Sit and Go Shark Part 1

SIT AND GO PART 1 STT’s can give a good return on your money and you do not even need to be a great player to consistently shown a profit. Here is a simple general guide on starting hands and how to play them, most other hands not mentioned should be played very carefully, possibly [...]

Jan15th

Following on from yesterdays post I thought I would try out my hand selection in one of the phase tournaments, 10 seater, winner take all. I am still unsure what type of game I am going to concentrate on in the future, may’be STT (6 or 10 players) or MTT where you hardly ever cash [...]

14th Jan

DANGER HANDS (Part 1) I am going to talk about the most common problem hands in regards to tournament play, the ways you can get into trouble with them and how to recognise danger. Remember that hand values constantly change during the different stages of a tournament. I would apply these to tournaments with a [...]

JAN 8th

Just for a change I am going to talk in depth about poker strategy (with the help of Dan Harrington)  and look at the difference between Tournament play and Cash play. The transiton from tournament to cash play is difficult for many no limit players. A hand like top pair, top kicker which is an [...]

Tuesday 6th Jan 2009

Whey Hey Happy 2009! Had a request to update my blog by Gaztheyorkie who has also persuaded me to play in some micro cash tables at PKR so here we go again! Both Pokerchipsquad.com players and Pkrnation.com players went over to a micro cash table tonight. Here are a few interesting hands: Seat 1: SuperMario [...]

Weds 3rd

After talking to Rich, the boss over at pokerchipsquad.com I stupidly arranged a ‘friendly’ $3 SnG over at PKR. Rich assures me that SnG’s is the way to make money at online poker, slowly and steadily like an old married man! The table has the usual nut who races to a quick lead when with [...]

Tuesday 2nd

Brilliant start as I asked no1 son who was hogging my computer to enter me in the $2 lottery satelite. Great things these lotto sats, for a couple of dollars you have have a go at winning a big tournament on the cheap. The PKR lottery are heads-up all in every hand with 1 in [...]

Mumbo’s Poker Blog (Diary Of A Donk)

Hi all, welcome to my poker blog where I will be posting my Diary Of A Donk, which is basically how to lose money at online poker, swear a lot at donkey suck-outs and generally bad mouth people from other countries! I thought I would give my squad pals over at pokerchipsquad.com a rest from [...]