The first clue was that he was Supernova VIP on Pokerstars. I think it must be impossible to be a Supernova VIP and play no higher than 25NL. With the new labelling system on Pokerstars you can configure the client to show your VIP status. You occasionally see a Platinum Star player, but until now [...]
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Just got pwned by a high stakes player at 25NL!
Posted in cash games, online poker, poker hands, tagged poker on October 31, 2008 | 1 Comment »
Allen Cunningham funny comment at 2008 WSOP
Posted in WSOP, poker hands, poker tournaments, table talk, tagged poker on October 21, 2008 | 1 Comment »
I quite enjoy listening to players banter at the tables and thought that I would post the funnier and/or wittier ones that I hear. The first is from someone you would not expect: Allen Cunningham at the 2008 WSOP. As you see in the pic, Allen had trip Q’s against his opponents fullhouse. The other [...]
Sick WSOP Main Event Hand: Royal Flush over Quad Aces!!
Posted in WSOP, poker hands, poker tournaments, tagged poker on September 4, 2008 | 1 Comment »
I was once on the right end of quads over quads. This hand is sicker than that. This is from the first epidose of the 2008 Main Event on ESPN:
Apparently the odds of that happening are 1 in 2.7 billion!
Good players know when to lay down Pocket Aces
Posted in cash games, poker hands, tagged poker on July 28, 2008 | 4 Comments »
“Good players know when to lay down Pocket Aces” + this hand = I am not a good player.
I think that this hand, more than any other, has depressed me and made me wonder whether I can be a winning player at higher stakes.
PokerStars No-Limit Hold’em, $0.25 BB (6 handed)
SB ($26.80)
BB ($39.45)
UTG ($14.50)
Hero ($41.45)
CO ($28.60)
Button [...]
Help please with this No Limit Hand
Posted in cash games, online poker, poker hands, tagged poker on June 16, 2008 | 2 Comments »
Ok….before I show the hand that I need advice on, I need to give some background.
After my ‘understanding variance’ post, I ignored my advice. On Saturday night I played like a donkey and had a shocker. One thing that I said in that post is to understand when a bad run is due to variance. [...]
I have trouble folding ‘pretty hands’!
Posted in cash games, online poker, poker hands, tagged poker on May 5, 2008 | 2 Comments »
I have several leaks in my NL cash game online. This hand demonstrates one of them:
PokerStars No-Limit Hold’em, $0.10 BB (5 handed)
SB ($28.15)
BB ($3.80)
Hero ($10)
MP ($10.05)
Button ($15.25)
Preflop: Hero is UTG with , .
Hero raises to $0.4, 1 fold, Button calls $0.40, SB calls $0.35, 1 fold.
Flop: ($1.30) , , (3 players)
SB checks, Hero checks, [...]
The Right Side of the Coolest of Coolers
Posted in cash games, online poker, poker hands, tagged poker on January 30, 2008 | 2 Comments »
I don’t usually say sorry when I am on the right side of a cooler. I did after this hand:
PokerStars No-Limit Hold’em, $0.25 BB (5 handed)
MP ($23.95)
Button ($4.85)
Hero ($39.45)
BB ($22.20)
UTG ($10.05)
Preflop: Hero is SB with , .
UTG calls $0.25, 1 fold, Button calls $0.25, Hero raises to $1, BB calls $0.75, UTG calls $0.75, Button [...]
Gold v Antonius: $743,800 pot on High Stakes Poker
Posted in poker hands, tagged poker on November 18, 2007 | Leave a Comment »
Next time you get rivered and lose a $10 pot, take a moment to look at this!
Patrick Antonius is rivered, not once…but twice in the one hand to lose ~$250,000.
The way Patrick handles the beat is why he is one of my favourite players.
Key to Winning at NL Holdem Cash Games
Posted in cash games, online poker, poker hands, tagged poker on November 4, 2007 | 3 Comments »
The more hands I play microlimit NL Holdem, the more I am realising that one of the key components of a winning game is the ability to ‘cope’ with the wrong side of variance. I have now played almost 36,000 hands at 5/10c NL Holdem and I still don’t think that is nearly enough to [...]
Top 2 pair versus overpair
Posted in cash games, poker hands, tagged poker on October 6, 2007 | 2 Comments »
Just posting this to show a recent hand typical of how I have been running. Every time I get some momentum, I get a hand like this and get outdrawn.
UTG is a tight aggressive player who has done well when I have played him. I usually only play premium hands post flop against him.
PokerStars [...]
