Chris CollingsNew starts from across the pond.
November 7th 2007 14:04
(The less feminine lookng one on the left is me)
I'm Dave, i'm the new writer of pokerproblog.
It's never my intention to take over someones work, but with the assurance that the old writer won't come back and a great website would be going to waste, i couldn't refuse the opportunity to take up a new blog, of which i'm very interested in.
I've been playing poker for 3 years now, i've read several books and i know my stuff. I hope i can move pokerproblog forwards, without taking anything from it. The previous writer was clearly a well established writer, and he knew how to talk poker, i intend to carry this on, with my own sarcastic tint, and hopefully to open up discussion on some hands that i play every week.
In the next few weeks and months, i hope to have some lengthy blogs on the following:
Freerolls
Betting patterns
Idiots who always seem to win, yet don't understand how to play.
Hand strategies
Live vs Online poker
The best sites to play
Knowing your opponent
How to play against the good players vs the bad players
Whether betting is always the best option and continuation bets
early game straegies
late game strategies
Women in poker plus table image
And of course, anything else that you folks want to discuss, i'm really quite open to comments regarding any hands you have played or arguments against anything i say. I'll start off with a hand i played against a very good player. A player that either made a mistake or was totally stupid.
I was in a tournament last year online, a $55 multi-table, and there were 11 people left. I had the button and a quarter of the chips of the chip leader, who had about 3 times as much as anyone else, i.e i was doing well, but the chip leader (we'll call him 'chip' for irony) was murdering the table. Playing perfect poker. I checked his stats, he was good,and he was multi-tabling also. Like every other hand, he raised 3.5 times the big blind. I was 2 seats away and i had AA.
I re-raised 4 times his raise, i can't remember how many chips we had, but for arguments sake lets say he had 4000 and i had 1000, with blinds at 20/40 (i know its well off, but it makes it easier to explain, and i'm pretty sure the values match). So he raised 120, i raised to 480. Everyone else folded and he thought for the full two minutes he was allowed before moving in. I called and he turned over 7 2. With a flop of 772, i was out, and he went on to finish 3rd.
He wrote in the chat box, 'oops'. It was quite unreal to think that this type of thing would happen in a high standard tournament like that, especially when it's so late on. Please guys, talk to me about it, i've never figured what he figured to do what he did. Any ideas?
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Comment by Chris Collings
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Congratulations on your new site, it really has a lot of potential. I too have played poker for about 3 years so I know what you mean about a badbeat. I will make sure I check back frequently.
Good Luck At The Tables
Chris