Conversations with Gamblers: The Hannibal Lecter chapter

By Shabbir | June 26, 2004

He’s widely regarded as a far superior poker player to anyone else in the home game circuit at the levels I play at. Therefore it’s pretty much impossible for him to play there. Sometimes he deals cards at games. Sometimes he plays in AC or Vegas. Mostly I think he plays online where an alias…

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Playing the Long Game

By Shabbir | June 21, 2004

Basic math is a wonderful thing. Entire industries are built upon convincing people to ignore basic math and probability. Take the DC Lottery for example. Your odds of hitting all five numbers of the Powerball are 14 billion to 1. (They’re actually slightly worse, but the exact number is unwieldy) This means that if you…

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Poker Winnings 6-21-04

By Shabbir | June 21, 2004

All amounts in US$ This month This year Online +147.00 -743.84 Casinos +11.50 -879.75 TTL +158.50 -1,623.59 All I’ve done this month is play online tournaments of Limit Texas Hold’em. I’ve played in about 52 of them, so my play time is about 60 hours. With a profit showing of $158.50 thus far, I’m making…

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Chatty Cathy..

By Shabbir | June 19, 2004

..this B&B offers a free breakfast. The staff can’t wait to talk about where everyone’s from and find out more about you. I’d rather have a tooth pulled than have idle chit chat at this moment.

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