Monthly Archives: August 2007
Poker Junky Alert
The next two days should give you all the fix you need. The EPT in Barcelona is providing two days of non-stop poker. Today, they’ll show 8 hours of TV table poker starting at 11AM EST. Tomorrow, the same with … Continue reading
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The Mouse that Roared
It is a Peter Seller’s movie from the 50′s. You might want to pick it up at your video rental spot. It is all about the the Duchy of Grand Fenwick waging war on the U.S. and winning. Tomorrow that … Continue reading
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High Stakes Poker
The first episode of the season is out of the can and on the airwaves … and ready to download as a torrent already. It is the big money season. It is the straddle game. And, just to try to … Continue reading
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The Other Side of Exuberance
Yesterday, I talked about letting our exuberance affect our profitability. Well, there are two sides to every coin. You can’t be the perfect pessimist and prosper either. So, we return to the knife edge of Catch-22.
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Unbounded Optimism
It is one of the attributes of youth. Joe Speaker sees it in his son and blogs about it. Even those of us with hair in more places can revert to youthful exuberance. Yes, I do it from time to … Continue reading
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Ready or not; here I come.
No, I haven’t quit poker and gone back to hide and seek. I am holding the Altzheimer’s at bay and avoiding a second childhood everywhere but the tables. Here I am quoting a tree in my side yard.
Calling Natty Bumppo
Cooper’s hero in the leatherstockings tales was able to outdo the Iroquois Confederation. The Mohawks are part of that. Kahnawake is the Canadian reservation for the Mohawks. It lies just outside Quebec. Most of the sites I play have servers … Continue reading
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Yesterday, revisited
I read my posts later to try to view them with fresher eyes. Yesterday was pretty convoluted. The idea and items seem right but it sure was structured poorly. It is 5 A.M. and I just left a stud table … Continue reading
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How not to play stud
Anyone can teach you that and are happy to do so on FullTilt or another site
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It’s a small world after all
I ran into that annoying song when I visited the Disney display at the New York World’s Fair. It has hounded me since. When I thought of the title, the damn thing is running through my mind as I type … Continue reading
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