March 12, 2008
Started playing pacificpoker stars in 1995 when asked to go with a friend to a £10 tournament in Reading. I want to know if he thinks that a gambler is someone who just crawled out from under a rock or hustles bribes or deals in narcotics. The competition. Andy Glazer and Nolan Dalla. I got lucky, drew out, and built up even more residual value by playing a hand that everyone at the table probably felt I shouldn't have. In addition to extensive chapters on no-limit and pot-limit ring game and tournament strategy, the book contains several of Cloutier's famous road stories. You just have to sort of finesse your way through a tournament. An alternate and less favored strategy might be to make a significant raise with the hope of getting re-raised or called by just one other player and getting heads up for a larger pot. Besides skill and observation, does luck play a part in poker?
I like Tony also. I am more like Burgio. I am a research assistant and I've also done consulting work for the California State lottery and the Bureau of the Census, as well as for individuals. Cardrooms around the country should wake up. I just called the limpers. It's like some sort of poker bonus intuition. If 300 women enter those tournaments, and then if just 15 of them start playing pacificpoker regularly, that is a significant addition to the player pool. This diminishes the skill factor by turning the tournament into more of a crapshoot than need be... exactly the opposite of what the players want. I won the hand and, as he departed, he roundly chastised me for making an idiotic play by limping with my kings with three other limpers already in.
This may be hard to do in the older establishments, but surely it would be of benefit to the new mega resorts.
Now you are using words like toxisomething…what is that? Anyway, he put in a large raise, everyone folded, I went all in, he thought for awhile and called. I learn different, sometimes very subtle, things from each. In the next issue Richard will analyze his playing style, delve into two strategy keys to winning tournament play, and discuss five traits that he believes you must develop if you want to become a top tournament pacificpoker player. Do you think that Pacificpoker on the internet will take over from the Old fashioned Card Rooms? But this last honor, that was special. And I hadn't up in my suite but a few minutes when I got a coupla calls.
Of course I responded to his chastising of me with, "If you are such a superior player why would you try to bluff a calling station (his obvious view of me)?" I'm not one to berate anyone, but he was acting like such a jerk by not letting go that I figured that he had it coming. That reminds me, time to rent A Clockwork Orange again. I predicted (if I left) "Miami John" would overtake me and win the watch, which he did, but there were "bigger fish to fry" on the other side of the pond. On the other hand, many of them have single-digit handicaps. My advice to someone who is thinking about moving up in limit is to make sure that you are consistently beating the current limit before you play higher. I actually decided to go to both tournaments.
