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ProPokerPlayer · Oct 1, 2009

These are the finest series of articles i believe on the web. http://www.cardplayer.com/search?field=author&q=Alan+Schoonmaker

Take the effort to read 1 a day....not sure if we can post the entire articles here but if anyone wants to discuss certain parts or theorys feel free to ....

bigdaveyt · Oct 3, 2009

Will the articles help me with the hand below? LOL, j/k. I'm getting closer to finally winning one.

Hand#2007617BAC001379 - $1 NL Hold'em T6388652 -- Table 21 -- $600/$3,000/$6,000 NL Hold'em -- 2009/10/03 - 15:33:31
Seat 1: I STILL WIN ($62,535 in chips)
Seat 3: penw***3 ($80,956 in chips)
Seat 4: Murp***4 ($93,615 in chips)
Seat 5: vanp***5 ($48,176 in chips) DEALER
SHAKY PAPA posts ante of 600
I STILL WIN posts ante of 600
penwell63 posts ante of 600
Murph*0 posts ante of 600
vanpen63 posts ante of 600
I STILL WIN: posts small blind 3,000
penw***3: posts big blind 6,000
Dealt to I STILL WIN [6d,9h]
Murp***4: folds
vanp***5: folds
SHAK***6: folds
I STILL WIN: raises to 15,550
penw***3: calls 9,550
*** FLOP *** [9d,4h,3d]
I STILL WIN: bets 14,999
penw***3: is all in 64806.0000
I STILL WIN: is all in 31386.0000
penw***3: returns uncalled bet 18,421
I STILL WIN: shows [6d 9h]
penw***3: shows [4s Qs]
*** TURN *** [Ad]
*** RIVER *** [Qh]
***SHOW DOWN***
penw***3: wins 126,870 with Two Pairs, Queens and Fours
I STILL WIN finished 5 out of 264 players.

fivestarjake · Oct 4, 2009

i'm deposting 100 in stars today. i'm going to enter $5 and below tourneys. no need to overthink my hands or anything if i got anything decent i'm pushing. everyone else it seems plays like that. looks like the reason why when the tourney is just 10-15 mins in and people are already running with big chip stacks. i'm joining the masses. i'm sure once i'm big stacked the stars "random" generator will take care of me. always seems like when the bigger stacks push or call with shit they hit those miracle cards to oust the lower stacks.

ProPokerPlayer · Oct 4, 2009

Played till 2am this morning, set the alarm so i could waste $33 in an $11 rebuy sunday million satty. After that fiasco i somehow ended up in a 1/2PL Holdem cash game. Pot after Pot over $150 and i cant get a hand for shit. Finally managed to hit a few. was up over $300 before the doomswitch kicked in and i dropped about 90 of it back. Best game ive seen on Stars in a longgggggggg time..

maheha · Oct 13, 2009

As far as "must reads" go, Phil Galfonds BLUFF articles are one of the best collections from any magazine I have ever read

http://www.bluffmagazine.com/magazine/byWriter.asp?formWriterID=215

other options include a membership to a training site, cardrunners, pokervt, pokersavvyplus, deucescracked

personally I am a member of deuces cracked, and it is worth it