Posted by Padilla | December 29, 2006 2:19 PM
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My December as “Pud Knows”:

Happy New Year
(Nevermind that it was the beginning of a rebuy when anything goes.)

Posted by Johnnymac | December 29, 2006 12:25 AM
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Unfortunately I can’t take credit for this astute observation, but someone on Hornfans just pointed out that the Aggies were just 46 points away from an undefeated season this year. Good catch.

Posted by Dr Fro | December 23, 2006 12:33 PM
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You need to read this story about Dutch Boyd.

I wrote here before (can’t find the link) about his mental illness. If I recall correctly, I made the similiar point that if you are known to be off balance, then probably just about the worst way to spend your time would be as a professional high stakes poker player. Hell, I’m mentally well balanced, at least that is what the voices in my head keep telling me, and I sometimes get really f***ed up in the head when I take a bad beat. Up the stakes and it could easily send Dutch over the edge.

Posted by Dr Fro | December 22, 2006 6:34 PM
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The other night at our poker game, I was wrong when I explained H.O.R.S.E. Here is the skinny:
In a H.O.R.S.E. poker game or tournament event, the kind of poker played in each round rotates as follows:

Razz is a seven-card stud poker game where instead of the highest hand winning, the lowest or worst hand wins the pot. The lowest hand in Razz is A-2-3-4-5, because straights and flushes don’t count against a hand being low, and aces are counted as low. The ace to five straight is also called “the bike” or “the wheel,” and is the best possible low hand. Unlike split-pot hi-lo games like Omaha 8, Razz doesn’t have an “eight or better” component to it’s play.

In 2006, the World Series of Poker introduced a $50,000 buy-in H.O.R.S.E. event (all games played with structured limits) and rotated games after each hour-long round until the final table, when they switched to no-limit hold’em.

Posted by Dr Fro | December 22, 2006 2:30 PM
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So I am playing a little poker today and I get my favorite hand, KK. Guy to my right raises 6x the BB to $3, I make it $7 and the button goes all-in (has me covered). Original raiser folds and I call for about $22.

He had 55, and I won.

So just one day after I made my post justifying calling with KK when your opponent plays super fast and you fear AA, I applied my own advice was damn happy I did!

Posted by Dr Fro | December 21, 2006 10:18 PM
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