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Archive for August, 2007

Poker Junky Alert

Friday, August 31st, 2007

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 it being the final table. If sweatering Joe Speaker’s exploits on the felt without the joys of a hole cam makes your day, you’re in hog heaven (more…)

The Mouse that Roared

Thursday, August 30th, 2007

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 bit of silliness gets closer to real fact. (more…)

High Stakes Poker – Season 4 – Hammer Time

Wednesday, August 29th, 2007

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…)

The Other Side of Exuberance

Tuesday, August 28th, 2007

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…)

Unbounded Optimism

Monday, August 27th, 2007

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…)

Ready or not; here I come.

Friday, August 24th, 2007

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…)

Calling Natty Bumppo

Thursday, August 23rd, 2007

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…)

Yesterday, revisited

Tuesday, August 21st, 2007

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…)

How not to play stud

Monday, August 20th, 2007

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…)

It’s a small world after all

Sunday, August 19th, 2007

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…)

 
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