Friday, April 18, 2008

Poker and the Christian - The Response

I’ve written another article on Christian Poker Players.  I think is really hits more of the touchier points.  For example, how can you play a game that requires you to lie and use deceit to win? Also, how can you play against someone who is gambling away his mortgage payment or food of his children?

 

Please read the article and let me know what you think.

 

http://www.mypalal.com/poker/christianPoker_Part2.cfm

 

Alan

Thursday, April 03, 2008

Luck or Skill?

Hey everyone,

As some of you know, I’m a member of PokerXFactor.com and they have this really cool feature where I can upload the hand histories from a tournament that I was in and I can review my play.  I was testing one of the features by uploading a SNG that I bubbled on.

It was a good game because I played a little more aggressive than I usually do, and I wanted to review the hands that I lost.  You can filter the view so only your losing hands show up (with the exception of when you folds the blinds).

It was interesting because I only lost two hands in that SNG.  It was the last two hands, where I lost races.  I won 16 hands and lost 2.

The situation was that I was on the bubble short stacks.

Hand 1 – I was on the button with QT and was called by pocket 6s.  Lost the race.

Hand 2 – Small blind with K-9 shoved and called by A-9.  Dominated.

I hate bubbling.