This was crazy. I’m playing low stakes online poker, on the Ignition platform with random opponents, to kill time and … More
Tag: Occam’s Razor
Strategic Thinking Simplified
I saw this nugget on Twitter: Countless underground live grinders agonize over large turn & river bets. The operative idea … More
Biff! Bam! Pow!
In poker’s long run, every high volume player gets what they deserve. Long-term winnings play winning poker. Long-term losers play … More
Straight Man
A few days ago, I picked up a novel at the local library, on the staff recommendations shelf… Straight Man, by … More
Ace High Has to be Good Here
Last night… private house game… I have A♠ 7♠ on the button. The flop was K♠ Q♥ 4♠, giving me … More
Three Mistakes
The night was going extremely well. I’d won a very large pot and more than tripled my starting stack. I … More
Yikes!
A few months ago, I wrote “Hashtag: They Always Have It,” describing several hands from a poker weekend at Harrah’s … More
Facing a Shove on the River With Just One Pair
NOTE: This entry was originally posted on a different site on January 3, 2017 and has been slightly edited prior … More
Hashtag: They Always Have It
I just returned from a weekend poker trip to New Orleans. There were eight guys on this trip, one of … More