Above the Mean: Defense

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Poker results yesterday: 2nd in the $55 rebuy on lock for about $1,600 and some withered min cashes on merge, ended up making a few bucks, can't complain. I don't know who said offense is the best defense, but I think they are dumb.  I think they are dumb to the point where that statement… Read more »

What’s New at TPE – Week Ending 10/21/2012

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  Last week I was a bit busy, so here comes another monster edition of “what’s new” covering the past two weeks.    Article – Advanced Poker Terminology: Range, Bluff Catcher https://www.tournamentpokeredge.com/advanced-poker-terminology-range-bluff-catcher/ This week’s article comes from Daryl Jace, who continues with his Advanced Poker Terminology series. This time he goes over the basic but… Read more »

Above the Mean: Chicken

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Nothing feels better than back to back winning days.  For an MTT player they don't happen all the time, so you might as well dance around naked when they do.  Yesterday I shipped the $109 on lock in what seemed like an easy cruise through the field.  I hit my 2 outs in a standard… Read more »

Above the Mean: Politics 101

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Am I the only person who wakes up on Mondays and cooks bacon without a shirt on?  This is probably my most painful past time.  Every time I start the cooking its, "here we go again".  I guess dodging hot grease bullets really wakes you up. I get a lot of creative writing ideas from… Read more »

Advanced Poker Terminology: Range, Bluff Catcher

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  This is part 2 of my Advanced Poker Terminolgy series. In this part of the article I'm going to explain the meanings and ideas behind the basic and important concepts "range" and "bluff catcher".  Let's begin.   Range – Range is what hand reading is all about. Range refers to the various hands you… Read more »

Poker, Beer, Life

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Thought it was about time for a new blog seeing as how the last few weeks of my life have been really crazy busy. As I mentioned in my last blog, I have started doing some social media marketing work for a local craft brewery, and that has been going great! I guess I am… Read more »

Above the Mean: TSA

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There have been countless complaints against the TSA securities at airport across the United States.  I have traveled a good amount and have never really had a problem.  Maybe that is because every time I have to get a pat down I go to the line that's inspected by the Latino woman with nice curves. … Read more »

What’s New at TPE – Week Ending 10/07/2012

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  This week Mike Leah continues with his mixed games overview, this time covering Stud Hi/Lo, and Razz, and BourbonFTW gives us parts three and four of his Sunday Million replay review.    Article – Selling Yourself Short: Why ChipEV is (Sometimes) Overrated, Part 3 https://www.tournamentpokeredge.com/selling-yourself-short-why-chipev-is-sometimes-overrated-part-3/ In part 3 of MoveLikeDarvin’s great series of articles,… Read more »

Above the Mean: Sunk

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Who goes out to the market and buys candy corn?  If candy corn were perishable, October would smell terrible.  Candy corn is only eaten when it is the absolute last resort.  Its the only candy that is used mainly for decoration.  It is the only candy that kids would rather have the non candy version… Read more »

Above the Mean: Ship the Digits

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Sunday I finally cashed the $500 super stack on Lock poker, taking down 3rd for a nice 5 digit score, which is quite rare for US poker players.  It was also much sweeter because I won a $100 satellite sit n go to qualify for the tournament, super free roll. From a psychology stand point,… Read more »