Hard to come up with a poker post these days but I have one. It won’t win awards or surprise but it is one of those things that is nice to reinforce from time to time. Read more…
OK, that is a rule used in casinos everywhere. On another level it is a pile of fertilizer. And we certainly use it from blog to blog to grow our view on the fairness of life, poker, and the voting on reality shows. Read more...
Yup, I'm stealing from P.T. Barnum. Sucker and Stud8 player are interchangeable terms. I don't think there is a flavor of poker that attracts worse players. Write down this term: scoop. Belay that. Capitalize it and turn on bold and underline. SCOOP! Read more…
I want to talk about the part the books don't cover. Stud, like other poker flavors, is deceptively simple. Those riverboat gamblers could teach it to a rich planter in a few minutes. At least as long as Mike Sexton isn't there to throw in, “…and a lifetime to master.” Read more…
My opportunity to pleasure a women these days looks uphill toward slim and none. So, when the chance comes, I am in. Read more…
I've been a bit lax about posting but based on what's flowing through my RSS reader I'm not alone. About the only one's with consistent posting are the ones who are more SEO mavens than bloggers. I see their repeating headers and tell the reader to mark them as read. I should just drop their feed but every so often I find something interesting. Read more…
Yes, I am sounding like a Jewish mother. Actually, the girl has another Jewish mother. That would be Waffles. OK, now that the shudders have died down and the folks monitoring the seismic charts are left scratching their head… Read more…
That usually a modifier to Hold’em. The idea is they chase but then catch at a rate that causes one’s blood pressure to peak. In Mediterranean types, it leads to broken keyboards and flying mice making cracks in the wallboard. Seeing that I’m partial to MS Keyboards and Logitech track balls, it wouldn’t be cost effective to join them. Read more…
When I started playing HORSE, it was more will than skill. People talk about their better/weaker games in creating a best of five outlook. Frankly, I didn’t have a single one to call my own. I was uniformly mediocre in all five. The first to develop was stud and that became a ring game I'd play. Read more…
I talked about that yesterday for stud play. I’ve gotten to the ‘right’ way by stumbling and dragging myself to this position. It is the opposite of rationality based on other games and blinds. In no-limit, bet sizing rules make it wrong to price in things like flush draws. Many of the bad beat blogs are about the folks who didn’t respect the pot odds offered. But, in tournament play, I’m not one to really knock it. Sooner-or-later, at-some-point all tournament play is donk play. Are those that implement it sooner than the prudent that far from the true path? That isn’t the case when we talk ring games. And the ideas that work at limit Hold’em with its three betting rounds confuse those who play stud with its five. Read more…
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