Played a 6 hour session Friday afternoon and the action at Borgata was pretty good. The room was hopping as always, and the tables I sat at were pretty action packed and fun. I won some small pots early, before losing a tiny all-in pot with KQ of diamonds <AJ offsuit on a 91010 with [...]

As easy as last night’s session was, that’s how much of a struggle tonight’s was. It’s late and I’m tired and there’s nothing to blog about so this is going to be rather short. I never really made a hand, and had lots of good spots to setmine or take a flop and never flopped [...]

Before we get into poker stuff, I was terrifically excited about the United States Men’s Soccer team’s triumph over Spain in the Confed Cup this afternoon. Sweating this game  was infinitely more fun for me than playing poker, and I really really like playing poker. No amount of runbad could put me in a bad [...]

Ok, maybe the title is being a little melodramatic. I have, after all, run very well in my 2-5 “career” and running bad for one day, or more precisely getting sucked out on in two pots, certainly doesn’t make me a victim. Nevertheless, I expect to win every time I play, and I started Tuesday’s [...]

After a good workout, I hit the tables feeling refreshed and ready to play. I played around an hour at my first table and won a weird pot where my pair of tens somehow held up against 6 opponents. I won a couple other small pots and racked up +187 for the first hour before [...]

I’ve been very excited at how well my transition to 2-5 has gone. For one thing, my results have been fantastic, unsustainably so in fact, but more than that is the discovery that the games at 2-5 are very soft and beatable for a solid winrate. Buoyed by this knowledge, I’ve been excited to get [...]

Since I decided to switch mainly to 2-5, I have been on a tear. Because the money is larger and thus more important to me, I’ve found that I focus much more and play my “A game” a far greater percentage of the time than I was when I was playing 1/2. I feel extremely [...]

I got seated in a 2-5 game that’s pretty good. One hand I flat 20 dollars with QQ on the button and get three streets of value to win a nice pot. In another hand I make aces up against AJ and win another nice (if standard) pot and am off to a good start. [...]

Yes, Limit poker. I’ve been meaning to take a few shots at some limit games, so I decided to do so  for a short time today. No limit games are generally better the later you play (3:00 AM games are usually wonderful, 3:00 pm games usually suck) so I’ve been wondering if maybe it’s a [...]

I walked down to the Taj poker room, and put myself on the list for 2/5. Over the weekend (after I busted from the Borgata events) I’ve been grinding 2/5 at the Taj and doing very well. Tonight though, I was disappointed to find only two tables running and a long wait. To kill time [...]