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Poker Articles on 08/2005
Wednesday, Aug 31 2005
And another lightbulb goes off - Youre familiar with the GAP concept, and you know what a LAG is, but do you know what you get when you COMBINE the two? A way to work through being card dead. I always assumed that when pundits squawked about the early level exception to the GAP rules, I...
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Monday, Aug 29 2005
Making good decisions... - Friday MTT 10k starting chips, 100/200 blinds. 32 players, pays 6. first two levels 30 minutes.There is EITHER a single rebuy OR a single add on of 10k at the end of level 2. Strange, but it seems obvious to me that I want to play Über tight and just ta...
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Saturday, Aug 27 2005
What's your point? - I played in a local game last night, the write up of which Ill do a bit later. But there was a big hand and the two players were really brain locked thinking through the moves and deciding what to do. It was very exciting. Then, someone says, why are y...
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Thursday, Aug 25 2005
Mini-step merciful end - Finished 3rd in level 3 and had to recycle. I got kicked back to level 1 when I got beaten by a straight. But man, here is the best. I lost level 1 when my trips Tens lost to a ROYAL FLUSH ON THE RIVER. Good part, I got $4 for 6th place. I played li...
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Tuesday, Aug 23 2005
The Tale of Tighty McTight - Youre playing solid poker at a 1-2 NL ring game. Its a table of game publishers at an empty table of the Hyatt restaurant, which is closed. A couple of players, including the host, play a lot of poker. A few of the others are simply there to lose mon...
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Wednesday, Aug 17 2005
Get two Kings, and make them figth each other! - Back in ye olden days, Kings ruled the land. And if you had two Kings, well, ye were in good shape. Until he came... I had played a couple of SnG at Noble. (Its hard right now to resist the jackpot carrots they are waving around.) I had lost a good de...
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Tuesday, Aug 16 2005
Pride and Prejudice - Now that I have calmed down, I am taking stock in my frustrations. Why are they there? Is the playing field not level with the deal of the cards? Why do I feel at a disadvantage. Then it hit me. Statistics. Let me explain. You are sitting at a table...
Sit N Go hell - 5 Sit N Gos, in the money ONCE. It got so bad, that I got a guy to bet all in with a flush when I had the nut flush and he hits a ONE outer on the river for the straight flush. WTF? I play hard, I dont get any chips. I play slow on one lousy hand and ...
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Friday, Aug 12 2005
A question to ANYONE who has insight - I play in a monthly MTT. 40 people. stacks start shallow at 100. The blinds start at 1/2 and go up through 5/10 for the first 5 levels. You get in a good 3-4 rotations and play 8 handed during this time. After that, the blinds start going up much fast...
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Thursday, Aug 11 2005
I wish I was on medication - So I could justify the worst play I made since I started playing. JJ in LP and I raise it to 4xBB. 3 CALLERS!, 2 of which are the blinds. The flop is QQ2 3 checks and I go ALL IN (they all checked to me). Can I do anything lamer? What a ig-nor-amous I ...
Not my night in the barrel - Part 1Played in a Sng (11 players) last night. 5 were noobz, so the blinds started non-aggressive. This gave me time to scope out the 5 other real players. Two I knew prior, one played slowly but was not afraid to move all-in when he hit a flop (late...
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Monday, Aug 08 2005
Nuts to you - Played in the weekly online tournament with the Detroit poker club on Sunday night. If you recall, last week I was bubble boy. Well, I was more confident this week as the game was Omaha 8OB. I dont consider myself great at this game, but I am competent...
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Saturday, Aug 06 2005
Hey, there's a casino here! - Greektown... Greekotwn? Greek-block! - Tim Allen Yes, Greektown. The one block area of Detroit with its own name. A dozen or so greek restaurants and an indoor pedestrian zone, which with much pomp and circumstance, was converted to the Greektown Casi...
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Thursday, Aug 04 2005
Tilt revisited - I am going to return to a phrase I coined earlier this year, reverse tilt. I consider this a psychological leak as apposed to a technical leak in my game. It happens after I win a hand and I set my mind on being the table captain. When I do this, I pla...
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Wednesday, Aug 03 2005
Got Tilt? - Man, did I play lousy last night. Dropped $10 at low limit ring holdém and another 2 bucks playing omaha 8OB. I love omaha 8OB, mostly because I know what NOT to do. But for some reason, last night especially, I did it. I even called river bets in lim...
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Monday, Aug 01 2005
The boy on the plastic bubble - 3 table MTT last night. Pays 6 places, I am in 6th with 8 left. The two shorter stacks both double up. Then someone makes a fatal blunder. There are now 7 left and I am the short stack. I fold AJo with two players in before me. I fold AQs when a play...
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