The great persuadeo has asked for the Winter Soldier to come out of hibernation for far too long. I have finally returned to the online felt. Despite all the noise and controversy surrounding the [...]
I believe all this nonsense about checking being weak and that tough guys don’t check should be refuted.—Mike Caro No. 1 Lockdown As a kid I was defended. Trained not to cry. Never show fear. How [...]
Jingling through Harrah’s on my way home from Bally’s I decided to stop by the poker podium because… Hmmm. I guess every now and then I have an emotional need to engage someone [...]
The first stage of my anti-boredom campaign was a simple one: I took a week off from the felt. Between playing with the cat, handicapping the 2016 NFL season, and reading Terry Pratchett’s [...]
There’s simply no getting around it. Poker used to be more fun. Jumping in the car as soon as I could leave work and heading to the KC Ameristar. Exit 55B. The slow-moving, raven-haired [...]
“I watch the ripples change their size, but never leave the stream…” The International Man Of Mystery went borderline apoplectic when I told him about the strategic change I had made. “No! [...]
As a general rule I like to get seated in a poker tournament before its scheduled start time, but the Wynn Fall Classic made that close to impossible. It was a little after ten when I rushed into [...]
I finally lost my mind last night. It started (well, it started in June, but that’s another story) when another poor fool shipped his gutter over my flopped straight after I potted the turn [...]
Monday evening in a Las Vegas restaurant with three poker veterans. International Man of Mystery (IMOM) is recounting a PLO hand he played in Switzerland. Much to the befuddlement of medical [...]
I’m here at the “Full of Crepe,” finally having found some decent breakfast, more than a mile from my hotel at the Sands Casino in Bethlehem, Pennsylvania. This isn’t the first amusing [...]
