Two weeks ago, I wondered in a post what was going on with the Guinness and Poker blog, where Iggy - the blogger - had only written “Oh my. Stay tuned.” I wasn’t the only one who wondered, it seems. Furthermore, we now have an answer: He’s joined the team of bloggers over at Poker Works, and his new blog URL is http://iggy.pokerworks.com/. Check it out. He started his blogging over there out with an uber post, of course.

While I’m linking other blogs, I’ll add this post by Pauly (@Tao Of Poker). The sum of it goes

1. Know why you play poker before you play it.
2. Don’t live your life to impress your peers.
Life is too short to worry about what other people are thinking. Most of the people in my life are confused, completely lost, unhappy, and self-consumed.

It’s a neat post. I don’t necessarily feel as strongly about the subject as Pauly does, but he does a good job of making his point. And even though I don’t think there’s anything inherently evil about doing things solely for the sake of impressing others (to each their own, even if I happen to think this particular own leads mostly to misery), I still like a good rant.

The topic of whether or not having a bounty on your head was +EV or -EV has been up for discussion. I really liked Chris’s take on it:

slap a bounty on your head and do you think it will lead to people making more or fewer mistakes against you? They may actually occasionally be making plays that are correct in $EV terms given the bounty, but are also +EV for you. Often however, especially with ‘only’ a bounty of the buyin, your opponents will just be making -EV moves against you.

… with the exception of players who are too tight, who may open up just enough to start playing perfectly. “Too tight” isn’t a common mistake though, so the overall effect of a bounty should be +EV.

My hot streak came to an abrupt end on Sunday, by the way. I swiftly lost 42BB in the 100 hands I played, and got up and felt pretty good about it. I had been running ridiculously well for the past week, so I was sort of in a state where I was just waiting for the inevitable. Before someone lectures me on probability and the fact that an upswing doesn’t have to end with a downswing, let me point out that I know that. My state of mind doesn’t have to be rational. My emotional self asks me to tell all the rational probability know-it-all’s to… Well, I can’t quote it because it’s pretty harsh, but it’s a famous quote of Dick Cheney.

–Fredrik