This is not a man with a blog.
It’s not that I don’t love, you, but I’ve been seeing other blogs. The baby turned one year old right before we headed to Atlantic city for a week. You heard me right, my wife, the most fabulous woman in the world, rented us a beach house adjacent to Atlantic City, home of all things…
I just finished "Under and Alone" and was really blown away. I’ve only met one undercover detective before, but he struck me as an odd guy. I met him at the trial of the operators of the Centreville poker game I used to play at. He really didn’t have to worry that much about getting…
The season finale of The Sopranos was particularly disappointing. I was excited to see AJ start to turn his life around, but that didn’t make up for the complete lack of a plot climax. However tonight starts the new season of High Stakes Poker on the Game Show Network. I first heard about High Stakes…
I buy a lot of poker books, as you can tell from my Amazon wishlist. I actually often buy books that are ahead of where I am in poker skills. I don’t mean that I don’t understand them. On an intellectual level I do. But experience counts for a lot in poker. And for me,…
I babysat for Sarah and one of her fellow mom drinking buddies this weekend and then after they got home, I hit the Big Game slightly before midnight. I arrived to a table of six morose people playing $2/$5 No limit Hold’em, maximum buyin $1,000. Two guys were racking up around $5-6,000 in chips and…
I seem to have developed a leak in my game. I realized it when I made the same mistake both in live poker and online in corresponding No limit cash games. The leak is that I seem to be assuming people are bluffing the flush on the river. A quiet better who calls me on…
Although I will never write a history of cellphone innovation, 2005-2007 will mark the year that Microsoft came into a dominant space in the market. Was it something Microsoft had done? Did their marketing team figure out the secret to getting people to buy Windows mobile based phones? Did a competitor stumble? Nope, none of…
So I played hooky yesterday and saw game 3 of the 4 game series against the Astros at RFK. It’s a 1:05pm game and was supposed to be a date for Sarah and I, but she got a couple of big deals in at work and so I went alone rather than mope around at…
Katie picked this up for me for my birthday and I read it in 48 hours flat. It’s the story of a banker from Texas, Andy Beal, and how he discovered poker. The story is interesting because Andy is a billionaire, and instead of working up through limits, he decided to simply study one kind…
I’m usually very good with vendors, but yesterday I confess that I lost it. A serious problem was escalated to a vendor manager and wasn’t noticed because this person was training a new staffer all day Monday. Along with a poorly placed "fuck" in the conversation, I suggested that perhaps new employee training ought to…