Dtiffin's Blog Postings

A fresh start at new poker room

October 5, 2010, 7:39 pm

  I've been doing poorly at FT so I'm a bit feed up with the place or my lack of ability, maybe some of both. I thought I'd try a place which supposedly has softer competition. I choose Victory Poker after some quick research and a bit of gut instinct. The important thing I realized is I have a new identity, and no one has any data on me. So far the game play has been loose and fishy, with about 25% of players knowing what there doing. Unfortunately, I can't use Holdem manager's heads up d

Taking bonus from FT seems to coincide with negative poker variation

September 12, 2010, 1:50 pm

It may be just an amazing coincidence, but upon accepting a bonus earning option from Full tilt, I experienced quite the negative poker variation. It seemed like I was card dead for longer periods of time than usual, that I was hitting second best hand to often, and every time I picked up aces no one else was picking up a playable starting hand. I play at the micro stakes, so not many would notice I was playing only a little tighter, so why no action on aces? I was playing some of these garbage

Are you focused?

August 30, 2010, 5:34 pm

  Hi everyone, This is my first blog here, and was looking for something really great to talk about. When no profound ideas came along for me, I decided to quit stalling and just write about what's on my mind lately. So, lately I've been digesting a bit of reading material of the self- help / improvement type. I've been thinking about how I can best use this knowledge to help my poker game. In one of Tony Robbins books he talks about the average persons reason for failing or falling shor