Now, I know poker is a game of skill, you know poker is a game of skill - but our relatives and non-poker playing friends... what do they think of the game?? This post is a 'thought experiment' let us enter the head of one of those non-poker types for a second and see if we can understand them a little better!!
Submitted by Planet Mark on Fri, 01/22/2010 - 16:31
Logged on over the weekend and spotted yet another tournament type I had not seen before (the 'Pure Bounty At Party as it happens)... this lead to the trusty notebook coming out and a list of different types of poker tournament created. Here are my 55 different types of online poker tournament - let me know if I missed any!
Submitted by Planet Mark on Sun, 01/17/2010 - 21:44
Yes, they do have something in common! Let me explain...
Submitted by Planet Mark on Tue, 01/12/2010 - 10:25
Back when I was young (hehe) and grinding SNGs at Pokerstars , Turbo meant 5 minute blinds and games that were usually completed in 35 to 45 minutes. Since then things have been speeding up… and up… and up. Today I’d like to ask the question of whether things are getting too damn fast out there?
Submitted by Planet Mark on Tue, 01/05/2010 - 20:44
Mixed post today, the last day we will be in the Planet office before xmas!! I Wanted to cover 3 separate topics in one post... starting with an apology!
Submitted by Planet Mark on Wed, 12/23/2009 - 11:46
Yeah yeah, I know I should not… after all I spend my time writing poker articles designed to get poker players thinking clearly about their own games. But hey, I’m only human and have to admit to having a starting hand that always makes me cringe and expect the worst – however well I have been running in the game in question.
Submitted by Planet Mark on Thu, 12/17/2009 - 11:06
Just a quick post, on the subject of the 80 / 20 rule – also known as the ‘Pareto Principle’. This simply states that 80% of results comes from 20% of the effort expended, this is well established and almost disturbingly accurate in business and general life situations… have a think about it, you’ll be surprised! Now, it is also established that around 80% of poker players either lose money outright or break even on their games. Leaving 20% to make the money (heavily biased towards SNG Planet readers is my guess!).
Submitted by Planet Mark on Wed, 12/16/2009 - 15:49
A new post on an old favorite subject of mine – the idiots who think it is ‘cool’ and ‘smart’ to berate fish at the poker tables. This is a mixed games tale, for more of my writing on this subject you can pop over to Omaha Planet and check out the Mixed Game Poker section. Anyway, as usual the end of a busy day running the Planet Corp saw me relaxing with a game of cards – this time the $50 buy-in 8-game mix on Stars, a fun combo with 6 hands of each of the 8 different games. One particular player at the table was loose, passive and generally very bad, he entered most pots and only ever bet with the nuts or close to it, but called with any hand or draw – a strategy guaranteed to lose money fast. And guess what, he lost it fast, dropping half a stack or so and then reloading on 3 occasions in the 30 minutes I was there.
Submitted by Planet Mark on Mon, 12/14/2009 - 11:02