Time for my quarterly poker related post. I created a single page with tables of the starting hand strategies recommended by Abdul Jalib and the ones for Tight and Loose games in Small Stakes Hold ‘Em.
I thought I could do this and figure out why I’m playing so tight (and losing so much), but it doesn’t seem to be helping. I don’t know what my problem is.
Iggy’s post got me wondering how the $10,000 WSOP Main Event buy-in has compared against inflation over the years, so I found a conversion table and created this spreadsheet.
I guess it’s not so surprising that the Plaza’s $50,000 buy-in event only had 11 entrants, since that’s comparable in today’s money to the $10,000 buy-in back in 1972. Continue reading →