Thursday 21 April 2011

This American Thing...

Strange times in the poker world with the shermans getting the boot.

I've noticed very little difference in the games on stars if i'm honest. They seem to be just as good. As long as there are some crazy Russians I don't care.

While I'm on the subject, what is it with Russians and their inability to play poker? If 2+2 translate their books we're all fucked.

Sunday 3 April 2011

not posted in a looong time but this is semi interesting...

So I've always been a pretty solid full ring limit hold em player. Over the course of my poker playing career I've always made decent money playing this game but lets be honest, it's as boring as fuck.

In my relentless search to find something that piques my interest and makes me money I've pretty much tried every form of poker ever with varying degrees of failure. I got pretty hooked on heads up limit a while ago but, truth be told, I'm not very good at it. That's ok though because it has solved more problems than it's created.

About 3 months ago I was pretty hard up in poker and in life. Yeah I had a job that earned me decent wages but not much of a bankroll and very little spare cash.

One semi drunken evening I logged on to stars on a whim and sat at a 6 max lhe table. I've tried 6 max before but it was a disaster. This time something really clicked. I handled my opponents aggression really well after being used to playing huhu and there was no tilt, never over defended my blinds and just played really solid loose and aggressive poker.

fucking hallefuckinglujah.

anyhoo... 3 months down the line I've worked my way up from .10/.20c to $2/$4 playing a shitload of hands and actually enjoying poker again.

Moral of the story: If you want to go from full ring to short handed, learn to play heads up.