structure, deep stacks and a few canny players in the mix. Thinking about this little exploit still makes me smile: It was final table, 8 handed and I am 7th, can double up to 3rd with about 14 big blinds. I’m in the small blind. It folds round to me and I raise 2.5bb wi ... <a href="/blogs/ron0914/6691-Ron0914-s-Book-of-Tells">(continued)</a>