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This post will be in two parts: Towards a definition of Reflexive Practice. My initial foray into online poker. 1 Towards a definition of Reflexive Practice. Before I launch into the blog post I would like to say that my thinking is emerging and evolving and that the purpose of this blog to record my thoughts on theory and practice as they are unfolding. ... <a href="http://www.deucescracked.com/blogs/ukphoenix/72051-First-Steps-in-Reflexive-Practice-in-Poker">(continued)</a>
Inspired by " Search and Destroy ", I’ve been doing some homework on my HEM db. On the one hand I’m trying to identify my (many) leaks and on the other hand I’m trying to systematically go through hands of other players, make notes, observe lines they are taking etc trying to build up my intuition about what a certain sort of player might do in a particular circumstance. All the data is there, I just need to do more homework…
Another interesting change lately came about as a result of watching “Runninng the Streets” and a couple of subsequent conversations with shuttle about stealing and protection betting. It’s clear that these are both real weaknesses in my game. I haven’t been stealing enough and secondly I haven’t been betting for protection in situations where I have s ... <a href="http://www.deucescracked.com/blogs/huntse/57281-Learning-about-protection-a-k-a-Turning-into-a-LAG-maniac">(continued)</a>
OK so my recent run of success couldn’t possibly last and today has been a bit of a bump. I made a couple of big mistakes, had a bit of bad luck and lost 4 buyins. Interestingly I noticed that when I have been making money I have been playing pretty tight. When I am inclined to make mistakes, before the mistakes I’m being laggy. I start of being successfully laggy, then have the big blowup. I need to be aware of this and tighten up when I find that my session stats are looking quite laggy.
I was going through a losing streak which started with just run bad, but developed pretty quickly into play bad unfortunately. Over the last two or three sessions I’ve really turned it around by trying to focus on the basics and in particular something BalugaWhale said in a microstakes forum post : The key points I have to hammer are DONT PAY OFF and GET VALUE. That it!! So that’s the thing. I’m t ... <a href="http://www.deucescracked.com/blogs/huntse/54461-What-Baluga-said">(continued)</a>
First of all, if you don’t have any idea what Dominion is (but you enjoy board/card games), stop reading this and go watch our recent video introducing the game . Now, those of you who are still reading are probably interested in some more advanced strategy, so I’ll serve some up for you. I played a match recently that I found to be full of particularly interesting strategic plays ... <a href="http://www.deucescracked.com/blogs/djsensei/54281-A-Strategic-Dominion-Match-Review">(continued)</a>
Heh, this started out as a whinge and ended in a meaningful conclusion that, to be honest, I wasn’t expecting. http://blog.obadonke.com/2010/08/28/why-limit-holdem-is-such-hard-work/ In summary, here’s why I think Limit Hold’em is hard work: defining narrow ranges in Limit is hard and the rewards for doing so in any one hand are relatively small but if you don’t put in the effort, you will be a loser well before the long run.
Hey. I just wanted to introduce myself. I’m a big fan of poker and have been playing for a year come next month. I’ve been able to move up from 2NL all the way up to 10NL and taking shots at 25NL. Then after some life issues withdraw it all and realize I have to build it back up from the ground up. I’ve been a member of 2+2 since last October. While it is useful for posting hands, that ad ... <a href="http://www.deucescracked.com/blogs/sky/31671-Hi-my-name-is-Bob">(continued)</a>
Here is one for the “know when you’re beat†series. Remember the villain who I posted about making a great read that I had his 6 low badugi beat? Same villain here in this hand. I know this guy, he’s very tight and had I taken even two seconds to stop and ask myself what his raise meant I’d have tossed the hand. Soon as he flipped it over I realized WHO it was and thought “y ... <a href="http://www.deucescracked.com/blogs/432a/23581-Should-have-been-an-easy-fold-">(continued)</a>
I am currently in the session and I think the topic and examples are very interesting. I do have some trouble with hands in the range, like I mentioned. I find it hard to discuss and explain in English, so I thought doing it this way might be better. I do think we are spewing a lot of money by ‘defending’ with small suited connectors, f.e. 53s, 54s. I am not sure about the math of the odds we flop an ... <a href="http://www.deucescracked.com/blogs/mattiesmat/23301-Hey-FTS">(continued)</a>