December 7th, 2005
Small Stakes Tournaments
Last month was a bit of a cold streak for me. I seemed to build a big stack early then somehow manage to bubble in several tournaments, being one off the money each time. It was easy to attribute these losses to being unlucky, getting outdrawn, taking a bad beat, etc. When it […]
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December 7th, 2005
Ashley Adams
It was, by all accounts, a miserable game. The players were miserable, the game was deadly boring, the rake was too high, the stakes were too low, and I was exhausted. I really shouldn’t have been playing in this $1-5 game, but two friends without much in the way of poker-playing money wanted to […]
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December 7th, 2005
A Fool and His Money: A Joe and Hobby Fiction
“Don’t you love being up here, Joe. It’s like sitting on top of the world.”
“The view is magnificent, Hobby, but I can’t say I’m at ease.” We were in Hobby’s Beechcraft Bonanza on our way to Las Vegas. Hobby is a good pilot, but I’m not […]
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December 7th, 2005
Mike Caro is the ‘Mad Genius’ of Poker
Sometimes no-limit poker seems closer to being an art form than a science. It’s about trying to grasp what your opponents’ are thinking. It’s about making decisions in harmony with whatever weirdness dances in their heads right now.
So, how is that different from playing limit poker? Good question. […]
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