Rising Star Day 1B: The Third Time Is Always Aces
On Tuesday, I played Day 1B of the $5200 Rising Star at my home casino Bay 101 in San Jose, CA that I satellited into last Thursday. I bagged 135,500 chips – good for a tie for 39th of the…
On Tuesday, I played Day 1B of the $5200 Rising Star at my home casino Bay 101 in San Jose, CA that I satellited into last Thursday. I bagged 135,500 chips – good for a tie for 39th of the…
Three months ago I wrote about the evolution of modern poker with a focus on tournament superstar Chance Kornuth (“From Harrington On Hold ‘Em To Chipleader Coaching: The Evolution Of Modern Poker”, December 23, 2023). The general point was that…
When I first started playing poker in the wake of Chris Moneymaker’s spectacular 2003 Main Event win, the bible of tournament poker was Dan Harrington’s Harrington On Hold ‘Em. Harrington won the 1995 Main Event and made the final table…
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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…