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The games go on, as ever.  Poker mourns no one, especially so at this oblivious table, which barely manages a murmur beyond the obvious bad beat jackpot whimpers.  When he returns, DZ gets [...]

When DZ checks the turn after raising Miniman’s donk lead, I put the pro on eight-six suited.  It’s a fast check, really much too quick, because if DZ had a set he would have considered [...]

I turn and see Shaky, nice guy and poker mark, going home with 2.5k.   The two of us stare at his chips in disbelief. Shaky is a lean, handsome man, late fifties, brown eyes, recently haircut and [...]

Eighty degrees, deuce. Serve, return, misplaced approach; Hando dribbles J4 over the high part of the net. It’s likely he intended this defense to go elsewhere, or, perhaps, he had no idea where [...]

Seven hundred big blinds in front of me, Q3o in the hole, six callers, getting lazy; something else is on my mind.  Sorry, it’s on me; can I cbet this monotone board?  Yes, apparently, as I watch [...]

My logic is perfect, and perfectly self-serving.  To vastly simplify my poker strategy, I play only short sessions, making occasional allowances for when I feel great. Since I switched over to [...]

Gargamel has disappeared.  He hasn’t actually vanished, or been bound and kidnapped by a crowd of torch bearing Smurfs, but he is still gone for another day.  In fact, the WSOP has carried away [...]

I am a workaholic.  I am so happy about this development, so grateful.  All my life, whether from circumstance or cynicism, I’ve held jobs that did not truly engage me, no matter how interesting [...]

Gargamel is diabolic.  Blessed with top percentile mathematical ability, he calculates his hourly at the table, adjusted for the swings of his session.  He wants to extract every last dollar from [...]

Thanks to Red Chip Poker I have bumped up my flight to Vegas from accommodating a short family visit and a concurrent $1000 NL paper chase, to a free lotto ticket in the Colossus reentry marathon [...]