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Extreme Discipline
Because poker is such a long-run game, the best players are able to continue making accurate folds even when it seems like it's impossible for their opponents to be running so good. I'm inspired by players who are able to sit down at the table for countless hours, days, weeks and months while ...
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Back to Blogging
With the winter blogger gathering coming up in Las Vegas the weekend of Dec. 11, I became motivated to get back to posting. The main reasons for my four-month hiatus were that I ran out of things to write about and felt when I did post, it wasn't any good. I got annoyed with the quality of the ...
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Run it Twice FTW
Run it twice pays off after we got it all-in preflop. Scoop!
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A misplayed draw
I made a big mistake in this hand when I flopped a flush draw and overcards. I didn't stop to think about the hand and just spewed my money in. Because the pot size was still small, I would have been better off calling the flop. Then I could have decided whether to make a move on the turn when ...
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Taxonomics
States including Hawaii, Connecticut, Massachusetts and Ohio now prohibit deductions of gambling losses on state income taxes. These laws could make it difficult for even a winning player to have much money left over. Fortunately, there's an alternative -- filing as a professional gambler. Even ...
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Run it Twice
As Full Tilt's "Run it Twice" feature becomes available at a wider variety of stakes, I'm finding it to be a valuable tool in reducing variance. The trend I'm seeing is that not many players are taking advantage of this feature at the 2/4 NL games, which is a shame. All players in a hand must ...
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