‘The beautiful game’ as Pele called football (soccer if you are a US person brought up to believe handling a ball constantly is ‘football’, and not ‘handball’…), about to go ballistic in a major festival of the game which for a long time will mean wall-2-wall football. This will be like a drunk being let […]
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More Trial of Knave
The new magic formula P =( 1/3S – C)/R, where P is the pot, S is the stack, R is the raise and C is the seating arrangement and position of play has had some spectacular results recently, however, the only problem is when you are short stacked in a early position you are still […]
Poker Patience
Been playing very badly lately. My lack of patience which is normal, has now gone into overdrive giving my opponents ample opportunity to take advantage and gain my chips with little effort. The crazy thing about it is that I know I am doing this. What is the cure for this silly attitude? I have […]
Art for art sake…
Yesterday I wrote a piece about a report written by Kyle Siler about poker called School of The Bleeding Obvious. In it I basically slammed the report called Social and Psychological Challenges of Poker for being a long tract saying in an email correspondence ‘…that being tight/aggressive and not playing too many hands is the […]
School of The Bleeding Obvious
There is a august forum called ‘Journal of Gambling Studies’ which publish stuff on gambling and the its psychological effects on people and society. It maybe a worth while thing to read and is probably a great thing to partake in. However, you do have to wonder why would anyone spend so much time to […]
The Formula is Working!
I have devised a new way of playing those horrible hole cards pair of jacks. Now obviously a pair of jacks are better than a pair of Tens or a pair of Nines. But it seems like Jacks get cracked easier than Tens, Nines, Eights or even Sevens. I may have selected view about it […]
More Poker Totty News
Just a quick note about the Poker Tottys and what they are upto: The big news is that the first Poker Totty Toni Sharpe gave birth to a baby girl – Brooke-Elise Sharpe and is doing great. In the future Poker Totty Toni will be involved in the modelling business but with Toni its all […]
Lunatics and Betting
A new report from The Medical Journal of Australia confirm my view that full moons mean trouble. In the article they did some research that showed that violence increased and the nature of violence changed when there is a full moon. This is not new the Roman word for moon is Luna and it is […]
WSOP Final
The big event on Saturday is set to start 12 noon (Pacific Time) and I have been given a surprise tip by Magical Tipser – it is Antoine Saout. He is the 25 year old Frenchman who is the surprise package in this years final and subsequently he is a big price (18/1 on Betfair). […]
An Interlude from Grinding
Grinding out a living from the online poker tables is getting harder and consequently getting more boring. I tend to find myself taking more time off and/or listening to more music. I have even found myself reading newspapers while playing which is not conducive to a winning strategy. It is clear to me that grinding […]