Showing posts with label poker stars. Show all posts
Showing posts with label poker stars. Show all posts

October 14, 2008

30 Things About Me

100% Me1, I have a birthmark on my left shoulder blade.

2, I have an incontrollable fear for rats.

3, I like big cities, for it makes me invisible.

4, I am sensitive and nostalgic.

5, I am lack of the itching sense.

6, My favorite precious stone is sapphire.

7, I am odorless, but also a fan of garlic.

8, I am not able to shout in a high voice.

9, I have never been abroad.

10, I learn poker terms not to win, but to enlarge my bank of ideas.

11, I would avoid all the fish dishes in general.

12, I admire the elephant not only because it's cute. I have a short memory .

13, I am an optimistic poker player. It kills me wishing the next lucky card.

14, I tend to please the people I like.

15, I want to do bizarre things and think of original ideas.

16, I once drank grapefruit juice with coffee; it's a really powerful combination.

17, I can tell the Mahjong tile by my fingers; 80 per cent of the estimates are correct.

18, I am afraid of losing my job.

19, There is no reason for me to lose my job.

20, I panic when I am in high places.

21, I shudder when smelling liquor; after-effect of an overdrinking in a high-school reunion.

22, I snore like a mini tractor.

23, I am left-handed; since 5 years old, I write with my right hand.

24, I visit online poker rooms frequently.

25, I used to pack up and tried to leave home at 9 years old.

26, I believe in afterlife.

27, I fall into sleep within 2 minutes after my back touches the bed.

28, I am a sponge to useless information.

29, I think in English though my mother tongue is another one.

30, I have a collection of autographs from a bunch of poker stars.

September 10, 2008

Double-edged sword—Dangerous Starting poker hands

What is the most dangerously deceiving starting hand for an amateur player in Texas Hold'em?


Many poker stars would argue that A-Q suited is among the top 10 best poker hands. The first thing to accept is that A-Q suited is not a top 10 hand, but does make it into the top 20. If you played ABC poker by following a chart of hands, A-Q suited (A-Qs) is one you would never play in early position, and would only play in an unraised or unopened pot in middle to late. That explains why it is called as the worst best hand a player can start with.

Personally, I follow the straight-forward poker strategy: Call with a draw hand only when you have the pot odds to justify it. And I learned my lesson from some resources that a tie such as AQ, KQ, and QJ. Those are death hands to be avoided at all costs, especially if your opponent has made any aggressive move pre-flop.

At this point in poker's life, many top players believed that J-T suited was the best starting hand in poker. It was the highest suited connector possible with full straight potential. It doesn't "dead end" on the top end as Q-J would.

After all, every person has his own criteria on how to judge a hand as good or bad. Either you follow the golden poker rules, which is how people do at the table most of times, or you can do things your own way. Nothing is impossible and nothing has extremes. Just be yourself.