Psychological Fortitude

musclememoryHappy New Year! Strive to ensure this year is the best yet!

I recently played a World Poker Tour event at Borgata in Atlantic City. Around halfway through day two, a kid who seemed to play reasonably well lost with 2-2 versus A-9 on A-9-2 for a significant pot. He was left with a 20 big blind stack. He continued to play a solid strategy and eventually got all-in with K-K versus A-Q to bust around an hour later. A little while later near the end of day two, I watched another player who seemed to play well lose a huge pot with 10-10 versus Ad-Jd on 10d-7c-4s-2d. He was also left with 20 big blinds and proceeded to go all-in with roughly 50% of hands until he eventually got lucky to double up when he was dominated. …

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4 Habits that Stuck

Happy-new-year-best-wishes-wallpapers-3Happy New  Year!!!

For those who don’t know me, I experiment constantly in every aspect of my life. In poker, if I see world-class players having success with a specific play I rarely use, I will try it out and see what happens. If I hear about an amazing new breakthrough in nutrition from a trusted authority, I will give it a try. If I think something could benefit my life, I give it a shot. While most of these things eventually fall by the wayside, in honor of the New Year, I am going to share with you four habits I have stuck with over the long term. …

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2015 EPT Prague Video Blog

In this video blog, I share with you the sights and sounds of the 2015 European Poker Tour in Prague. It was a rough 13 days for me. Please let me know what you think of this video format in the comments section below the video.

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Studying poker with ICMizer

icmizer-pokerWhen I first started playing poker, I would spend 6 hours per day grinding sit n’ go’s and 4 hours reviewing my hands using a now-defunct program called Sit N’ Go Power Tools. Eventually I moved to multi-table tournaments and stopped studying push-fold situations because I thought I knew them perfectly.

While watching the 2015 WSOP Main Event  (I review 31 hands from the final table here),  I saw someone call an all-in in a situation where I thought it could easily be bad. I knew ICMizer was the go-to final table push-fold authority, so I downloaded the program and saw that the player in question should call or fold based almost entirely on the payout structure. …

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Weekly Poker Hand #71

I use ICMizer to analyze an interesting spot from the 2015 WSOP Main Event Final Table. While raising in this spot is the “standard” play for most, I come to a drastically different conclusion. Would you have played this spot as Steinberg did or would you have picked a different option? Let me know in the comments section below. If you want to play perfectly in push/fold situations, be sure to use ICMizer to analyze your game and hone your skills.

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