Saturday, June 27, 2009

Friday, June 26, 2009

Enhancing the use of forums.

A "internet poker buddy" just inquired as to how one could enhance the utility of a poker forum. I should have told him to join the site :).

Here are my suggestions so far. Any others (as comments or as posts) would be great.

*Slightly incentivize forum use for members and coaches (my guess is that crafting and adapting a +EV incentive).
*Creating and maintaining results threads that coaches read.
*Putting every hand from a coaches video into the HH importer, putting a link to it in the videovideos.php entry. That way a specific hand can be posted in the video threads (or even the general section).
*Encouraging member videos or HH reviews. Encouraging coaches to sweat member videos and provide their own commentary. Two free weeks on the site if your video is used by a coach should be incentive enough.
*Issuing monthly challenges based on themes. Example- river play OOP for August 2009.
*Get QTip, Leatherass, and Cottonseed to post more hands.
*Generating a social network feature akin to facebook's front page, to encourage people to read their friends' posts. The more people read, the more they post.

Wednesday, June 17, 2009

Three hands from an 80 minute session. - Stoxpoker Forums

Here are some simple hands that I'd love a litttle feedback on. 

AA- perhaps I'm being a maytag repairman here, but I wonder about preflop 3bet sizing relativ to a 125 BB stack and hand ranges from a weak player.

http://www.stoxpoker.com/forums/showthread.php?t=24782

AQo OOP on a threeflush turn - Against a laggier player, it's an easy CRAI.  Should I do the same , ket the guy barrel it in, or give up.  I go half way by checking and calling one street.  I hate it.

http://www.stoxpoker.com/forums/showthread.php?t=24784

KQ - top two vs a nit.  Do I miss a value bet on the river?

http://www.stoxpoker.com/forums/showthread.php?t=24783

Monday, June 15, 2009

The Well: BobboFitos - Page 8 - Two Plus Two Poker Forum

Strategy talk- deeper that individual hands, but detailed enough to be relevant.

http://forumserver.twoplustwo.com/39/small-stakes-pl-nl/well-bobbofitos-1064/index8.html

Forum RSS feeds.

http://www.stoxpoker.com/forums/external.php?type=RSS2

You can now add stoxpoker forum threads to an RSS reader.

http://www.deucescracked.com/posts.rss

Same with deuces cracked.

I'm going to try to do the same for some other stuff.

Playing Your 'A' Game: Part 1 - video #922 . . . . Release Date: 05/02/09 - Stoxpoker Forums

http://www.stoxpoker.com/forums/showthread.php?p=155613#post155613

This video is a superb breakdown of how enhancing your focus enhances your play.

I think this month will be "mental strength month" for me.

Friday, June 5, 2009

Thursday, June 4, 2009

Question about pocket pairs in between 2 raisers - Stoxpoker Forums

JJ in CO - UTG Raised, CO flatted and Btn R to 25x which is size of UTG shortstack, what should CO do?

http://www.stoxpoker.com/forums/showthread.php?p=161047#post161047

Tuesday, June 2, 2009

CardRunners Forum: 1st Podcast - Interview with Townsend

Cardrunner's first podcast with an interview with Brian Townsend who discusses 4betting strategy:

http://www.cardrunners.com/members/forum/ubbthreads.php?ubb=showflat&Number=528185&page=1

Expert Insight - Article: The Gordon Pair Principle

I realise this is probably better applied to tournaments but it's still an interesting concept.

http://www.expertinsight.com/Articles/92.html

PF Odds and NLHE - Stoxpoker Forums

Interesting discussion in thread about rating different strategies against an unknown when in the BB with J8s vs Btn raise.

http://www.stoxpoker.com/forums/showthread.php?p=160426#post160426

KK in BB with raise, call, 3b all in from short stack, then my turn! - Stoxpoker Forums

What's the best strategy with KK with lots of action before getting to us?

http://www.stoxpoker.com/forums/showthread.php?p=160525#post160525