There are two ways to win pots in poker. The first is to get value from made hands. You wait until you make a good hand and try to extract maximum value from your opponent with a lesser holding. This…
I came in to Day 2 of Graton’s opening weekend $400 $200k Guarantee with high hopes having the 2nd largest chip stack out of 153 remaining players. While it didn’t go the way I hoped it would, I played my…
Incredibly, after coming within my Aces holding up vs Mikhail Sniatovksii’s Kings for the chiplead on the bubble in Flight B on Friday, I came back on Saturday and bagged the largest stack of Flight E – 2nd largest overall…
One of the reasons I believe that I continue to improve even as I approach 50 is my willingness to get outside of my comfort zones and try new things to see if what I’m doing in any of my…
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…
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…