With dinner over, I headed back up to the tables with high hopes. Unfortunately, I ran into a table that was full of a particular player type that I really, really, reeeeeeeeeeally hate playing with. People who are entirely too proud of their ability to read a hand ranking chart, and all too eager to [...]

Sorry for the delay in getting this blog posted, I was busy enjoying the New Years festivities with friends. It got long, so I cut it in two for the tl;dr crowd. At any rate, I arrived in AC in the evening, and it was straight to my favorite casino, the Borgata. Just walking back [...]

I hadn’t set foot in a casino in a couple of months, and I was quite excited to get back to playing. Because I was traveling and playing with a buddy of mine, I ended up having to limit my play to the Taj, as opposed to my preferred casino, the Borgata. The Taj is [...]

First off, many apologies to everyone for leaving you hanging on the blog. I really honestly did mean to write a couple more posts and keep you all updated, but life happens and poker got put to the back burner. As I think I mentioned, I play college soccer. Toward the end of the summer [...]

Poker was easy these past two days, and I’m definitely grateful for it. I’ve had two easy, winning sessions without getting in any serious trouble at all. Never losing a big pot sure cuts down on the stress of poker! Unfortunately, I really don’t have any interesting hands to report. In my one big hand [...]

I had a very good time playing last night, even if I didn’t break the bank. I genuinely enjoy live poker most of the time, and yesterday was definitely a fun session. To start with, my table was talkative and friendly, which is excellent both for my enjoyment and my EV. Mike Caro once wrote [...]

I rolled out of bed Friday morning and wrote my blog about the past night’s uneventful play. I headed over to the room and decided I would play between 5 and 7 hours depending on table conditions. I was happy to see early on that I had landed at a fairly loose, fairly fishy table. [...]

I’m ready to finally talk about something other than tipping for once! To be completely honest, I knew as I was giving my tip that the vast majority of people would think it was too small. I knew as I was writing the blog that I would get a lot of negative feedback on it, [...]

I woke up and rolled out of bed in time for 12 noon checkout. I was still pretty disappointed in having my worst session ever the night before, but knew that I had a long day of grinding ahead of me and the games should prove juicy. In my first orbit I flopped a small [...]

I suppose the title pretty much says it all. My first hour or so at the table was a pretty good indicator of how my night would end up going. It was especially disappointing because I think the games I played tonight were among the best I’ve ever sat in at the Borgata. There was [...]