Too Much Poker Dross
On : --If I had to appear on the TV programme “Room 101” and quote my pet hates then generalising would be very near the top. In fact in poker you hear generalised quotes all over the place. A generalisation is a statement or…
Bet Sizing Mistakes in NLHE
On : --Let us diverge briefly to talk about two fictional people (could easily be real) called Bob and Ken. Both Bob and Ken run their identical businesses where both of them sell clothes. Bob on the one hand is very keen on paying…
Advanced Backgammon Tactics
On : --After all is said and done with the mathematics and “right moves” in backgammon, you need to move to another level. You will, after your initial birth into the game, hopefully be by now a convert! What this means is that the…
Improve Your Backgammon
On : --When you own a cube actually has some worth. Owning – in this instance – means having the ability to double your opponent, but your opponent cannot. Let us say that your opponent is having a good roll and has checkers on…
The need to double better in backgammon
On : --As I remarked in my previous article, backgammon is incredibly similar to games like poker and chess and the doubling cube brings poker into the equation even more. I play almost exclusively poker these days at sites like 888poker but that isn’t…