Category Archives: Hand History

A detailed description of my hand history/histories.

The Dreaded Ace

One of the easiest mistake to do as a poker player is to overplay a great pre-flop hands (like AA, KK, QQ, AK, AQ) on a bad flop. It is important to remember that, even though they often win you big pots, the aces can also make you lose a lot of money. This is [...]
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Being Too Aggressive

If you like playing texas hold’em then you know what I’m talking about. Every once in a while you get that itch to test your opponent by over valuing your hand. We all know the best strategy is to be what most would call “tight-aggressive” and you’ll see in the following hand that I was [...]
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Good Or Bad?

Here’s a tough one for you. I’m playing this one table SNG and after playing for about 40 min. we’re down to 3 players meaning that you’re sure of making a profit. The question is how much depending on your position. Anyways here’s how it went down. - Level IX (300/600) - 9-max Seat #3 [...]
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Classical Showdowns

When reaching towards the end of your single-table or multi-table tournament it’s important to start playing aggressive because with the blinds going up and your stack being proportionally smaller every blind you win will add big to your stack so you don’t want to take chances when you raise you want to make a decent [...]
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Losing Pocket Kings

Doesn’t happen and shouldn’t happen too often but when it does, losing a monster such as pocket Kings is always devastating. Why? Well The only hole cards better than yours is pocket Aces. In a single-table or multi-table tournament you will usually win big when all you’re chips are in the middle. The odds of [...]
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