Well, the French have joined the gambling witch hunt. My last name is Prevo which is an Americanizing of Prevost. That is French but if you don't know that it could be close to a lot of middle European names. I don't brag up the fact and it actually a minority part of my gene pool. The French seem to embarrass themselves at every turn-- ( Read more... )

I have been doing the voyeur bit more than normal. It is fun watching those Full Tilt pros playing for real-honest-to-god amounts. The OH table seems to draw them. I played some .25-50 on PokerRoom with some dregs won in a freeroll of all things and manage to turn a few bucks into a huge (relative) win. Reported the silly details in a thread in ( Read more... )

We have met the enemy and he is us! - Pogo ( Read more... )

I haven't been able to figure out how I lost interest in Poker and yet didn't lose interest in poker. I think it is because I take too many things seriously. I have a sister that makes me a piker in that respect and I do have the saving grace of a sense of humor--strange as it might be ( Read more... )

Played this morning. Really tight table. One noticeably solid player who I ended up heads up with and half the stack with others making frustration calls as things stretched out. No real excitement to report. I got second with patience and the occasional hand. Only one loose player at the table and he was a luckbox all the way. Happily, he went ( Read more... )

I probably had stupid one. I'd had a fairly decent go and got chopped back a bit. Hand came up between two of us and I held AK--which I am very selective to raise. As the button I did and was reraised by the BB. The flop came xTQ and the BB went all in. I was suspicious. He was a fairly short stack and the bet made me think weak. I had the ( Read more... )

Yesterday, I played two SnGs. I shoulda stood in bed. I looked, felt, acted like a donkey. I was as card dead as it gets in both. Trying to manufacture a game with nothing is going to make one into a perceived donkey. And yesterday, my ears grew like Pinocchio's nose as the games progressed. My original bankroll on FT went slightly red today ( Read more... )

Today's post doesn't need a title. The date says it all. I browsed the Reuters site today. They were showing a reading of the names and readers of a particular sequence got to mention their loved one in a bit more detail and anguish. I shared again, like I did 5-years ago, their anguish and tears. And, contrary to some reporting views, I have ( Read more... )

I went out quickly in the third one I played. It was a rock of a table. I had a bit of conversation in a forum about the loose-aggresive world that SnGs had become. Well, in my early play we would see such tables and not that infrequently. Being able to adjust is one of those things that marks improvements to your game.

Yup, played one little SnG and positively killed. I was short stack at times but never for long. Played a bit more aggressive earlier than I normally do. Yesterday, I was in deep doo-doo until a rush; today, that wasn't a problem. I had good reads and put them to use. Based on a couple of frustration calls, I got to several players and they ( Read more... )