warning:  this entry comes from a fairly tired brain, so the vocab used isn't too non-poker friendly ( Read more... )

i haven't played a lot of cards in 2015 - ten sessions in total, and four of those sessions have been in the past two weeks.  Prior to that the last time was in february, and like the last time i was forced to take a break for a few months about three years ago, my playstyle has adjusted and i think in a good way ( Read more... )

in about 2.5 hours i had already built up my initial $200 stack to $1000 because people were being pretty stupid against me - none of it was me getting lucky or them getting unlucky, it was all things like, "i just flopped the nut straight" or "i flopped the nut flush" and i would somehow get three-way all-in action. I also had AA twice and ( Read more... )

to get to the poker room, you have to go past a bouncer and up an elevator where both the poker room and one of the night clubs exist side by side.  There's enough separation between the two that it's not a big deal, when i was playing i never really noticed any outside noise ( Read more... )

i played this hand a few days ago and i wanted to write it down before the full details drift away in my brain.

under the gun, I look down and see 10 10. i don't remember the suits anymore. it's been a few days. sue me. i'm not a professional. I raise to $15. everyone folds around except for the button. i've played against him before, but ( Read more... )

so last weekend i played in a PLO bar game, the first time that i've played PLO in a while. I used to love playing it, but that particular game started to get too big because even though it was 1/2, people could double-straddle on the button for $10 and that made the game huge. They've since removed that, so i thought as a change of pace i'd give ( Read more... )

so i won a tough $700 pot a couple of hours ago, and i'm not convinced i played it right.

I had $850 in front of me - a recovery of being stuck for a good four hours, so profit was only $50. I was probably about the fifth biggest stack on the table, which says something about the $1/$2 games at Harrah's.

a black guy i had never seen before ( Read more... )

there were two poker hands that happened this past weekend that are worthy of logging. The first one was a bizarre hand in my mind because the player was kind of weird. The second one was a brilliant hand where i lost a huge pot, but i think i made the right judgement call based on the player i was playing.
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i guess it's a given that because i'm passionate about poker that i would be passionate about this game. it's easily become my favorite tabletop game because of the blend of strategy mixed with high psychology.

i played the game for the first time in september and i liked it so much that i raved about it and decided to buy it. i brought it ( Read more... )

there's actually been a whole lot going on in the past week or so, but a lot of it is not stuff i feel comfortable actually talking about. not because it's all bad - one thing in particular was rather Awesome, but it's also fairly personal not just for me but for someone else and therefore is not the sort of thing that i want to put out on ( Read more... )