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All about the structure

When you’re looking into tournaments to play, be it around town or around the internet, one of the most important thing to consider is the structure. The structure of a tournament are the groudrules, as in: starting chips, blinds levels, how often the blinds increase, number of players at a table, % paid out, etc. [...]

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Posted on February 19, 2006 by Steve | Filed Under Online Poker, Tournaments
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Passive play kicked my ass

Earlier in a post I talked about how passive play isn’t always bad … well sometimes it is. Case in point, last night I played in my weekly $10+rebuy tournament here at Ohio State and I was in for $20, up to $12,000 from $3,000 during the first hour, then hovered at $14,000-$18,000 for the [...]

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Posted on February 17, 2006 by Steve | Filed Under Stories, Tournaments
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How could you call that?!

I’d like to relate a funny story from one of my MTTs a while back. We were deep into the tournament with average stacks nearing 60k and the blinds were $1200-$2400. I was in the big blind with a monster: 6[spades]4[spades] when the cutoff raised all in for $6000. The small blind then called-all-in with [...]

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Posted on February 16, 2006 by Steve | Filed Under Online Poker, Stories, Strategy, Tournaments
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Addicted?

I was perusing Pocketfives.com a few days ago and read a very well written article on addiction and gambling, and admitting that you might be addicted. Tim, the author, offers a lot of good situations and advice and shares a few of his own stories on the subject. If you play poker a lot and [...]

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Posted on February 15, 2006 by Steve | Filed Under Off the felt
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Passive play isn’t always bad

A lot of people read books and articles and come out with the opinion that passive = bad play, but this isn’t always the case, there are good times to be passive and bad times to be passive. On the bubble of a tournament, for instance, is a bad time to be passive. This is [...]

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Posted on February 14, 2006 by Steve | Filed Under Online Poker, Stories, Strategy, Tournaments
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Trapping with a cold call

Last night my roommates and I invited five other guys over to play a small sit n go tournament in our room. 10 People started and we were paying out top three. I took some liberties in the first hour and dwindled down to $3500 (From $5000 starting chips) and decided I should start tightening [...]

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Posted on February 13, 2006 by Steve | Filed Under Stories, Strategy, Tournaments
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Alcohol and Poker

This past weekend was a pretty crazy one for me. It was my girlfriend’s last weekend in the States with me so we celebrated pretty heavily (please excuse the lack of posts), but I did manage to get some poker in late at night after a few drinks… The challenge of playing poker while drinking [...]

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Posted on February 12, 2006 by Steve | Filed Under Online Poker
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