Seat Open

Posted by wynn on Jan 28, 2010 in Buy-in, Donkeys, Table Talk | 0 comments

I have played my last hand of poker. It is time to find a new source of income. One without extreme disappointment and longshot odds. What is driving this? In addition to me being generally tired of playing with bad players, drunks, and scumbags? I have taken some brutal bad beats lately. Especially yesterday. I lose to the worst players and they give the money...

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Mary Lou

Posted by wynn on Jan 27, 2010 in Donkeys, Great Reads, Table Talk | 0 comments

Remember the Bob Seger song Mary Lou? It reminds me of how people play pocket Queens wrong. It goes something like this: I’m gonna tell you a story ’bout Mary Lou You know the kind of woman make a fool of you She make a young man itch She man an old man faint The way she took my money was a crying shame Mary Lou she took my watch and chain Mary Lou...

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Get Away

Posted by wynn on Jan 26, 2010 in Donkeys, Great Reads, Table Talk | 0 comments

I tried an experiment yesterday to confirm what I already know. What the hell, I was bored. Brunson’s Super System says you cannot put a play on a weak player. You must showdown the best hand. This, I already know from playing with weak players. Sometimes, I need validation. I am in a hand with a guy that raises to $20 pre-flop. I call. A player behind...

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Tipsy

Posted by wynn on Jan 25, 2010 in Buy-in, Table Talk | 0 comments

You can tell how a person plays cards by the way they tip (or don’t tip) the dealers. Players in the casino for the first time generally do not tip the dealers at all. Drunks and donkeys tend to tip too much. Grinders and rounders tend to tip the right amount. So, the question is how much to tip and why. The first thing I do when I am in a poker room for...

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Five Blanks

Posted by wynn on Jan 24, 2010 in Great Reads, Table Talk | 0 comments

Sometimes, things just work out. I am in a no limit game last night. Heads up against a player on my immediate left. I have a small pocket pair. My read is my opponent is holding A-X. The board is five blanks. No Aces, no paint. I check call all the way. On the river, I feel my pair is good. When I show the pair, I get a speech. “How could you call with...

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