Introduction

Hi, my name is Thomas and I'm addicted to small-stakes online poker.

If it were up to me, I would wake up in the morning, fry 2 extra large eggs, toast 2 pieces of whole wheat bread, take 1 multi-vitamin, pour a glass of milk and begin playing what will become an entire day of no limit Texas hold 'em poker at my computer desk as I devour my delicious breakfast. And, luckily, being as I don't have a job and recently graduated from college, it is up to me, and that's exactly what I do.

The purpose of this blog is not to convince you to begin playing Texas hold 'em online all day, stopping only after earning somewhere between $100 and $145 (if you play for 8 hours, that's about $12-18 per hour). I actually have several reasons for not wanting you to read my blog and then begin playing. First, if you are reading this (assuming someone is not reading this aloud to you) then that means you can read. This fact automatically qualifies you as one of the smartest people at any given online small-stakes poker table. That's not good business for me. The second reason is that reading this may actually give you a slight edge should you ever face me in the poker room. I plan to go over specific hands, what I was thinking during each hand, what I thought my opponent was thinking (if capable) in a given hand and how I plan to play that given situation in the future. And the third reason is that I have a conscience. I do no condone gambling of any sort, and I would hate for you to go digging in your wallet/purse for your Wells Farge Visa debit card at 3 in the morning because you were in a cash game and some guy called your standard-sized preflop raise holding King-Ten off-suit (KTo) and couldn't let go of his hand when you re-raised him hard after the flop, which included a ten and two lower cards, and (of course) a king comes on the turn to which you say, "I know this guy has king f****** ten, but I have to call". After he re-raises you all-in following your two-thirds-of-the-pot-sized bet, and, after revealing to him that you have aces he simply writes, "LOL", leaving you pissed off and not enough money in your account to buy back in at that table so you can play this moron, feeling that, over time, you should be able to milk a guy like this for all he's got. And NO, I'm not bitter. I just don't want that to happen to you.

Anyway, after re-loading 40 bucks from my Wells Fargo Debit card that night, I never looked back. So, without further ado, I would like to introduce you to Texas Tom's Little Poker Blog and hope you enjoy every last one of my bad beats, suck-outs, bluffs, all-ins, double-ups, lay-downs, re-raises, limp-ins, and especially, cash outs as I learn the game and share with you my small-stakes online poker experience. Actually, I hope you don't enjoy any of my bad beats, as they tend to cost me money and, as my home-game friends will tell you, I might threaten to punch you in the face (I've also been known to throw computer chairs into refrigerators).