Poker Perambulation

It is the weekend so I tend toward other topics in ‘Weekenders’. I want to talk about the Internet and where it is trending. Your ISP relationship is or should be a love:hate relationship and you’d be wise to ratchet up the hate side. (I talk about tournament play in the ADDENDUM which will let you bypass the first part if you find it uninteresting.) (more…)

Joe regals us with another bad beat preamble to an interesting hand. I rather thought my comment in his blog was perspicacious. (more…)

The serial melodrama that includes the UIGEA continues to play out at the Doha meetings. The US is seeking to settle the problem it’s anti-gambling stance is costing the country. Not only is the cost in civil liberty but it is going to cost a bunch and I mean a bunch that even the Bobby’s room gang would go “WOW!” about. (more…)

It is the salt of the earth for software vendors. It strikes fear into the hearts of end users. It often comes with a military component: SNAFU. Today – for me at least – it comes with a Thank You.

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The other day, I talked about the need to be willing to fail in tournament poker. It is something that goes against the grain. So much of what we do at the tables is affected by our reptilian brain. It’s that part of the brain that is pure reaction. It is the part of the brain that the Kumbiya crowd ignores when they are putting flowers into the muzzle of Guardman’s M-14 or other silliness to bring about World Peace. So, much of what we do is hardwired and one ignores that at their peril. (more…)

I qualified and played in the freeroll Friday night at Full Tilt Poker. I’m not really sure why. It is at the end of October and I don’t have a passport and probably couldn’t get one in that time. Well, there’s always the $1500 that goes with the tournament ticket. (more…)

You know your mama’s bound to die.

All my trials, Lord.

Soon be over.

That is a pretty bleak message. It is in the category spiritual. It is the song of a mother trying to comfort her child from her deathbed. This week the Grubs are trying to reconcile all that. (more…)

Well, there also The Battle of the Bands. Then, there pro wrestling’s Battle of the Belt Holders – all 42 of them. And, of course, famous military battles. They’ve all had a common theme that someone can get bloodied when they were really expecting to triumph. (more…)

It was an interesting day in blogdom. M.C. live blogged the Million $ made for TV game that features a lot of name pros – including our blogging buddy here, TonyG. But… that is not all.

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I just left our forum. Montana Mike made a post we’re having fun with. Mike is a nice fellow with strong opinions and that always leads to a fun thread developing. This one is young so join in. (more…)