I’ve been playing poker for almost 20 years now and I’ve come to a hard won realization: making significant money playing live low stakes poker is nearly impossible. That’s because no matter how good you are, it is almost impossible,…
This morning I wrote about how I was “Nibbling On NKE” heading into its earnings report this afternoon. It was similar to the plunge into United Natural Foods (UNFI) I made on Monday ahead of its earnings report Tuesday morning….
I drove up to Graton Casino in Rohnert Park early on Friday morning to play in the $1700 Main Event. On both Friday and Saturday, I played and lost the $300 satellite and $1700 Main Event. In other words, I…
Poker – like stocks – is a game of people. As a result, the right strategy is not something absolute but dependent on the other players’ strategies. In other words, it’s a problem for Game Theory. If players are bad,…
So we beat on, boats against the current, borne back ceaselessly into the past – F. Scott Fitzgerald, The Great Gatsby Whenever I come back to Sacramento it stirs up all sorts of memories. I came to Sacramento in the…
In this blog, I’m going to review the four major hands from my last $2/$3/$5 poker session at Casino M8TRIX in San Jose, CA. On the first hand I picked up two black Aces in early position and raised to…
In “The Tao Of Poker” I said that most of your money will be made by having the best hand when all the chips go in. What I omitted to say is that a corollary of doing so is getting…
The most interesting poker hand ever took place in a high stakes cash game involving Daniel Negreanu, Phil Ivey and Patrick Antonius last year. The blinds were $500/$1000 and Antonius raised to $2500 from early position with 55. Another player…
I was playing $2/$3/$5 at Casino M8TRIX last night. There was a live $10, two callers and the cutoff raised to $55. I called with AQ in the small blind and one of the callers called as well. There was…
I’ve been playing poker for nearly 20 years and I can tell you that winning poker is mostly about solid fundamentals and self discipline. What are solid fundamentals? It starts with hand selection. You should be folding most of your…