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When To Play Silly?

Added on February 4th, 2010 by admin
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Silly Poker Is Good

Silly Poker Is Good

Tournament poker is different from cash games! This may strike as stating the obvious but it still needs emphasizing – why?Well while playing a free roll in which there were 10,000 players I was struck by comments made towards a guy who was short stack but went all in with 8, 3 off suit and won a hand. This guy later went on to finish 4th.

Obviously he was labelled a fish, a donk and an idiot. But in my view he did the correct thing because when a guy raises and get called by 5 other players that means they have reasonable starting hands, which mean they usually have high cards or high pairs. He then consciously or sub-consciously took the view that there ere a lot of low value cards left in the stack, therefore giving him a chance of upsetting the apple cart. If he loses he would have been out sooner or later so why not get it over and done with.

To me this makes sense and sometimes pay off and pay off handsomely. In a cash game this would be financial suicide and bad for the table image because you will get called all the time as they feel you are a loose player. Getting called all the time maybe great when you have the nuts but sometimes you do not want people calling you because if you have 2 pair they may be drawing for a straight or flush and you know they will invariably get that straight or flush.

On the other hand it can also help you gain more cash because they may think you are doing on of your bluffs when you have the nuts – which if you read my blogs on a regular basis you will know that I am the king of making people think I am a nut job. <LINK>

So in-conclusion playing like a lunatic in a tournament, especially online tournament can pay off if used sensibly and sparingly.


Weekend Poker Blues

Added on November 16th, 2009 by admin
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Decided to try something different and play 4 tables at the same time, whilst listening to some eclectic music, watching football and rugby on the telly.

Still got bored, went to the pub and ended up getting plastered and talking to some random drunk and his missus. He was well over the limit and she had no front teeth so it was a class night!

The reason for playing 4 tables was that I got talking to an interesting guy about multi table cash games and thought that I would give it a go.  I have tried this before and have spoken to others who say they have played up to 8 games at once.

The trick is that you have to be able to completely and totally grind which does leave you open to players such as myself to bluff and use subterfuge to over grind the multi table player out.

I lasted all of 2 hours before my senses were overloaded and I lost the plot somewhat and ended up losing over all and me ending up drinking with chief wino and his woman.

If you have had a weekend like I have had why not relax and watch some of my videos to divert your attention from the bleeps and squeaks of online poker.

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Future Plans for PokerKnave.com

Added on October 2nd, 2009 by pokerknave
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Marius rating for poker blog chart

Marius rating for poker blog chart

After a report from Marius and various views from some of the Poker Totty’s I am now in the middle of re-vamping the website as a Poker blogging engine, as well as a window into the world of fashion and glamour. This is to tie in with the 1st anniversary of the launch of pokerknave.com, and, hopefully this will make the use of the website much more easy to use and to utilise.

Although there is a relatively easy to read guide to playing Texas Hold Em, there is also a need to come up with a page for Omaha. Also, when it comes to writing about the lifestyle of a poker player there is a need to simplify the basic functions such as uploading pictures, video and other media stuff. Plus we need to add social bookmark buttons to make it easy to promote the blogs.

More links to modelling agency and casino’s would be an area of further interest as part of the PokerKnave Poker Klub, which believe or not is very difficult at the moment because we have a particular line (fun) with quite a prominently independent online presence (we do and say what we want).

On the fun side of poker playing it would be good for a definitive guide to playing strip poker – including reverse strip poker, with maybe a video to illustrate the tactics and the outcome of such a game. Not because I want to show copious amount of naked flesh (heaven forbid), but to help newby’s to this game have some sort of reference point to the game.

As for the area of live poker games there have been various enquiries about tipping within casino’s especially those located in Las Vegas. I have not been to Las Vegas, but I know that in the UK it is really hot issue with establishments especially restaurants using the tips as part of the wages, which was pretty standard. Quite clearly I am against this dubious practice and a definitive guide should be done on this subject.

Being a premier online poker blogging website it is clear that issues such as poker rake backs, cash backs, free roll tournament strategy and other such things need to be explained as this can lead to total confusion for the recreational players who can get confused by all these schemes. To tell you the truth it confuses me and I am minded to say where there is a scheme, there is a schemer! I will say no more.

The industry is changing and we will be changing to reflect this, however, we will never submit to anyone who want to us to be a straight forward poker, site we will always be eclectic, we will always be irreverent about the world of poker and also comment on other things which on the face of it have nothing to do with poker but as you know my view is life is a poker game just as silly and raw. I would like your views on this so send me a message – ideally it should be on the forum but I am to anally retentive to let spammers have their way so drop me a line via this link <CONTACT>.