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Archive for 'Crazy Snake'
Four Online Poker Tells
In a group of experienced poker players it becomes increasingly difficult to read tells and pick up on bluffs and semi-bluffs. The main reason is that the longer you spend with someone the more likely they are to pick up on your vibe and vice versa. Now you might expect that to mean it is [...]
Full StorySix Ways To Make A Profit Playing Micro Limit Poker
It’s all very well to have the roll to play high stakes poker and prove your star status, but for some just playing the game on a modest budget for some entertainment and perhaps, profit, is equally worthwhile. Down in the depths of the fish tank the waters are a bit muddier and there is [...]
Full StoryAbsence Makes the Heart Grow Fonder
Have a guess what I’ve been doing for the past week in amongst my NFL analysis and market trading? I’ve been playing Madden NFL on my Play Station. No, I haven’t invested in an Xbox 360 because my kids would drive me crazy playing it and I would have to ban them and myself for [...]
Full StoryJoe Versus the Volcano
There has been a massive amount of discussion about the legitimacy of online poker, in particular with regards to the amount of rigging that is purported to have occurred. Now before you all start reaching for your phones to contact your lawyer friend with an axe to grind let me assure you that I am [...]
Full StoryPerceptual Positions on the Felt
As many of you that read my stuff will know, I am more than a little reluctant to write mainstream poker articles. I figure there is a proliferation of strategy advice out there and with the growth of the game world wide there is an ever increasing supply of “how to” opinions. I make no [...]
Full StoryCongruency Signals
There’s an old saying in behavioural modelling circles: “Once is luck, twice is coincidence, thrice is a pattern.” It’s sometimes a little difficult to get 3 examples of the same behavioural pattern at a poker table, but sometimes you aren’t looking for the most useful and information-packed pattern. In order to even know you are [...]
Full StoryThe Revenge of the Fish
Sometimes when writing an article I get tired of constructing a scenario to illustrate a point. This has nothing to do with laziness or apathy but primarily because most of the “constructed” scenarios are from my personal history and I have to relive them every time I write about them. Inevitably, the hands are ones [...]
Full StoryRide the Roller Coaster
Inevitably when you play poker for any length of time the ups and downs will come and go like the cycles of the moon. If only poker cycles were as predictable as that! Only one thing is certain; that as a poker player you will experience as many rushes as lean runs. I have witnessed [...]
Full StoryTilt Mechanism II
This was the first time he had seriously confronted what he was doing, and the force of that awareness came very abruptly- with a surging of his pulse and a frantic pounding in his head. He was about to gamble his life on that table, and the insanity of that risk filled him with a [...]
Full StoryThe Tilt Mechanism
In the days of pinball, ‘TILT’ was the inevitable result of giving the oversized chrome bearing too much ‘English’. This was usually the result of the ball not behaving as it should, which led the controller of the ball to lose state and begin trying to force the ball to do as it was told. [...]
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