Poker Articles

June 2005 - Posts

• Across the Rio - chapter 5 of ESPoker

  
  

  Carl was a car fanatic so of course he had rented what I thought was a serious waste of money for the five minute trip from the MGM to the Rio each day. It was one of those Italian sports cars with doors that rose straight up and about three inches of... Read More... Posted Jun 30 2005, 09:03 AM by seal with No Comments

• Frustration

  
  

  After so many bad beat stories and so many posts concerning maddening play, I decided to address the issue of frustration. There is no way to explain how many times I have been sucked out on and how horrible some of the beats are that I’ve taken in the... Read More... Posted Jun 30 2005, 02:43 AM by Wachovia with No Comments

• Women in poker

  
  

  It has been awhile since I have written an article for the site. This time, I wanted to do my homework before I jumped into the subject. I have spoken to many of the male and female players that I know to get opinions on women who play poker, and the... Read More... Posted Jun 29 2005, 03:30 AM by SusieQue with No Comments

• My First WSOP: Part 1 – I’m gonna rip you a new one!

  
  

  Part 1 of a 2 part series about my first trip to the World Series of Poker. I had been playing poker for almost exactly 18 months when I made my first trip to WSOP to play a $2,500 NL and a $2,500 PL event. After reading about the turn-out for the first... Read More... Posted Jun 28 2005, 04:27 AM by AawwNutz with No Comments

• Second thoughts - chapter 4 of ESPoker

  
  

  I have always hated to fly. Ever since I was six and my mother the travel agent took our family on a grand trip to south America. First we went to Lima, Peru and took an excursion up to see the ruins at Machu Pichu. I barely remember that part of the... Read More... Posted Jun 27 2005, 09:25 AM by seal with No Comments

• Taking the Plunge

  
  

  I was reading through the forums today, and noticed the huge thread about TranquilChaos quitting his job to play full time. I've also received a ton of email from people who want to do the same thing, so I thought it might be time to offer my humble opinion... Read More... Posted Jun 23 2005, 03:39 AM by Fox with No Comments

• Random Ramblings on Vegas

  
  

  WSOP To start I was impressed with the Rio and how they had set the place up for the tourneys. The room is big enough to play in and also hold ever running sats. I was also intrigued by the few booths that were set up around the outside of the room, so... Read More... Posted Jun 22 2005, 02:57 PM by seal with No Comments

• Guest Article: Analyzing your game through means outside of poker

  
  

  Recently I took a break from my poker game because of finals, and I decided I needed to analyze my game from top to bottom in order to figure out why I was doing well sometimes, while other times getting myself on tilt from making bad decisions. Well... Read More... Posted Jun 21 2005, 02:28 AM by Jon_Nilsen21 with No Comments

• Know your table image and USE IT

  
  

  I was playing in the WSOP event #2 ($1500 NLHE, 2305 entrants) when the following situation occurred. I am going to describe a particularly interesting hand, but this is not about the hand; it is about the resulting table image from this hand. You will... Read More... Posted Jun 17 2005, 04:09 AM by klslcz with No Comments

• Foxwoods - chapter 3 of ESPoker

  
  

  This is chapter 3 of ESPoker - chapters 1 + 2 are in my blog. As we came over the hill in Carl’s black jaguar I took off my mirrored Oakley shades and just stared. Rising up in the distance through the early morning New England fog like a great king’s... Read More... Posted Jun 15 2005, 11:51 AM by seal with No Comments