Meet Jilli Dog, The Poker-Playing Dog
December 30, 2007
Elaine and I have been training our dog, Floyd, to do tricks lately… and then Elaine came across this video of Jilli Dog, the poker-playing Yorkie.
Archive Review: More Love For Limit Hold’em
December 27, 2007
Lately I’ve been playing mostly no-limit, so I haven’t been posting as many articles or Q&As about limit. Unfortunately, this post isn’t a new article about limit hold’em. But it is an archive review dedicated to limit, which is actually like four times better because it’s links to four articles, right?
One of my main pet […]
Merry Christmas 2007
December 25, 2007
Everyone out there have a rocking Christmas. If you’re reading this from Sweden or Finland, I hope you see the sun again sometime in the next few weeks.
Crushing Wild No-Limit Games
December 23, 2007
Wild games give many players fits. The betting gets so big, so fast, it takes them out of their comfort zone. “Sure, this top pair is better than what I usually see out of my opponents, but do I really want to bet $500 on it?”
If you avoid wild games, though, you’re missing out on […]
Q&A #97: Rebuilding Your Game From Scratch, AKA Using Basic Principles To Beat A $3-$6 Limit Game
December 21, 2007
This Q&A appeared originally six months ago during my stint at Ask an Expert at InternetTexasHoldem.com. I was thinking about it recently and decided I’d share it with my readers here. Besides, I haven’t had much limit hold’em content here lately.
AlamedaMike asked:
As I posted in the psychology I have exhausted my emotional bankroll. Ian’s latest […]
Q&A #96: A No-Limit Hold’em Postflop and Preflop Twofer (With Hand Reading)
December 18, 2007
Am I a donkey?
That’s today’s question from zoomraker. My answer is a definite no, but I would have played the hands he submitted a bit differently.
The first hand is a fairly common top pair postflop situation from a $0.50 buy-in no-limit tournament:
Instead of quoting the hand history directly, I’ll summarize for ease of reading.
It’s the […]
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December 15, 2007
About six weeks ago, I joined the team over at StoxPoker.com. For those who don’t know, StoxPoker is a video poker coaching site which is, in my opinion, one of the very best ways around to improve your poker game. Instead of reading about concepts or seeing one or two examples in isolation, you can […]