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You’re playing live poker and you just folded before the flop. You’ve got a minute or two, maybe longer, before you get more cards. What to do? What to do? You could watch TV. You could turn the volume up on your headphones. You might order a beverage, or converse with a player...
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Many of my conversations with my buddy Alex begin similarly:
Hi. Whatsup. How you doing.
It doesn’t matter who starts the initial hellos. All that matters is who ends them. If I start talking next, the conversation can start anywhere and go anywhere. If Alex starts talking next, it goes lik...
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The first time Andy slithered into our little snake pit, he had no chance. Not because he was drooping around like someone who had washed down his quaaludes with Jack Daniels, and not because he lacked basic card sense. There was no way to tell if he did or not. That’s because this was his fir...
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He really got me good on this one. I was all-in without a paddle. I was up shit creek and drawing dead. However you put it, it wasn’t pretty.
I was playing $40-80 limit hold’em at Lucky Chances. This was around 2002. Alex was at the next table, playing no-limit. He spoke to me with a han...
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[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 when it happ...
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I’m in Vegas right now doing a three-day coaching program with a new client. At the end of day one, we went downstairs to the poker room at the Venetian to play some poker in the same game, for mutual observation. The plan is that I watch him and take notes on things he does and doesn’t do so ...
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Here’s a hand I played in the big no-limit game at Lucky Chances. There was a guy in the game I’d never played with before, and he was giving lots of action. So far I’d played two pots against him. Both times I was on the button. Both times the river went check-check. Both times I turned o...
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(This article first appeared in BLUFF Magazine.)
How to Tilt
by Tommy Angelo
My mom used to tell me, “If it’s worth doing, it’s worth doing well.” This is such a profound and righteous philosophy. And I’ve stuck to it. For example, when I eat popcorn, I think it’s worth doing, so I do it...
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I’ve been rummaging through dozens of ancient folders on my hard drive, full of half-started articles and unexpanded ideas. I found a few unpublished finished works that I had totally forgotten about. “The Guiltless Gambler” is one of those, from about ten years ago. Enjoy!
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I was 14 years old in 1972 when astronaut Harrison Schmitt aimed a Hasselblad camera out the window of the Apollo 17 spacecraft on its way to the moon and took a photograph of the full earth from 25,000 miles up. NASA dubbed that photo “The Blue Marble”. It showed the world the world, with surp...
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So I played in a couple of live tournaments this week because the WSOP circuit is here in New Orleans. One thing I really like about live poker is the slow pace of things and the opportunity to really observe every hand closely. I find it helps force me to think through situations more fully and consequently, I often try to learn new games by playing them live first, when possibl ... (continued)
Let me start of by telling the story of Simpleme.. I got to know poker through a friend of mine who told me that he was gonna rent a studio paying it with his poker winnings every month. I started laughing and told him that gambling really was not healthy. ( FYI this same friend just had another 30.000$ week ) . When more people in my direct environment started playing poker, they convinced me to try ... (continued)
EPTPE obviously has tons of really great information stashed away within its’ vault. One of the most valuable things I have learned from the series and Tommy Angelo is about reciprocality and small edges. Essentially, any edge that we(as aspiring winning poker players) take that our opponents do not is going to earn us profit in the long run. Some examples of this are betting situations, tilt control an ... (continued)
(Disclaimer: This post isn’t about Shakespeare.) We often debate, especially as newcomers to the poker realm, what the most effective ways to learn better poker are. With little guidance I made one small choice early on as a 10NL player which I hope is shaping the rest of my poker career. I have been playing without a HUD . I recently just made a post about ‘Small Edges’ and how anything you do t ... (continued)
The Grinder’s Curse is alive and well. After posting a 1000 BB month in January. I’m winning like 43% at showdown for February. It’s ok. I don’t blame luck, or poor play, or variance. I blame my misfortune on the Gilmore Girls and the town of Esztergom, Hungary. Let me explain. I have a nice reliable 1999 Mercedes Benz C230 that despite the fact it’s become an aging starlet, has played her roll ... (continued)
