June 3, 2010
- Not another poker cheating scandal!
Wherever you look these days there are cheating scandals with regards to online poker. The latest one with the Chinese on Poker Stars can hardly come as any surprise to anyone. I mean, I wrote countless articles on this years ago and was condemned as a doom monger but look at it now. I’m afraid [...]
April 26, 2010
- The Future is……Vulture
After doing loads of writing and staking during the past few months, the amount of poker that I have been playing has dropped through the floor. It seems like yesterday that I was playing $25-$50 NLHE last year and it also seems that the levels that I am playing at are dropping like a stone. [...]
April 21, 2010
- The Quest
Recently I have undertaken to do a $100-$10k challenge starting with $6 buy-in games. I am ahead by $23 so far after spewing millions of dollars or what seems like it. I don’t know why I do these self imposed challenges but I am just a glutton for punishment I guess.
The latest results for the [...]
February 2, 2010
- A good day yesterday
Everything seemed to go my way yesterday, I had someone contact me from ages ago with some money that they owed me that I had actually written off so that was nice. Then the job that needed doing on my car ended up being nothing to worry about.
Then I get news that The Jackal won [...]
January 30, 2010
- Apologies for not posting
I have to apologise for not posting lately as often as what I have promised. But the good news……starting 1st Feb is that this will be a daily blog except for the 14th Feb when I am taking the missus somewhere special for Valentines Day.
Things have been really hectic lately and I have finally got [...]
January 25, 2010
- The Jackal is doing the business
I am $414 ahead so far with the Jackal but I am running into difficulties in playing enough hours and this may be even more of a problem next month. I have managed to play around 2.5k hands so the earn rate so far is $16.56/100 hands. This equates to $4.13/100 per table or just [...]
January 21, 2010
- So Funny I Rolled
I was playing a NL400 heads up last night when the following hand came up. I was in the big blind with 10s-6s. I had bought in for $400 and had watched a certain player for a while. They had run well and had amassed around $1000. I was a little up on them [...]
January 14, 2010
- 6 max system: The Jackal
Recent readers of Pokersharkpool will have missed my challenge last year to show that a player with little bankroll could make a living wage playing NLHE cash games. Just to fill in recent readers, I made $25/hour multi-tabling NL50 full-ring games over 75k hands.
When you spend most of the time folding then this isn’t difficult [...]
January 11, 2010
- A Good Weekend in More Ways Than One
Played three more poker sessions since the last post and I seem to have started the year like a freight train! I had a huge near miss yesterday when I was considering backing Dave Chisnell to win the BDO World Darts Final. If I could have managed to get better than Evens then I would [...]
January 6, 2010
- I may have a better feel for this
I have played two more sessions of $200 six handed PLO since last post and I have further success to report. I won $97 last night and a further $191 the previous session which now takes me nearly $900 ahead on the year so far. I have dropped down to one table and I find [...]
January 4, 2010
- A couple of lucky escapes
I almost had two bets that would have lost out yesterday. I almost laid Phil Taylor at really short odds to win the PDC World Darts Championship and didn’t and also Arsenal at West Ham yesterday in the FA Cup. Something didn’t feel right and I swerved them both and was happy when both [...]
January 3, 2010
- A good start to 2010
It’s only January 3rd and already I am having second thoughts about my New Years resolution not to play PLO. A close friend of mine and someone who I can trust with all things poker reckons that I must be out of my mind to ditch PLO this year. He reckons that I should be [...]
December 28, 2009
- What has 2009 been like?
I really don’t know how best to describe 2009, I think it has been eventful but odd in the same way. Many of my goals and projects have not come to fruition and that has been a disappointment.
BIGGEST DISSAPOINTMENTS OF THE YEAR
1. Having less time to play poker is pretty much up there but I [...]
December 23, 2009
- Christmas gifts……but not for me
Been a while since I posted but you know how it is this time of year. I have been playing some online poker due to having more down time and I have to confess that I have been making some people very happy this Christmas. I lost $1100 playing $2-$4 PLO, $1600 playing heads up [...]
December 17, 2009
- Starting to hit a good run
Played some more poker this week, I am starting to find some more time although Christmas is going to get in the way so last night may have been my last session for a while. I was playing heads at NL400 which is about the lowest level that motivates me when heads up.
I had been [...]
December 15, 2009
- My new poker book is out
Just wanted to say that I received my new poker book yesterday “Winning Cash Game Poker” and it fills me with pride to have written a book on poker. The book is basically about my thoughts on poker but I dare say that it will get knocked in a few quarters. The book has [...]
December 13, 2009
- It felt good to tilt someone
I played my first online poker in a while yesterday and played heads up at NL400. I knew that this player was good and probably better than me but I just fancied taking him on……yes yes I know.
Anyway we had been playing for about 30 hands or so and I am ahead by about $100 [...]
December 10, 2009
- Expected value is key
I had an e-mail a few days ago from someone who was confused about the Isaac Haxton video and my comments about it. Simply it is to do with various factors and the main one being how expected value is more important as the field size shrinks.
Let us look at a six handed example, you [...]
November 21, 2009
- Sit and go play
A few years ago I played SNG’s quite seriously for about four to five months. I think as I recall I played something like around 700 of them and returned around 15% ROI. Times have changed of course and the games have become seriously tougher recently. Back when I played them, you really didn’t need [...]
November 20, 2009
- Maybe the start of something
Isn’t it amazing how when you look back over your life you can seen how you have transcended from one stage to another. Actually I quite like that word “transcend” because it accurately fits in with how life is in general. Sometimes something happens that drives you down certain paths.
What is all this leading to? [...]
