Good Gone Bad

Posted by wynn on Jul 13, 2010 in Bluffs, Donkeys, Great Reads, Table Talk | 0 comments

“You flop a set ?” one of my opponents asks on the flop. I guess I played bad. That is all I can come up with when I replay the hand in my head. Here is what happened. I figure the player on my immediate right has a hand like A-Q or A-J when he raised to $75 pre-flop. I called with A-10d knowing I could outplay him on the flop. The player on my...

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Defiance

Posted by wynn on Jun 30, 2010 in Bluffs, Donkeys | 4 comments

Played in a private game last night near Defiance, Ohio. What a bunch of big talking donkeys. It was sick. Not a single card player at the table. The buy-in was $2500. Now, for me, an average night is a double-up. The cards usually act in defiance of me going 10X. Until last night that is. Walked out with just over $25,000. Thank goodness for donkeys that rebuy...

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Play the Player

Posted by wynn on Jun 22, 2010 in Bluffs, Great Reads, Table Talk | 1 comment

Everyone always talks about “playing the player”. What they are really doing is determining a range of hands their opponent is playing and trying to be one starting hand better than that. The best example of this that comes to mind is someone I used to play with in Black Hawk. She would always say “I am playing the player” anytime she...

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My 7 Deuce Game

Posted by wynn on May 27, 2010 in Bluffs, Table Talk | 2 comments

Damn! I can’t tell you how much I have missed playing No Limit Texas Hold ‘Em on a regular basis. Being forced to play spread limit because it was the only game in town was torture by comparison. It has been 7 months since I  played my 7-2 game. Many of you may be surprised that I would play the worst starting hand in poker. On purpose. But, once a...

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Back in the Motor City

Posted by wynn on Apr 13, 2010 in Bluffs, Table Talk | 0 comments

After spending the better part of six months playing spread limit Hold ‘Em in Black Hawk, Colorado, I am damn glad to be back in the Motor City playing no limit full-time. It has been six months since I got to outplay anyone on the flop with 7-2 off. In my first session back, I got one good player to laydown and show K-K when I flopped a pair of 9s and...

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