Alix Martin's Blog
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Game theory quiz
I recently started integrating some game theory lessons in my coaching. If you're a pro, you certainly already know all this. If you're an amateur, you might be better than some pros ! So here's a little quiz : Here is a game played between a Red player and a Blue player. The Red pla... Read More →
Game theory and the markets
If you learned about financial markets in school, you probably were taught that markets were an efficient information crunching machine, always offering a fair price and never leaving an edge other than diversification and being long because the long term trend of the economy is up. There are ... Read More →
coaching brag
Despite not being much of a heads up player myself, I occasionally do coaching sessions with good to great hu players, who come to me interested by my software. This time I was working with L. from Germany, who had ascended from being a 1/2 player to battling for long 5/10 matches. We had don... Read More →
a French pokerstars 5/10 hand
http://www.pokerhand.org/?5808296 reads : jacob126b38 is a winning reg AMZA26 is the fish at the table, I have him as 46/18 Only history we have is this hand, where he overbet on a 4-straight board into my nuts : http://www.pokerhand.org/?5808299 In the first hand, neit... Read More →
Nils Martin
my second child Nils is born yesterday, by cesarean. Everybody is healthy (and a little tired !) Read More →
climbing pics
Nothing amazing on the French poker front, so I'll put in a few climbing pics to fill this blog. My Daughter Esther on the right is doing pretty well for herself... Read More →
no more Full Tilt
Full Tilt poker has shut the door on French players, while it applies for a licence to rake. We are left with the unhappy choice of playing in the overraked .fr games, with the game-killing 2% preflop , or play on Absolute poker, where we can't be too sure if opponents can see our cards or not.... Read More →
Injouable !
This is a blog in French about the new French regulated poker rooms. J'ai essayé le poker à la sauce .fr sur Pokerstars ce matin. Résultat : je mets 22 minutes à prendre conscience du rake (2% preflop, 7% postflop cappé à 3.5€), et je perds 16$... dont 22$ de prélèvement... Read More →