Lookin around

I’ve got another post about poker that I am working on. In the meantime I’m reading the site. We’ve got some good stuff up. On the weekends, traffic – for me a least – tanks. If you’ve had a great weekend without visiting, be sure to back up a bit and check out the posts that hit since your last visit.

Amanda Leatherman does another nice interview of TonyG. His tournament game doesn’t show it but the guy has been on a rush at the ring tables. He also shows signs of ‘maturing’ or as we older farts put it, “Slowing down while shedding parts like a car without oil.” Paris is behind him it seems.

It is possible that Amanda owes at least a small part of her gig here to me. I did make a post entitled “I’m in love with Amanda” that is in my archives. It wasn’t a dirty ol’ man version; just said I thought she did better interviews than the rest of the crop. Haven’t gotten my 10% check yet. That looks highly doubtful.

Glenda has a stud post in the Chris blog … you can’t get away from them here … and describes the tables. She’s playing Stud8 while I’m playing StudHi. I have a hard enough time keep track of it all without throwing in getting quartered. Our table experience is similar. There are a lot of players that don’t have a clue and are willing to play a weak draw to the end. It can get frustrating.

She wonders at why someone would drop money time after time playing the game that way. Generationaly we’re closer together than apart. But that isn’t the case for most she’s playing against. They are putting at risk about as much money as a visit to Micky D’s. In our day of $.15 hamburgers and $.10 fries, they are risking about $.85 in ‘our’ money. A .25-.50 game back then was big money. It is hard to throw all that away. A can of tomato soup at the store was about $.08 or close to the ante in that game. Those things still stick in the back of our minds.

ADDENDUM:

It is an election year and you are getting a lot of tainted information. Nowhere is that more apparent than in the economic package being argued by the pols. It is all being laid at the feet of the sub-prime and home builders. Home building is 5% of the economy. Exports are about 3 times that and still up 13%+ for the year – compliments of the weak dollar.

In rough economic times, more are affected. We can’t argue that. But, for the vast majority there is little or no change. The paycheck is still there. You don’t get the new big ticket this year. You make the vacation a bit less expensive. It really is barely noticed in the overall scheme of things. Yet, that is a negative impact to the economy in the short term. But, don’t be like Henny Penny; the sky is not falling; it is just a bit cloudy.

Don’t let them drive you to the deep end with all this chatter.

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