Heads Up Hand of the Week — February 20th, 2009

The villain bought in short which tells me off the bat that he’s probably not a good player. He calls out of position way too often (56% of the time) and is not raising enough from the button (only 31% of the time). He’s pretty aggressive and…

Heads Up Hand of Week — February 13th, 2009

Villain has been calling my 3bets very light. I 3bet him 8 times and he’s called 6 of them. He folds to my continuation bets around half the time which is a bit loose considering I’ve been cbetting rather conservatively. He moderately aggressive on all…

Why You Should Throw Pot Control Out the Window

Pot control is a good thing. Unless of course, you go overboard. It’s a big leak for many, many low stakes and mid stakes regs. In fact, it’s probably one of my biggest leaks!
Let’s take a look at a hand I played recently.

How Much Are You Paying in Rake?

Did you ever actually calculate how much money you’re paying to FullTilt or Stars? It’s actually pretty surprising.

Here are the averages of how much I’ve paid on FullTilt HU tables:

• $50NL: $0.040 per hand

Heads Up Hand of the Week — February 6, 2009

A guys sits down at a $200NL heads up table with a shortstack, about $100 or so. We played 9 hands at this point, but he hasn’t folded preflop from the SB or the BB even once.