Tells in online poker
I’ve seen a few posts about the differences of online poker and live poker and I was amused to see a lot of the posters say that it is much harder to read people in online poker, and that is the key difference. Well, in short, they’re completely wrong. If anything online poker strips poker [...]
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Posted on February 28, 2006 by Steve | Filed Under Online Poker
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One mistake is all it takes
Any tournament poker player, even Norman Chad, will tell you that in NL holdem tournaments it only takes one small mistake to lose all your chips and be on the rail. I’d love to say that I’ve been playing long enough to recognize possible mistakes and avoid making them, but every tournament I lose I [...]
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Posted on February 27, 2006 by Steve | Filed Under Stories, Tournaments
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I’m back from a well needed break
Hey all! I forgot to mention as it was pretty spur of the moment that I was heading home this past weekend, and since I never can remember what my login and password are for the blog I couldn’t update. I did however play a few of those 180-person $22 tournaments this weekend to get [...]
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Posted on February 26, 2006 by Steve | Filed Under Online Poker, Stories, Tournaments
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Experiment 3 – Loose Passive
If I could take the two good things about the previous two styles it would be tight and aggressive … tight aggressive! If I took the other halves of the styles I’d have loose passive, and a waste of $5! I’m not going to much into the specific hands, but it was a lot of [...]
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Posted on February 23, 2006 by Steve | Filed Under Online Poker, Stories, Tournaments
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Experiment 2 – Tight Passive
Playing tight passive was very difficult for me, I guess I just care too much. It was really hard for me not reraise a lot of pots and pressure my opponents, but I reminded myself that it was only $5 and hopefully would have some interesting results. Well, I did fare better than in my [...]
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Posted on February 22, 2006 by Steve | Filed Under Online Poker, Stories, Strategy, Tournaments
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Experiment 1 – Loose Aggressive
I played my first $5 SNG with the loose aggressive style, here’s a quick recap of my view on loose aggressive: Loose Aggressive I want to see a lot of hands, and I want to raise a lot of hands, especially with position. When I get in a pot I want to take control and [...]
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Posted on February 21, 2006 by Steve | Filed Under Online Poker, Stories, Strategy, Tournaments
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A little experiment
In light of the fact that I’ll be taking science courses and labs for the rest of my college career (go Microbiology!) I have decided to design my own damn experiment and not some interpretation of QualScheme… Alright, glad I got that out: The experiment is a test on different playing styles. There are several [...]
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Posted on February 20, 2006 by Steve | Filed Under Online Poker, Stories, Strategy, Tournaments
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