On Grinding
I’ve never really been a grinder, one of those online poker players who plays 10+ tables at once, cursor and attention whizzing from monitor to monitor so quickly that they have only seconds to think...
View ArticleDidn’t See That Coming
I figured Villain’s river range was nuts/bluffs, and given that this was a backdoor draw and the flop draws missed, there’d be enough bluffs to warrant a call. I hadn’t counted on this: PokerStars...
View ArticleSolid Favorite Against the Nuts
I didn’t realize it at the time or I would have raised the flop, but this is one of those interesting PLO situations where my draw is a pretty solid favorite against the nuts: PokerStars Pot-Limit...
View ArticleGame Flow
I’m posting three hands tonight, all of them against the same Villain. I’d just stacked him for the second time, and after that he bought in for just 30 BB’s, won a sizable pot, and then started...
View ArticleWham, Bam, Thank You Ma’am
This was the first and only hand I played with Villain, he just sat with a random amount that was probably all he had in his account: PokerStars No-Limit Hold’em, $10 BB (2 handed) Hand History...
View ArticleDonking for Fun and Profit
PokerStars No-Limit Hold’em Tourney, Big Blind is t600 (6 handed) Hand History converter Courtesy of PokerZion.com Hero (t14702) UTG (t30344) MP (t15991) CO (t16405) Button (t34712) SB (t61552)...
View ArticleFloating the Flop Check-Raise
I have no idea what to make of his flop min-check-raise as the pre-flop raiser, but I seriously doubt he can stand a turn raise. I just don’t see him doing this with either 2 pair+ or a good draw. My...
View ArticleOverbet Ownage
First hand is a very relevant bit of recent history: PokerStars No-Limit Hold’em, $6 BB (2 handed) Hand History converter Courtesy of PokerZion.com Hero ($1153.70) Button ($752.10) Preflop: Hero is BB...
View ArticleUnderbet Ownage
PokerStars No-Limit Hold’em, $10 BB (2 handed) Hand History converter Courtesy of PokerZion.com Hero ($1000) BB ($3855.15) Preflop: Hero is Button with 8s, Ts. Hero raises to $30, BB calls $20. Flop:...
View ArticleDon’t Min-Raise Me, Bro
Also, fold the river: PokerStars No-Limit Hold’em Tourney, Big Blind is t80 (6 handed) Hand History converter Courtesy of PokerZion.com UTG (t1560) MP (t3290) CO (t6660) Hero (t4198) SB (t3839) BB...
View ArticlePeople Still Bluff Like This?
Villain’s hand looks so much like a busted draw that I was afraid I was getting leveled. I had to double-check the board to confirm that it really made no sense for him to play any value hand this way...
View ArticleRaising to Induce
PokerStars No-Limit Hold’em, $6 BB (2 handed) Hand History converter Courtesy of PokerZion.com Hero ($1078.40) BB ($2126.95) Preflop: Hero is Button with 7s, 9c. Hero raises to $18, BB calls $12. Flop:...
View ArticleThey Hate to Fold The Triples
…so overbet-overbet it is: PokerStars No-Limit Hold’em, $2 BB (5 handed) Hand History converter Courtesy of PokerZion.com UTG ($518.95) MP ($500) Button ($538.90) SB ($211.55) Hero ($1162.75) Preflop:...
View ArticleFour-Way All-In
BTN and SB both seem fishy, not just because of their stacks but because they are respectively 100/20 and 55/9, albeit over small samples. I felt like they’d both have a lot of random crap and I could...
View ArticleBrutal Disconnection
The field in the $1050 PokerStars Super Tuesday had been whittled down from 394 to 28. With 10 BB’s, I wasn’t in great shape, but I had a fighting chance. And then the internet at my apartment went...
View ArticleFastplaying Top Set
PokerStars Pot-Limit Omaha High, $1.00 BB (6 handed) Hand History converter Courtesy of PokerZion.com MP ($263.80) CO ($250) Button ($362.30) SB ($264.20) Hero ($250) UTG ($166.90) Preflop: Hero is BB...
View ArticleSlowplaying Top Set
In my recent poker strategy article, Slowplaying, I emphasize how much a failure to build the pot can cost you when you slowplay a huge hand in NLHE. One of the exceptions I discuss is when you have an...
View ArticleSunday Nittaments
I was tweating yesterday about some big folds that I made in my Sunday tournaments. At least one person expressed interest, so here are the two biggest. Villain was 11/8, and I’d been reasonable to...
View ArticleMixing It Up With Early Position Raisers
Many Tight-Aggressive players do a poor job of mixing up their ranges for raising from Early Position. This means that you can often identify boards on which your perceived range is stronger than...
View ArticleMixing Up Your Early Position Range
Yesterday, I posted a few hands where I exploited Early Position raisers with transparent ranges. Here’s an example of of the kind of play you can make to combat players who try to exploit you in this...
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