Courtesy of my friend pimpofpoker.

"They're dropping like players in a PokerStars freeroll!"

Starting with about 7,500 FPPs and absolutely no cash, I now have $211 in my Stars account. It's not that difficult. Here's the formula (courtesy of Oscar, who found a thread on 2+2 of a guy who did the same with stunning success ( Read more... )

Take a look at this hand.

When scribe11 raises on the river, he leaves himself with T80, then folds. If he was bluffing, why would he not move in there? I think it's because he didn't want to show his hand. But that's also silly, because if he was dumping to his opponent, it would just look like a bad bluff.

Thoughts?

Semi-taken from a BARGE list post.

A guy on 2+2 posts about the pitfalls of playing online while drunk. He posts this graph in his post. Then an enterprising young comedian adds stick figures to the graph, and it comes out like this:


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Just found out about this. Apparently, Chip Reese died this morning. Very sad indeed.

This afternoon, Russ and I recorded a radio show with Dr. Alan Schoonmaker, Poker Psychology for holdemradio.com. We had a good time during the hour-long interview. I always feel like I stumble over my words whenever I do any sort of public speaking, even if it is just on the radio with a limited audience. And this one, as far as I know, is only ( Read more... )

OK, I do this sometimes. It's fun. Especially when I'm winning.

I defended the BB from an aggressive player with 53h. The flop came with a 3 and two hearts. I'm not going anywhere. I end up rivering a 5. Here's the talk that followed.

Obviously, several hands were cut.

( fun with chat )

$2/$4 6-max HE on Absolute ( Read more... )

I don't want to look up the transcripts, but there were two instances tonight ( Read more... )

During a game when the usual whiner complains about being the victim ofshennagigans.

Player 1: See! Tell me that's not rigged! f'n river on this place!

Player 2: That is not rigged.

Player 2: That is a pair of queens.