My return to the Big Game

Had a 4.5 hour session at the Big Game again that was profitable.  Many of the same characters were there, including Scruffy the poker machine.  The man will push $100 at a pot and you often don’t really know if he’s got something or not.  More often than not, people fold, and that’s how Scruffy…

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The article you MUST read

This last Sunday the New York times ran an article by Kevin Kelly about the future of books and the business model of print.  I’m telling you that it’s a must-read: Brewster Kahle, an archivist overseeing another scanning project, says that the universal library is now within reach. "This is our chance to one-up the…

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So, my birthday rocked.

In perspective, I think I did pretty well, my wayward parents notwithstanding.  My sister and brother in law got me an espresso maker, which I’ve been using to make Sarah and I lattes in morning.  Several sweet people got me cards, and one pair of friends re-arranged their DC visit to someone else’s wedding festivities…

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Gore as President

This is by far the funniest thing I’ve seen in a long time.  With Bush having done such an awful job, this was a breath of fresh air.  While I don’t think you should watch this as a "wouldn’t it be better under the Democrats", I think it does a good job of pointing out…

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Another sign of getting older

Your parents forget your birthday.  (Well, two of the three did.) An excellent excuse to update my birthday list, since I in fact forgot my own sister’s birthday 2 weeks ago.

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The reverse of casino life

This didn’t occur to me until Sarah observed it, but my guess that Friday night would be a good day at the Big Game was dead wrong.  They could barely field two tables, and at midnight were down to just five players at one table of $1/$2 NL Hold’em.  I was ahead over $400 so…

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Things that amaze me

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…

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It’s much like a yo-yo

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…

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Shuffling off this mortal coil

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…

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