My New Thing

My new thing when I see someone sit down at a $2/$4 or $3/$6 table with a huge buy-in (like $700+) and they start trying to push people around on pots is I get their attention and then I ask “Hey, are you that bad that you need to sit down with that much money …

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Can Someone Explain Party To Me?

Why does every table on Party break up withing 1/2 hour? I play on Paradise all the time and you can still be playing with the same people you started with 5 hours later. At Party 20 minutes on a table and all of a sudden you look up and 2 chairs are empty and …

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I Popped My NL Cherry!

You know one thing that will really make a woman mad? Just run up and kick her in the butt. (P.S. This also works with men.) –Jack Handey Though I’ve played plenty of tournament NL, I’ve never found myself at a NL cash game. Last night Zengy called me up around 9 and we met …

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A Bad Beat . . . That I Wasn’t On The Losing End Of

For once, a bad beat I was happy to lay down on someone else. 🙂 Preflop: Hero is SB with Ac, Ad. UTG folds, UTG+1 calls, MP1 folds, MP2 calls, MP3 calls, CO folds, Button folds, Hero raises, BB folds, UTG+1 calls, MP2 calls, MP3 calls. Flop: (9 SB) 4s, As, 9d (4 players) Hero …

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Learning Important Lessons

As we all go through life we either learn lessons or repeat our mistakes. Most of the lessons we learn come at a relatively small price while others can be significantly more painful. For instance, many young men learn early in their high school athletic career that showing up for football practice without a cup …

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