While having a “vacancy” from my poker life (yeah, I’ve lost $85 in a $0.50/$1 Limit Texas Hold’em game) I was watching how other people are playing poker. Accidentally, I’ve found a high stakes ($200/$400) heads up table at FullTiltPoker. Ouch, it was Robert Mizrachi playing against Quiet Lion. Robert Mizrachi (Nicknamed “Who’s Bad”) is [...]

Whenever something becomes popular, it automatically generates a lot of “satellite stuff” around it. For example: the success of the greatest trilogy “The Lord of the Rings” by Tolkien was refreshed by the movie with the same name. After the movie, a myriad of stuff like t-shirts, jackets, watches and even jewelry appeared.
Poker is [...]

At last, I have some progress at $0.25/$0.50 tables. Of course I wanted to win my money back, so I came back to the $0.25/$0.50 tables at FullTiltPoker. I was playing with the following strategy in mind:

Having played for a while at $0.10/$0.20 tables I thought it’s time to move forward. If playing carefully (playing strong hands and rarely bluffing) I was able to win around $5 at a $0.10/$0.20 table in an hour.
I’m writing this post after 3 days of playing at $0.25/$0.50 tables. In short: I was loosing money [...]

I really enjoyed the battle between Daniel Negreanu and Gus Hansen. Just look how Gus pronounced “I’m All In” in a “shy and timid” manner! Daniel was only able to open wide his eyes and say “Ah?” and stand up like a rocket from his chair

I’ve learned that Fixed Limit Poker at low stakes is a tight game. There is no room for frequent bluffing, although bluffing can be fun when you use it rarely and when you feel (opponents are checking instead of betting for ex, or when they think too much before calling or even raising) that your [...]

When you are using something frequently (a pen, mobile phone, poker software) , usability is becoming an important factor. Last week I was playing poker for more than one hour per day at Absolute Poker. I found small annoyances and decided to propose some enhancements to the Absolute Poker software. When I finished this [...]

After reading the rules of poker and a couple of articles, I’ve decided to play poker online… I started to play for fun money, but quickly found out that in most cases, the players will call or even raise after the river knowing that they have nothing in their hands. The fact that you can [...]