Recent Posts Tagged With 'sit and go'

• Poker starting hands - time for a rethink?

  Posted on Thursday May 21st, 2009 at 07:04 in Poker, las vegas, sit and go, flop, tournament, atlantic city, starting hands

  There's a reason why Googling "starting hands" throws up 24,500,000 entries.After all, as Julie Andrews observed, "Let's start at the very beginning. That's a very good place to start."And I'm struggling to pick any holes in this article by Matt Pusa...

• Limit holdem not limited enough

  Posted on Tuesday May 12th, 2009 at 15:45 in Poker, texas hold 'em, sit and go, no limit, bobby bowden, phil hellmuth, limit poker

  It took precisely three sessions of limit Texas holdem last week to remind me why I gave it up for sit and go poker and why 'limit' may be one of the game's biggest misnomers.A reluctance to be beaten by anything meant that I spent this year's enforc...

• Beating low-limit sit and gos

  Posted on Friday May 8th, 2009 at 15:28 in Gambling, las vegas, sit and go, steve wynn

  Finally, an online article on tournament poker strategy that isn't just a few sketchy basics. I like this bit in particular, which adds a little finesse to the continuation bet (c-bet) theory..."Whenever you see a flop against 2 or more players, you ...

• 'Sit & Go Strategy' - review

  Posted on Thursday June 5th, 2008 at 17:49 in Poker, wsop, freerolls, sit and go, poker pic of the day, moshman, deep stack

  Collin Moshman's book Sit 'n Go Strategy is reviewed over at the United Poker Forum........................................................................................Life after a bankroll - when your last cent has gone but the itch still needs t...

• Chipophilia - how does Big Stack stop the bleeding?

  Posted on Thursday May 29th, 2008 at 19:00 in racing, sit and go, vegas, big stack, bachelor party, kentucky derby, poker pic of the day, bleeding chips, mclelland

  My 40-day read-through of Harrington on Hold 'Em Vol. 1 and Vol. 2 during Lent this year has had undoubted pay-offs, as I frequently find myself doubled-up by the time my $5 sit and gos reach the middle stages.This, however, brings problems of its ow...

• Don't look my way as Vaughn's Bluff is called

  Posted on Tuesday December 11th, 2007 at 07:52 in online poker, sit and go

  And so the spectre of online wrongdoing now hovers over the poker media itself. Every journalist knows it's usually time to go when he himself has become the story.Obviously, you only have my word for this, but I feel it is incumbent upon every poker...

• Annie Duke - don't live off the fat of the hands

  Posted on Tuesday November 27th, 2007 at 07:43 in sit and go, annie duke, bullworker

  Interesting article on how poker player Annie Duke keeps in shape - seeing flops needn't mean seeing flab.I'm doing my own bit for fitness in the face of all odds, incidentally. Two S&Gs a night - the first with a laptop perched on a board across...

• Poker & Gambling - tips, observations and nonsense

  Posted on Saturday October 13th, 2007 at 04:00 in Gambling, Poker, reno, Seinfeld, sit and go, vegas, maguire, greg raymer, salvation army, bellagio, heads-up, costanza

  Snippet Saturday here at Wagering War:Encouraging though it is to learn that 99.4% of Britons enjoy gambling responsibly, I don't believe this statistic should lessen concerns about the separate issue of gambling advertising. The more advertisers bom...