This is not a man with a blog.
As any live poker aficianado knows, it’s a good time to be a no limit hold’em player, an okay time to be a limit hold’em player, and a rough time to be an Omaha/Stud/Razz player. These games are just hard to find in a casino. When I was last in Vegas the various regulars I…
I was reminded today of the volatility of no limit poker as I dragged a $200 pot in my new favorite No Limit Omaha/8 game. It’s a beautiful thing, but you’d have to be crazy to think that a weekly paycheck based on poker winnings wouldn’t be emotionally trying. In the last World Poker Tour…
As I hit my statistical hump day of midlife, there’s a bunch of stuff I have to do. I’m not talking about buying a Porsche, but all the other stuff that hits. Suddenly there’s a bunch of medical screening I’ll have to go through in another year for diseases that don’t kill, "young men". And…
So there I am, sitting at the Big Game last week, playing the lowest no limit they have ($1/$2). I’ve seen them starts lists for $5/$10 no limit with a $2,500 maximum buyin, but that’s a tale for another time. I’ve just spent an hour bullying the table for $200 and I look down in…
I finally took a statistical downswing at the Big Game. But wait, don’t you want to regale with tales from this session? Isn’t there something pithy to say? Not really, I got crappy cards and overplayed them. Exactly what the players with better cards needed to make money off me. I’m not broken up about…
I’ve never been good enough at live poker to have a cash management problem. But today, after several sessions where I bought in at the Big Game with hundreds and then got cashed out in twenties, I’m having a currency storage problem. I went to the bank and asked to color up my bills and…
wow, amazingly good advice even for a company as big as us. And though people would say we’re not a startup, lots of things we do still feel like it. (like the little Manhattan Project I’m coding right now) Link: The Hardest Lessons for Startups to Learn.
Honestly, this is getting a little silly. I played at the Big Game again tonight and counted four chip dumpers around me at a table of 7 people, myself included. Avoiding the players will real card selection skills, I was still in a target rich environment. I bullied the table all evening and finally got…
I turn 39 this month, and I’m clearly behind in all the stuff I have to do before I turn 40. I only have 12 months to get my act together, buy a Porsche, start dating a 20 year old, and join EST (now called ‘The Forum’) and ‘find myself’. That’s a lot of ironic…
For a guy that plays low stakes, I’ve been running a little hot. Last night I hit an online $1/$2 Omaha/8 No LIMIT game and relieved folks of over $200 in a little over an hour. I am a decent Omaha/8 player, but I’m not that good. Omaha’s a pretty complex game, with enough potential…