Texas Calculatem and Poker Office Blog

The day started off well with the guys from Poker-Strategy.org awarding me a free $25 account with Absolute Poker.

I had a few more Poker Theory discussions with Mr Welsh in the office and he worked through some Poker hand case studies to demonstrate the theory behind equity value. I also learned that it's sometimes important to raise in order to deny opponents the opportunity of getting good pot odds on their draws. There's so much I've missed in my many perusals of Carson's book!

Anyway, I was determined to make use of my newfound knowledge and therefore played a few more hands a single Ladbrokes Poker $0.25/$0.50 table.

In order to plug up the holes in my game I knew that I needed to (possibly) tighten up and (definitely) play more aggressively. Before starting, I therefore decided that I'd only play truly great premium hands - the sort that would be worth raising pre-flop. I probably managed this for over 70% of my plays. I also bet/raised a lot more on the flop to force out weak hands. It wasn't perfect and I undoubtedly made mistakes. But I've attemped to record my losing hands for later analysis and came out with $10.00 profit which is not bad for such low limit table.