Jim Makos Blog

Adding important poker stats in your poker HUD can increase your poker bankroll. A poker HUD, or poker Heads-Up-Display, is a poker software of online poker player stats that show up around the player’s nickname while you play. Those poker statistics help you make the correct play and decision leading to bigger poker winnings. The [...]

I kind of expected such a day. After all I had moved up to $25-50 NL tables and a 6 buy-in downswing was inevitable. I’m happy though since I didn’t play bad and most of the money were lost due to bad beats. Here are a couple of interesting daily and monthly graphs and stats, [...]

Playing at the high stakes tables at online poker rooms can be expensive but rewarding as well, since you stand to win or lose big pots. A few days ago I experienced my worst bad beat losing a huge pot. This time though I did win an enormous pot comparing to what I used to [...]

This is part 1 of the new online poker video series I’m going to publish in my poker blog. The series will include more than 6 videos, as I recorded more than one hour of poker play at Pokerstars. I play at $1,000, $2,000 and $5,000 No Limit 6-max cash game tables, also known as [...]

Supernova Elite is the ultimate Pokerstars VIP status and it can achieved on a yearly basis. I have constantly been achieving Supernova status in the last years and I have set one of my primary goals for 2010 to become one of the few Supernova Elites at Pokerstars. By becoming a SNE I will enjoy [...]

Yesterday night I was playing cash games along with a couple of big tournaments at Pokerstars. One of the poker tables was a $5,000 No Limit and I was doing pretty ok, until I got dealt Aces on the button. I ran into Kings in that poker hand and in the end we pushed all [...]