Poker Perambulation

It is my Google hit success story. The last few weeks, I’ve gotten hits every day from that old blog that had the term in it. It is that time of year; people ask questions. Google handles that nicely. Resolutions are a whole other matter. (more…)

My follow up questions: Should we want it to be? And how important is the answer? (more…)

It is a word we can use often. It happens in life and it definitely is around in poker. Why did something happen. Why should I do something with the future unknown. In our forums, a player asked such a question recently. And, that brings us here. (more…)

The following is a brief history of the making of a poker player … or what passes for one … me. With 1/1/2007 close, it is a time for looking in both directions. (more…)

Pet Rock or Poker Player? Every so often you hear about some guy losing a 5-figure amount when someone comes up with his password. The usual response from the room is something to the effect that it is their loss but they will try to track and recover, if possible. It is one of the ‘benefits’ of being off shore and unregulated by our Congress in a sensible manner. (more…)

(stolen without remorse from Grubby)

In poker most are in the bad beet category — something not all that tasty on the plate but something to stomach. In life, we sustain bad beats. And they are ones that weren’t planned for when we bought in. (more…)

The constitution is a very laissez-faire document. It speaks more to what the Federal Government cannot do. I don’t see anywhere it really speaks to what it should do. And I am sure that there is no requirement that it protects us from our basic nature or our own stupidity. (more…)

unless you are Iggy and then this doesn’t make it as the preamble. (more…)

and we’ve been playing this tournament for three hours. Most of my tournament stuff addresses simple early play. It hints around all the rest that makes up poker but that is a hard subject to ever fully address. (more…)