Ok…this post doesn’t have all that much to do with poker but I’ll get around to our favourite topic anyway.  Anyone have ninemsn.com as their default home page?  I’ve been sitting here today browsing the headlines as I am want to do whilst procrastinating about work, and the only thing that comes to mind is WTF?!?

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You know you’re a poker junkie when…

1. Every time you see a map reference like K 10 you instantly equate it with a group 6 Sklansky starting hand.
2. You know the full name and moniker as well as every major tournament achievement of your favourite player, but are only vaguely aware that your first child was born ‘some time in February a couple of years back’.
3. You spend more time browsing the two-plus-two forum and pocket fives site than surfing for porn. Read the rest of this entry

Daniel Negreanu is something of a freak when it comes to reading poker.  In fact, some of the time we’d be forgiven for thinking that we the public trust Daniel’s reads better than Daniel does, given his tendency to tell opponents the exact cards they have, confirm that they have him beat, and then call anyway.  This video isn’t an example of that, but it is just one of many examples of Negreanu’s uncanny ability to know exactly where he is in a hand. 

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Written By…some random donkey.

I woke up this morning and decided to play some poker.  I really like poker.  Brad, my neighbour, he is really good at poker and says he has been crushing .15/.30 playing online poker at PokerRoom, so I decided to make a deposit to see if I could do ok.  I’m not as good as Brad, but I’ve taken a few trips around the felt, so I was really looking forward to it.

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