Playing poker is fun. However it can also get pretty cut throat. This is especially true of Texas Hold ‘Em. So, before you sit down to play a game, there are a few questions you ought to ask yourself. For starters, you need to be honest with yourself about why you are playing in any [...]
Brian Townsend is a Gambler and I love him for it. He’s holding 56s in this hand against the great Phil Ivey and decides to play it very aggressively. On the turn he makes a pair and an open-end straightdraw (to give him thirteen out against any pair really) pretty much drawing dead against 9T [...]
I’m running cold. In the last 3 days I’ve had a guy pull a ONE-OUTER on me to make a STRAIGHT FLUSH against my nut flush. I’ve lost flush over flush big pots twice with a jack high flush and a queen high flush, twice with only 3 flushcards on the board. Lost set over [...]
… at pokertables. I’ll give you the rundown of a hand I almost cried about. I have AK suited under the gun and I raise 4BB. I flop the nuts with QJT with two of my suit too so I’m on the royal draw on a jellyroll. I bet out knowing one guy behind me [...]
Twice a month I sit down in the restaurant of the casino I usually play at with a friend I met at the blackjack tables and now plays in the same poker room on a regular basis to talk poker. We discuss our results and talk about key losing and winning hands and about how [...]
Like every poker player, I dread the days on which I know I play bad, or on which I realize afterwards I was tilting without actually realizing it, thus losing way too much money due to donkeyplay. Anyway, last night was such a night. Playing $2/$5, luckily, so only losing about $200 in the process. [...]
I ate a steak at the poker table today, and I wish I hadn’t. Let me tell you a painful story: Walked in with about $2000 in my pocket, went straight for the 5/10 game, my favorite at the casino here. Started off playing aggressive, making button-raises, following through on the flop most of the [...]
I played 3 Multi-table-tournaments yesterday, simultaneously. I’ve been playing at Full Tilt Poker for a couple weeks now, mostly in the hopes of being able to do some games against the likes of Phil Ivey or Mike The Mouth Matusow — but enjoying the level of play there in general too… Until yesterday. I don’t [...]
A great Full Tilt Poker ad sure to please all fans of Mike “The Mouth” Matusow — the awesome thing is: Mike actually cooperated! “Only a donkey would make that call” AWESOME.
The art of (semi-professional) poker playing isn’t just playing your game right – it’s also finding the juicy games, with players willing to donk off large amounts of cash. The world is filled with juicy games – but it’s not always simple to find them… With years of experience looking for poker rooms all over [...]
