“Loitering for Gambling” is the citation, handwritten and barely readable on the pink carbon copy. It’s a shameful one, not for the gambling, but for the “loitering,” which is anything but what [...]
The reinforced door to the host’s apartment is being repeatedly struck and will soon be destroyed; small pieces of it fly into the hallway. A hinge snaps. The players are frozen by the [...]
Note: I’m staying again with a friend in Manhattan so I was inspired to write up something that happened during last year’s visit. Without connections, it takes a bit of time to get into a [...]
Gargamel ponders. The player to his left, the always emotional Achilles, tells him to do something. The problem Gargamel is having, is how to play his holding, A4dd, from this position, and in a [...]
Gender is real. And we’re not raised the same. Boy children get to aggress and play with guns and make war. Girl children get to nurture and play with dolls and make families. Simplistic but [...]
Gargamel, wolf in wolf’s clothing, is taking his time. Playing great poker doesn’t just take time, it eats time. Poker devours thought, patience, intelligence, guts, math, instinct, [...]
At the end of another long night of 73o and missed flops at two different limits and three tables, I’m exhausted, worn. A favorite dealer has asked me what is wrong, (Nothing that can be [...]
Mental game concerns are as inherent to a winning poker player as his technical strategy. So spend time working on your mental game. Read about it. Keep records of it. Act on what you learn. [...]
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 [...]
