The Surly Poker Gnome

Variance as it relates to poker is difficult to understand, both because the element of luck is hard to quantify and the mathematical functi...

After a long road of busting fish, taking small edges and building bankroll, you hope for that golden opportunity in which you'll be abl...

One of the things I've quickly noticed at 5/10 NL and above is that the squeeze play becomes a common and important move. It isn't j...

I don't know what it was exactly that made me think limit hold 'em would be more profitable than no limit. Part of it was the allure...

There will be on action aplenty Sunday, and I hope to see a lot of people playing. There's the Big Game, hosted by MiamiDon ! And we hav...

Seldom do you know exactly where you stand in a contentious hand. Most postflop decisions can be characterized as an "either/or" s...

--- EasyE left a very useful comment on my post about attempts to make PokerAce HUD work faster when multitabling on Full Tilt (edited to i...

Man, if you dig on zombie movies, I don't know how you can dislike "28 Weeks Later." It was fantastic. I read one review that ...

I like Full Tilt, but their software has always caused some people problems, especially since an upgrade a few of months ago to include res...

After paying taxes this year, I quickly decided it was time for me to stop doing them by hand and find a tax accountant. Taxes are a pain, t...

After sending a cashier's check for $1,500 to the WSOP folks, I received an e-mail confirming my payment for event No. 12, the 6-max NL ...

OK, so seven random things about me, after being tagged by Scurvy and Glyph: 1. I've held a lot of jobs, including landscaping, Chick-Fi...

Thought of the day that I don't want to write a whole post about: Many losing players could beat online no limit hold 'em at low to ...

"No one should rest. People who are doing that are setting themselves up for failure in the future." --Taylor Caby April was a gre...

I chipped up in the Sunday $400K Guaranteed tourney mostly from steals, a timely bluff with 95o and a double-up with KK. Pretty standard. Th...

I've felt very comfortable with my revised PokerAce layout. It's similar to my old layout, but I've removed both total Aggressio...

Sometime last fall I finally felt like I got to a point where I could make good laydowns with strong preflop hands like AA and KK. It's ...

"The Children of Hurin," which was released last week, is supposedly the last of J.R.R. Tolkien's works to be edited and publ...

I'm planning to play in my first World Series event! It'll be the $1,500 buy-in 6-max No Limit event that starts at noon on Thursday...

Cliff Notes: MyWebATM sucks and won't let me open an account because I'm debt-free. Since Congress passed a law that limits deposit ...