Poker Perambulation

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 make it interesting, there is a 72 sidebet. (more…)

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. (more…)

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 time myself. Humans seem to revert to optimism in a default manner that force reeducates us once again. It is a poker table standard, too, it seems. (more…)

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. (more…)

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 there. (more…)

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 on FullTilt. It seems like all the players I tried to describe yesterday showed up. LOL (more…)

Anyone can teach you that and are happy to do so on FullTilt or another site – all day, every day. I am still on the cheap seats but I’ve watched higher tables. They are better but that is often only marginal. Too many people play too many hands consistently. At the limit tables that is lethal. It isn’t what you win; often, it is what you don’t lose. It is too easy to see a round or two of betting with nothing going for you better than the come. Throw in people not being able to throw away a good pair and you can make money. (more…)

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 this. We learned about small world with what happened to Neteller – a legal, licensed, listed stock in the U.K. that our government went beyond inconveniencing. (more…)