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back in the usual direction

Poker: lost 3BI in 150 hands to:  flopped quads (v my AA) which i’d play the same way every time flopped flush (v my overpair with what i thought was a flush redraw) that i need to look at flopped flush (v my flopped top 2 in a three way pot with a shortie) that [...]

June 23, 2010   Posted in: Cards  No Comments

so, once again, from the beginning

hey, happy father’s day everyone.  i got a hug from the teenage girl child who told me she loves me before she headed out on a week vacation with a friend’s family.  good start to it all in my book. DRUMS – been playing pretty much twice a week between band practices and gigs.  that’s [...]

June 20, 2010   Posted in: Cards  No Comments

red dead redemption

so, the kid gets a new videogame tonight.  a western, where you can sit in on a poker game.  he looks down at a pair of nines, we raise.  all undercard flop, two tone.  we bet, get one caller.  turn comes no help on the flush, but pairs the middle flop card (5′s).  we bet, [...]

May 26, 2010   Posted in: Cards  No Comments

oh my

that was two hours of sheer frustration.  now i remember how much happier my life is without poker.  and it was all my fault.  which makes it even more clear.  it would take me about 45 hours to clear off the rest of the bonus.  at that rate i’m looking to end up about $1,700 [...]

February 23, 2010   Posted in: Cards  No Comments

what’s my range??

BTIMM:  when you ressurect yourself online as an alter-ego blogger, do let me in on the location.  hitup the “about me” page for an email/msn/skype addy. CARDS: on the homework front, i’m reviewing hands to see what my range is.  or more specifically, what range of cards do i play profitably.  probably should’ve been doing [...]

November 26, 2009   Posted in: Cards  One Comment

the joy is in the journey

Long teaching experience has taught me that students say they have read an entire chapter of a book on basic electronics poker, yet cannot remember what they have read. That’s because getting to the end was the goal, not getting the most out of the reading. Speed kills. Give your brain time. this, uh, might [...]

November 20, 2009   Posted in: Cards  No Comments

taking into account . . .

well, i decided that my next post was going to be about cards.  and i’ve written 72 of them that i never pushed publish on, deleting them because they were whines of varying degrees.  the world doesn’t need more of that.  i had a bundle of frustration over my inability to break through the game [...]

November 12, 2009   Posted in: Cards  No Comments

not quite fifteen

that’s the number of buy-ins that i’m running -EV this month over 15k hands.  i haven’t been able to stop that kind of bleeding, so i’m down for the month.  running even the other day felt like i was walking on water! for a while on this trip i’d been “trying to play through it”.  because [...]

September 30, 2009   Posted in: Cards  No Comments

bonus(es)

well, i haven’t posted because i’ve been busy actually playing cards.  the effects of that 3betting series ran through me, and now i think i’ve digested the proper portion of it, and disposed of the rest.  in the interim i lost a couple bucks during the figuring out stage.  so be it.  caught a bonus [...]

August 15, 2009   Posted in: Cards  2 Comments

friday recap

had a session of cards that started in the early AM of friday (1am) and followed it up with a couple of hours in the afternoon (i know, too long) where i dropped a total of 4BI between them both.  so, before the guys got here to jam i had planned on doing a brief [...]

August 8, 2009   Posted in: Cards  2 Comments