The photo shoot was last Thursday and everything went even better than I expected. The photographer did a fantastic job, and so did all of my actors/poker players. I've now got a lot of photos to wade through to find the best ones. I've also got a lot of editing to do on the manuscript. All-in-all, I estimate I'll have it ready to be sent to the book designer within a couple months. ...
Archives for December 2010
Limit player who holds chips defensively
Live fixed-limit, full-ring Hold'em hands that interest me enough to spend much time analyzing them are pretty rare, just because so many of the decisions are pretty straight-forward. I've got a hand here from a few days ago that I've been thinking a while about. It's a hand I probably could have played a bit better and that seems obvious in hindsight. The hand involves a couple of common tells so ...
Long-term mindset and handling variance
I hadn't played limit in a few months and then I played four long days of 15-30 over the course of the last couple weeks. I had a pretty rough swing on the first two days - lost $800 the first day and $1250 the next day. This was a pretty decent setback for my bankroll, considering I've only been able to play about a day a week on average this year. But it got me thinking about a few leaks in my ...