Quest of a Closet Poker Player

Well, I guess it could be worse.  I could have been in this hand…

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Ridiculous. I’ve now found something that is more of a waste of time than online poker: Age of Empires.

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So, I guess I’ve figured out that my Sony Vaio laptop has a whole video component to me (quick on the uptake here).  Without further ado and no editing comes the launch edition.

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I was able to play in a blogger tourney for the first time in a long while as a record 112 players convened in the Mookie.  I had a wild ride along the way.

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There are few poker scenarios worse than this one.

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Nice read, sir…

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Somewhere in the midst of another premium hand getting outdrawn for the seventeenth time, I headed away from my comfort zone and sat with the big boys:  $5/10 NLHE on PokerStars.

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I had an eventful last day in Vegas, but mainly for all the wrong reasons.

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$1/3 NLHE at Caesar’s, and just a horrific hand sends me from a winning session to down $400 for the day.

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Online poker is rigged.  It has become an inside joke for all of us every time we have a bad beat.  But now with the firestorm around TheV0id (PokerStars WCOOP winner) and the Absolute Poker mess.  In case you’re just waking up, it involves IP addresses within Absolute, hole cards, and an incredible breach of security to allow any of us to find out, an emailed Excel spreadsheet showing all hands and hole cards for a big portion of said tourney.

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