The Surly Poker Gnome

My last post kind of sucked. I didn't put enough thought into it, and my calculations were all based on estimates. So take it with a gra...

Which is more profitable for the same money investment: limit or no limit hold em? Winrates for a good limit player are estimated at about 2...

Why wait till the turn to raise? Why not just pop it on the flop? More and more, I'm thinking that putting in a raise on the flop in lim...

I've updated my blogroll to highlight some of my new favorite blogs. Some of them have been around for a while, some are newer, but they...

I just folded Kings preflop. I don't know if I've ever done that before. I raised preflop to $3 from early position in this .5/1 NL ...

I finished 39th out of 892 entrants in the $17,000 guaranteed tournament yesterday! The payout was only $64 on a $26 buy-in, but I was glad ...

Online poker is rigged. Why would anyone vote for Phil over Bill? --- This experiment of playing 10 tables at a time of .10/.25 no limit is ...

Heh. Kuro was joking with me today, saying I was like a George Costanza of poker. Like a guy who would congratulate himself for winning in t...

I decided to try something new: 11 tabling. It's a little crazy. The tables and cards just keep coming -- it's hard to keep up. I de...

At first this was going to be a whiny bad beat post, then I wanted to write a poker-is-fun post, but now I've settled on a compromise: t...

I did my federal and state income taxes last night, and they weren't nearly as bad as I expected. Because I spent half of last year in C...

Stop the presses! I had my first winning day of the month! I finished up $101 on the $40 monthly William Hill bonus, plus I had $286 in rake...

WPEX credited the rakeback to its customers accounts by noon Eastern time on Tueday. I received about $280, which is a really nice boost. D...

While the promise of a rakefree poker site is difficult to refuse, the World Poker Exchange isn't quite there yet. They started their 1...

I opened up my car door at 1 a.m. to find papers strewn across the seats, my glove compartment ransacked, my change drawer emptied. I'd ...

Rakefree!!! I didn't hear about this until today, but apparently this offer started Monday. This is big news. Rakefree is something that...

Today was great. The only downside is that I forgot to bring my camera! I left this morning on a tour of farms around the island for an arti...

I should probably take a break from poker, at least for a couple of days. Everything has been going OK, with small losses today and yesterda...

I don't have anything useful to say about poker. The play has been decent, and I'm glad there's a new month of blackjack bonuses...

Heh. I went to look in my spreadsheet, and it turns out that March has been a profitable month after all. I'm amazed sometimes at how mu...