As a novelist, I stalk narrative. I get high on connective story tissue. Cause and effect. This begets that. Life and heart stuff. A staunch right-brainer, I’m deeply creative and subjective. I [...]
I am not a people person. Although I started my poker career in a live setting, for the simple reason that the internet hadn’t been invented yet, I took to online play like a cat to a bowl [...]
Phase One: Terror When I left tournaments for a cash life, my poker membrane was still brittle. I grew smarter about the game every session, but couldn’t yet see much beyond my own cards. Those [...]
Kittens, I am blocked! Specifically I am finding it impossible to complete the promised “Locals II: Something Something Something” (even the sub-title has hidden under the bed). I suspect a large [...]
I quite enjoy walking on The Strip when the temperature isn’t 115F and I’m not late for something, but there’s a stretch on the east side that invariably tilts me. It begins [...]
Why are poker players infants? We can’t have it both ways. We can’t launch ridiculously profitable surprise attacks then complain bitterly when a “fish” (however defined) makes us the victim. We [...]
With the WSOP safely in the rear-view mirror, Las Vegas poker is slowly returning to normal. Freeroll promotions are back, and with them the local promo-chasers have re-emerged from their lairs. [...]
I don’t like traveling. In my late twenties I parked my car rather clumsily and upside-down on an Allegheny mountain and sitting in the same position for any length of time has been [...]
All thoughts and opinions are that of the author and do not necessarily reflect the thoughts and opinions of Red Chip Poker LLC. I’ve always felt that this is rather unnecessary. The [...]
The insidious spread of social media has led to me meeting people in a different way. It used to be a handshake in a card room or restaurant. These days, people edge digitally into my field of [...]
