PokerSnowie, a bot designed to teach you to play fundamentally sound poker, recently updated their algorithm, making the bot’s strategy even better. They also added a few new features, such as a “tips” option, that explains why you should make the plays that Snowie suggests.
I decided to play a few sessions to see how I fared. …
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This blog post is an experiment. I have been trying to figure out a good way to help amateur poker players better understand how to put players on hand ranges in a clear, easy to understand format. I am considering writing a book using the format below and I want to see what you think about it. Please let me know in the Comment section below. Thank you!
This blog post would likely be near the end of the book, after it is fully discussed how to put someone on a reasonable preflop range. I also have to figure out how to add weighted ranges in a visual format. Writing books is hard work!
Preflop
At 100/200-25 with 25,000 effective stacks, a good, loose, aggressive played raised to 525 from the lojack seat.
The lojack’s preflop raising range is:
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I recently had the pleasure of traveling to Hollywood Florida to play in a tournament series at the Seminole Hard Rock. Over the course of two weeks, I played three major events with buy-ins of $3,500, $10,000, and $15,000. In the middle of day 1 of the $10,000 event, I found myself in a difficult spot where I think I paid my opponent off incorrectly. …
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In this video blog, I share with you my adventures from the second two weeks of the 2016 World Series of Poker. I played another Global Poker League match, cashed in two high buy-in WSOP events, and discussed making a baby. I am excited for the future!
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With the WSOP quickly approaching, I would like to share with you a concept that many amateur players are either unaware of or completely ignore. Most amateur players do not lose because they are bad at poker. They are usually not much better or worse than their competition. Instead, they lose because the casino consistently rakes away a significant amount of money in play. The rake, the money the casino takes in exchange for letting you play, is a key determining factor of whether or not any game is potentially profitable. …
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Since the WSOP Main Event is just around the corner, today I am going to share with you the first 10 hands I played in the 2014 WSOP Main Event. While I didn’t make an extremely deep run, I did end up cashing for $22,678. I actually recorded every significant hand I played in this tournament (54 hands) and made them into the book, Cashing the WSOP Main Event. If you like this blog post, you will love The Main Event. …
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I don’t usually write about spots that come up infrequently but recently I witnessed this hand I thought was uniquely instructive. Everyone started with about 150 big blinds. Player A in 1st position raised to 3 big blinds, Player B, a good tight aggressive kid in 2nd position, reraised to 8 big blinds and Player C, a mediocre loose aggressive kid in 3rd position, 4-bet to 22 big blinds. …
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I have been spending a lot of time working on my game recently, and one of my favorite tools to use is ICMizer’s SNG Coach feature. This program puts you in numerous tricky situations and you have to decide which hands you should go all-in with and which you should fold. While I am decently good at these situations, I am far from perfect. I am confident that if I study diligently, I will eventually become quite close to perfect. Since I strive to bring you the best educational poker content, here are two videos two me studying with ICMizer’s SNG Coach feature. Be sure to click the “full screen” option at the bottom right of the video so you can see all the numbers. …
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I have been studying poker a ton recently and one of my favorite programs to work with is PokerSnowie. Since I strive to constantly bring you the best training material possible, I decided to record a few videos of me studying for you to watch. These two videos are of me playing against PokerSnowie’s Challenge feature, which essentially lets me play against a number of “perfect”-playing bots. It is useful to see how they react to my play and also how they approach common situations. If you play against excellent players on a regular basis, if you play significantly different than these bots, you are almost certainly making significant errors. …
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Due to the popularity of my recent blog post where I reviewed 5 hands from an EPT event, in this blog post I am going to share with you the last 5 hands I played during the final two levels of day 1a of the $3,500 buy-in World Poker Tour Borgata Winter Poker Open. I had a difficult seat, with 3-time WPT Champion Anthony Zinno and WSOP Main Event Champion Joe McKeehen on my left, but I did my best. I will give my analysis of each situation to let you know exactly why I made each play. Would you have played these hands I played them? Let me know in the comments section below. …
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