Mastering Small Stakes
This audiobook is MASSIVELY helpful for small-stakes games and is highly recommended...
About Time!
Couldn't of happened to a nicer guy. No matter how busy he is, he always takes the time to take pictures or sign autographs. Congrats KID!
Rigging the Deck
Ugh... I hate it when this happens. It's just puts a bad light on poker in general.
Starting From Scratch
As many poker players often do, I'm starting this page from scratch. I'm keeping all of my old posts up, but in the works of putting up new kinds of stuff. Stay tuned!
The Perfect Storm
So this happened... I'm in the big blind with 3-5 off. The under the gun raises to $30 and everyone besides the small blind calls. I announced I wasn't even looking and called it for pot odds. I have about $700+ behind me and I don't even have the biggest stack. The flop comes 6d 2c 4s raindow. I checked in the dark, still haven't look at my cards yet.
The under the gun now makes it $50 and the player after makes it $100. Players 4 and 7 call. Now it's time to look... I FLOPPED A NUT STRAIGHT! I'm debating whether or not to just call or raise. I went with just a call and UTG just calls.
Turn was a Qh. I checked again and UTG makes it $200. The player after goes for a shove of about $500. 2 calls and I just smooth called as did the UTG.
Then the Kc peels off. Now I have the absolute stone nuts. I made a "disgruntled" check...
Then comes the SHOVE FEST! Everyone left jammed all in and I was more than happy to call. The main pot was something a little north of $2800!!! There were 2 smaller side pots, but I took the bulk of it. THE PERFECT STORM!
Scared Money is Dead Money
By definition, it goes like this: Click Here...
Noun
A player who is so nervous about losing that the player's decision-making is negatively impacted.
EXAMPLE: "I was playing against scared money. I ended up winning quite a bit by bullying my opponent out of the pot."
The very simple moral of the story is this: If you can't afford to lose what you put on the table, go home. I've seen it before where a group of people would gather there money together and put it all in front of one "champion". Then when said champion loses a big pot, the friends get irritated and the player ends up playing scared money and loses the rest.