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Time To Regulate Online Gambling: Choices Are Running Out For US Govt.

Date: Wed, Nov 26, 2008

With the new President Obama’s inaugaration coming up in January, the American Gaming Association is convinced that the new office will be a more gambling-friendly party. The AGA is motivated and quickly getting ready to put forth and strengthen their position to get internet gambling legalized and regulated in the United States. During President Bush’s office [...]

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Time To Regulate Online Gambling: Choices Are Running Out For US Govt.

Date: Wed, Nov 26, 2008

With the new President Obama’s inaugaration coming up in January, the American Gaming Association is convinced that the new office will be a more gambling-friendly party. The AGA is motivated and quickly getting ready to put forth and strengthen their position to get internet gambling legalized and regulated in the United States. During President Bush’s office [...]

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Blog Strategy Posts

Date: Tue, Jul 1, 2008

This is a compilation of my poker strategy-related posts in this blog, for posterity and easy access. Sizing Your Bets in No-limit, Part I: Preflop and the Cumulative Effect How $7 turns into $100 over the course of three streets of betting. Sizing Your Bets in No-limit, Part Ib: An Addendum “Big pots - big hands” - why? Sizing Your [...]

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The End.

Date: Wed, Jun 25, 2008

After two and a half years of blogging for CardsChat.com, it is time for me to move on. There was no drama involved, no disagreement between me and site owner Nick about quality or quantity or artistic freedom or, honestly, anything at all. It was a disagreement between myself and making a blogging commitment. At [...]

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June Half-time - Vacation!

Date: Sat, Jun 14, 2008

I only mentioned in passing how poker has been going in the last post, so this time I figured I’d give you one of them graphs you’re all so fond of. June first through present. Enjoy! I’m just now getting ready and packed up to go visit my parents. From there, we will (on Monday) take [...]

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June Results - sort of.

Date: Wed, Jun 11, 2008

Just a brief update on my current situation in poker and life: I’m still playing poker, and I’m still winning (knock on wood). I’ve averaged another 4ptBB/100 in June, over about 5k hands, and I feel like I’m playing better than in May. A lot better. I suppose that means that I’m not running as hot. Socially [...]

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Bet-sizing, Part III: Bluffing

Date: Wed, Jun 11, 2008

The lesson about sizing bluffs learned from No-limit Hold’em - Theory and Practise is that we should bet enough to “get the job done” but not much more. In theory, I could end this post on sizing bluffs on that note, because there really isn’t that much more to say. If you decide to bluff, [...]

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Party At It Again

Date: Tue, Jun 3, 2008

Party’s latest promotion strikes me as geared to players who apparently don’t do anything but play poker: http://www.partypoker.com/news/items/free_ride.html Take a Free Ride with our amazing commission–free offer Commission–free play is the dream destination for poker players – and now we’re giving you the chance to get there. Once you’ve played for 160 hours, you’ll play with no table charges [...]

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May Results

Date: Sat, May 31, 2008

So one month and 15k hands at 50NL : If I look at how I’ve changed my game this month, it’s primarily become more aggressive and I’ve loosened up quite a lot in position. The last week of May, I played a 22/18/2 style, and the first week of May it was 18/13/2.7. That’s actually a [...]

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Bet-sizing, Part IIc: Making Decisions Easy

Date: Wed, May 28, 2008

Finally, the third and final post on sizing your bets to avoid getting yourself in a sticky situation with your next decision. This time, we look at river play - an area where most people seem to struggle badly. The balance between value bets and avoiding checkraises is not as delicate as it may seem, [...]

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Bet-sizing, Part IIb: Making Decisions Easy

Date: Sun, May 25, 2008

Somewhat belatedly, I give you the second of three examples on sizing bets or raises in a way to make the potential decision on whether or not to fold to a re-raise easy. The belatedness of this post has to do with planning and executing a close friend’s bachelor party (or stag party, if you [...]

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Bet-sizing, Part IIa: Making Decisions Easy

Date: Tue, May 20, 2008

I ended the first post with the teaser of this post being about “sizing your bets and raises in a way that makes folding to a re-raise much easier.” This is only half the truth, really. I should have said, “sizing your bets and raises in a way that makes the decision of whether or [...]

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I Won!

Date: Mon, May 19, 2008

PokerStars Tournament #84311864, No Limit Hold’em Buy-In: $10.00/$1.00 81 players $200.00 added to the prize pool by PokerStars.com Total Prize Pool: $1010.00 Tournament started - 2008/05/18 - 13:30:00 (ET) Dear FPau, You finished the tournament in 1st place. A $303.00 award has been credited to your Real Money account. Congratulations! Thank you for participating. ———- I don’t play in a lot of these events, but during the [...]

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Sizing Your Bets in No-limit, Part Ib: An Addendum

Date: Sat, May 17, 2008

There something that I feel I should add to the last post, for clarification, before I move on to Part II (sizing bets to avoid being bluffed). It’s the idea behind “big hands, big pots” which may not be obvious to everyone. If I have AK and the flop is A-9-5 and there’s one other guy [...]

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