About me

For almost eight years now, I have been playing and studying this wonderful game called poker. I’ve played Limit Hold’em professionally, coached numerous players, written many a forum post, and currently work as the production manager for StoxPoker.com – the best job and people to work for in the world.

Although I’ve played and studied many different variants of poker – from 2-7 triple draw, to Razz, to No Limit Hold’em – I’ve never really taken the time to get my No Limit Hold’em cash game to the same level as my Limit Hold’em cash game (I usually play up to $20/$40 Limit Hold’em a few hours each week when I’m not busy doing StoxPoker work).

The aim of this blog is to document my progress from being a profitable player at .50c/$1 No Limit Hold’em (currently 7.2BB/100 after 48,600 hands), towards being a profitable player at $5/$10 No Limit Hold’em. I hope to make this jump over the next 18 months (gradually moving up limits), and want to prove to myself that I can beat, as well as document, the different limits along the way.

Points to remember and take with me on my journey:

  • - In Limit Hold’em, protecting your hand is more prevalent than it is in No Limit Hold’em. In No Limit Hold’em, you should be focusing on controlling the size of the pot, as well as protecting your implied odds and the money sitting in front of you.
  • - Your goal is to finish the hand with a particular sized pot; not to get money in as quickly as possible.
  • - Control the pot in position - even if this sometimes means checking a street.
  • - Protect your implied odds on non-draw heavy boards.

    • My aim is to fit in some poker study where possible each day – fortunately this is already included in my daily work routine (reviewing StoxPoker videos before release). Added to this I have pretty much every book in the TwoPlusTwo library, have pulled out “Harrington on Cash Games” Volumes I and II to study, and intend to follow that up with Ed Miller’s “No Limit Hold’em - Theory and Practice”.

    Hopefully over time I can post meaningful content (and hand histories), which might help others who begin the same transition.

    Enjoy!