Women and cats will do as they please, and men and dogs should relax and get used to the idea.—Robert A. Heinlein Brave new world. Women play poker. Maybe not in the numbers we’d like to see in [...]
I remember the very first time I played poker in a casino. It was the summer of 1991 and the Trump Taj Mahal in Atlantic City New jersey was the place to be if you wanted to gamble on the east [...]
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 [...]
On Tuesday nights, as most students at my university are studying (or, more likely, drinking), the living room at my apartment was filled with the clattering of poker chips and the sound of cards [...]
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 [...]
Now I skipped a week because there weren’t many times to play that week, had a really busy week, I think I played less than 8 hours that week. However, last time I put in a decent amount of [...]
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 [...]
