In Texas Holdem poker, the experts teach that there are two – and only two – reasons for betting. First…
Pocket Aces in Weird Spaces
It was Friday night, which means a low-stakes, live Texas Holdem cash game. After a frustrating first hour, my stack…
PLO update, part 4
Another update to my online low-stakes PLO play. I continue to make plenty of mistakes, but overall winning just a…
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…
How Does He Do It?
It seems like I’ve been card dead all night. 4 hours into a home game, my stack sits at 105…
PLO Equities, Part 3
In two recent posts, first here and then here, I summarized the equity at the time of all-in bets (before the…
Angle Shooting at the Bike
In a recent post about angle shooting, I described several deceptive tactics that violate the unspoken norms that hold poker…
PLO Equities, Part 2
In a recent post, I summarized the equity at the time of all-in bets (before the river card) in low…
PLO Equities
In my last post, I compared Pot Limit Omaha to Major League Baseball, noting that equity percentages and variance in…
PLO is MLB
I’ve started playing Pot Limit Omaha (PLO) at the very low stakes, online. PLO offers a nice change of pace…
