Canada 3, USA 5...

[thumbnail photo is from kvoa.com] Canada-USA is always a good game; something like two brothers duking it out. National hockey-pride on the line, some of the NHL’s top players, often from the same team facing each other. Can’t get much better than that. We got tons of...

Aggression, equity and ...

A lot of microstakes players tend to get stuck ‘at the flop’.  What I mean by that is they know how to play preflop relatively well and they know how to cbet the flop to some degree, but once they reach the turn they tend to make a lot more mistakes, and are unsure how to...

Slippin!...

Well I’m way behind pace this month, and in retrospect, those days where I had free time last month to push myself more towards a 40k or 50k hand month but instead chose to be lazy are starting to bite me in the ass. This month, I’ve been both lazy, and have had some rough...

Leafs have a pulse!?...

[thumbnail pic from nbc sports] Seems like everyone’s picking it up. Giguere has two shutouts in his first two games as a Leaf, Phaneuf is an absolute monster, and it seems like their energy is rubbing off on the rest of the team. Kessel has picked up the scoring, Bozak is making...

Leafs acquire Phaneuf...

Well, so much for poker.  Looks like I’ll be spending a LOT more times watching and following the Maple Leafs these next few months. Yesterday, new-ish General Manager Brian Burke finally showed some muscle and made a groundbreaking trade.  Leafs lose Matt Stajan (F), Niklas...

January in review...

If my progress for the month were a report card, it’d probably be something like a B+.  But you wouldn’t know it looking at my winnings. My only real goal for the month was to play 33,000 or more hands.  I actually came up short there, surprisingly.  Just as I wrote, I was...