Poker texts

Poker star is no fan

admin — Fri, 19 Jun 2009 07:40:13 +0000

Ewww, professional poker players ARE trash.

Also, that JAZZ brunch was one of the WORST things about WFNX. Now my only problem is that they play the SAME artists every hour. Bush, Sublime, Pearl Jam, and MGMT’s “Kids”. and if the Killers release another album, you don’t need to play the whole thing daily, wfnx.

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Poker several times a week.

admin — Sun, 14 Jun 2009 15:04:26 +0000

Poker is not a card game, it is a wagering game based on imperfect information. The more information you have, the better your decisions can be.

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Seating for tournaments

admin — Wed, 18 Mar 2009 16:37:18 +0000

Seating for tournaments in 535 are done as you say, and usually starts out random. In certain venues people can sign up on a Smoking list or a non-smoking list.

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Pot Odds And Hand Distributions

admin — Mon, 01 Dec 2008 09:42:19 +0000

We all know that pot odds are important in poker games. You can’t determine whether it is correct to call a bet if you don’t know what kind of odds you are getting vs. your odds of winning.

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Hand Ranking in Texas holdem

admin — Mon, 17 Nov 2008 11:36:33 +0000

Hand Ranking in Texas holdem

The first step to playing Texas holdem is to understand hand rankings. Players must know the strength of their hands in order to determine whether they have won or lost. The following list should help you with ranking texas holdem hands, and starts from weak to strong.

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Playing again, poker

admin — Wed, 15 Oct 2008 14:24:58 +0000

Last Wednesday night, the crowd at Sidepockets clearly showed that this region can, and is, coming back. We had thirty players in the first session with seven of those being new players. To those who play in other regions this might not sound like much, but it is to us.
What I found most enjoyable was playing against the new people particularly the deaf mutes.

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Poker tourney play

admin — Mon, 15 Sep 2008 08:27:24 +0000

Well after my pathetic tourney play yesterday at commerce, i felt i needed to refine my skills a bit today at the poker table, so i play hookey with my afternoon appts and went to play in the nooner at Hawaiian Gardens.
$20 entry and $10 multi rebuys, $10,000 guranantee. For a prize pool over $21,000.

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Natural Poker Player

admin — Mon, 25 Aug 2008 07:01:19 +0000

What i mean is, like i was a natural runner, does that mean i didnt have to run and work hard to rise to the top? No, i had to work out hard to be in the elite, but could i beat 90 percent of runners, non runners if i didnt work out that hard or at all, yes, so thats the natural part.
Some people are born with more fast twitch fibers than slow twitch fibers in their muscles. So ya got people who are better sprinters or endurance runners depending on what ya got.
So your “naturally” predisposed to be better at certain things based on that. But you can train your muscles to perform better at distance if your a sprinter and so on.
In poker, your not born with a certain genetic make up that makes u a natural at poker.
But you are born with a brain that may understand concepts, strategy, pot odds things like that better than someone else. That brain can also be trained just as the sprinter can be trained ot be a distance runner, it just takes more work.
Some people are just plain lucky. that doesnt mean they are a natural, it means they are damn lucky lol
I think i fall into the luck category. Before i played holdem, i won with regularity at our home poker games, whatever the game. same with board games.
Do i think its all luck that i win alot. no, i know i got some skillz lol But its a combination of being luckier than the average person, and using knowledge learned, and coupled with patience i think.
So where as i suck at math, i cant figure out my pot odds if my life depended on it, i make up for it with my lucky rabbits foot and patience and knowledge of the stuff i can figure out and then apply what works for me.
Im with floppy on the book stuff, i have quite a few and im the same, get a qaurter through them, get bored, rather learn with ojt.
i think some people are “naturally” better at learning things hands on, others are better at learning via books,or whatever method works best for them.
So to me there isnt a natural in poker, like there is a natural athlete, dancer, whatever. You might be a natural brainiac, but that doesnt garauntee a winning poker player.
Its the meshing of all the elements, intelligence or using it correctly, patience, psycology,adaptability,aggression ,instinct, so many different things and last but not least, luck.
A top runner can win races with just his fast twitch fibers and working out, and doesnt require all the elements that poker does for winning.
A runner never won a 100 meter dash by luck. Unless the other 8 people in the race all pulled a hamstrings at the same time, and that would be bad karma lol
Hence the diff in being a natural.

How to play agressive poker

Ian Paulyn — Fri, 08 Aug 2008 10:21:25 +0000

Want to play aggressive poker, but don’t think you’ve got the bottle. Then this might be the solution for you. Not only does it give you a good foundation to your game, if you keep employing this system, is becomes a great indicator about your opponents play – even if you’ve never played against them before.

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Poker After Dark

admin — Thu, 26 Jun 2008 15:58:05 +0000

I think any poker tournament would be mostly boring if you didn’t edit it down to just the “interesting” hands. The show definitely quieted down after Hellmuth was eliminated. My favorite TV poker show is High Stakes Poker by a mile, but I actually liked this in that you got to see more of the run of the mill hands that make up most tournaments. I liked that you got to see all the hole cards, even the ones that were folded. I like to see what the pros are and aren’t playing in the different positions and situations. (The WSoP broadcasts don’t show a lot of the folded hands.) Most of the table talk wasn’t very interesting, but ther e were a few little tidbits here and there.

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