A Perfect Storm

The title to this post pays homage to Hurricane Florence, which made landfall near Wrightsville Beach, NC (about 140 miles … More

Queens

When should you play pocket queens like they are the prey-flop nuts?  When should you not? But first, I digress… … More

Now I Get to Eat the Cookies

Sometimes I try extra hard to cultivate an image as the tightest player at the table.  This comes somewhat naturally, … More

AWD

The most popular low stakes private poker game is $1-2 no limit Texas Holdem.  In the small blind, when no … More

Bonomo bucks get chopped

In my last post, I coined the phrase “Bonomo bucks” after my successful investment in Justin Bonomo’s entry in the … More

Bonomo Bucks

Sklansky bucks:  Built on David Sklansky’s Fundamental Theorem of Poker, this is the theoretical amount of money you win in a … More

Reverse Reverse Tell

“Why such a small raise,” I asked.  The villain, who for purposes of this blog I’ll call “Lee,” had open-raised … More

Tantalus, Greek God of Temptation, Part 2

IMy previous post focused on the physiological effects of excitement, and the attendant difficulty of shifting emotionally from “I just flopped … More

Tantalus, Greek God of Temptation

Think of a familiar TV or movie scene where a known alcoholic, who has worked hard to stay on the … More

Hard Stop

As an experiment last week, I announced upon sitting down to play poker that I had a hard stop four … More