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Poker Articles on 05/2005
Monday, May 30 2005
Optimize your Win Rate and Get in the Zone - One of the few good things about getting up there in years, you learn your tendencies and hopefully can anticipate them. One of mine is I tend to make the same mistakes several times before learning no to eat the cheese in the mousetrap. Recently, I have...
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Friday, May 27 2005
Back to the world of Limit! - Well obviously I had my little run with Heads-Up SnGs. But after I left Bodog I stopped that. Too much up and down for me right now. Although I do like it and may play some at some point. But after I went to work on this bonus over at Absolute I went ...
I'm (almost) in - My name is Wes and I am a Priceline junkie. I have booked the vehicle and the hotel via blind bidding and appear to have saved a lot of money. Of course, I may be checking into a rat hole on Wednesday with no hope of refund but thems the breaks. Bad Blo...
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Thursday, May 26 2005
Absolute Update - Well, I finished the required hands to get my PSO points over at pokersourceonline. But have only cleared $30 of the bonus. But the tables there are pretty tight, so Im considering just cashing out since I got my points, and moving somewhere else. I ha...
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Tuesday, May 24 2005
Gracious sakes - I am a gracious host. It would be in bad form for one to win a tournament one hosts. The problem is my poker skills are so immense it is sometimes difficult to throw a match without making it blatantly obvious. To remedy that, I often handicap myself. ...
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Monday, May 23 2005
Orca Poker! - Well, I have some cool news for me. My blog is being featured over at www.OrcaPoker.com There is a whole profile page and a link to this blog. (Maybe you are looking from that link right now, lol) But its pretty cool, so I will try and keep the blog mu...
Moving around again... - Well, after a short stint on Bodog Poker, I decided to pack up and move again. There are almost no limit games there, and I took some pretty bad beats in those Heads-Up SnGs and decided to cut my losses before I blow everything. Its tough taking beats i...
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Saturday, May 21 2005
Reading Hands in NL Play - Reading opponents hands is one of the key poker skills that will transform someone into a winning play. When I first started playing poker and reading books, I would always flip to the Hand Reading section, looking for that silver bullet that would expla...
Almost there - The flight is booked.The van is reserved.Maudie is ordering a tee-shirt for me.I have not decided on a hotel yet. Where is everbody else staying?I am primimg the liver trying to get back to 1990 levels of saturation and suspension. Everything is almost r...
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Sunday, May 15 2005
Vegas, Baby - I spent last week in Vegas for a trade show, but more importantly I had the chance to play some NL in live action games. This was my first NL casino action and I wanted to share a few observations in comparing the live action to online play. I would lov...
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Wednesday, May 11 2005
Crave Signs 7 Top Poker Pros - http://www.casinobuzz.com i-Newswire, 2005-05-11 - Howard Lederer - Known as the "Professor of Poker," Lederer has quickly become one of the most respected players around. Lederer holds 13 major poker titles including the World Series of Poker and World P...
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Sunday, May 08 2005
Kyls Bill part 2 not expected to be a hit - http://www.casinobuzz.com Industry leaders have predicted the latest attempt by US Senator John Kyl to introduce legislation to outlaw the funding of online gambling accounts is doomed to failure.Senator John Kyl will make another attempt to introduce a b...
Which Site is Softer -- Party or Poker Room? - One of the huge advantages of playing at a Party Poker affiliated site or at Poker Room is that you can select to auto-import hand histories into your Poker Tracker database (if you do not know what Poker Tracker is, see my post Are you at a Disadvantage?...
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Saturday, May 07 2005
Texas Hold 'Em is newest game in town - http://www.casinobuzz.com Over the sound of talking in the Elks Lodge Tuesday evening was the distinctive sound of poker chips clicking together as local poker enthusiasts tossed chips into the pile or toyed with chips in their stacks. Tuesdays and Thursd...
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Friday, May 06 2005
Halfway There - The poblem with playing the bad beat tables is that you have to have two great hands involved in a showdown. I have not been playing poker seriously for very long (about 18 months now) but I have played a lot of hands. Not once in that time do I remembe...
Heads up, NBC to air national tourney - http://www.casinobuzz.com WELCOME TO televised poker in a new and exciting format. On Sundays this month, NBC will broadcast the "National Heads-Up Poker Championship" - a $20,000 buy-in event featuring one-on-one matchups between the world's best poker p...
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Thursday, May 05 2005
2 fires in 4 days suspicious - http://www.casinobuzz.com Two fires in four days at a Salt Lake business that supplies materials needed for Texas Hold 'em poker games has investigators concerned. The latest incident at Cards, Chips and More, 163 E. 300 South, was Tuesday about 9:30 p.m...
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Tuesday, May 03 2005
Home Game with Blood - The drive to Greer flew by even though its uphill all the way. Work had been an unwelcome distraction all day, a chore even more odious than usual. On the path to the Upstate of South Carolina, I prepared the traditional way-by listening to AC/DC. The...
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Monday, May 02 2005
Piece of a Pro - FOR A LIMITED TIME - GET A 100% DEPOSIT BONUS AT FULL TILT POKER! If you havent heard of Full Tilt Poker, it is an online poker site started by 10 Poker Pros. As such they have come at the online poker thing from a bit different angle and it is a very f...
Get Player Hand Histories in your Sleep - FOR LIMITED TIME - GET 100% DEPOSIT BONUS FROM FULL TILT POKER! I know I talk about PokerTracker a lot, but it is such a revolutionary tool and has become such a necesary part of my weekly playing that I keep coming up with new points that I hope others ...
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