Archive for November 2008
Grim proof that my wife is one of the smartest people on the planet.
As we watched the tragedy in Mumbai unfold through the Web (web tv coverage from India was better than CNN or MSNBC on cable), the horror of it all really sank in. When the first accounts came out that guests at the Taj hotel were being herded into rooms, locked in and then ignored, I…
Read MoreCongrats, you beat 51 people to win an entry into a poker tournament you can’t compete for!
Any denials that "I am not a degenerate gambler" just went out the window. I play sometimes on sportsbook.com, one of the Cake network poker sites that's really a sportsbetting website. I don't sports bet (if you know me at all, you know my aversion to anything else in a casino except poker) but I've…
Read MorePoker Strategy – Pot Odds, Hand Strength, and other topics
IntroductionI’ve been playing poker since I was a kid, when my family played 5 card draw in between highly competitive games of Uno. (Cheating was a strategy, and mirrors were employed once to great effect.) However I’ve really only been studying poker since 2005. I’m at that level where if a handful of casual friends…
Read MoreDealing with a blinds thief / stealing the blinds / defending your blind
It happens all the time in Hold’em: you’re in the big blind and some jackass goes to steal your big blind. Stealing blinds is good money in a casino that doesn’t rake until the flop, but to be successful at it you have to be able to play after the flop or pick on a…
Read MoreRunning away to sea
Everyone has their version of 'running away to sea'. Mine involves getting into the family car and going to Las Vegas or Reno, NV to shark the low-limit tournaments against the tourists for a living. (Not a very good living, I'd like to point out) My friend Derick's 'run away to sea' fantasy has always…
Read MoreSafdar Tournament Poker Bootcamp
Attention friends, especially Matt's friend, Lem who will be in Vegas December 5th: There's talk of a tournament-focused trip to Vegas to reprise the Safdar Tournament Poker Bootcamp from this summer, the weekend of December 5th thru Tuesday December 9. Most of us have not cleared it with our spouses. If it comes together, we'd…
Read MoreThe Hungry Years: A Narrative History of the Great Depression in America
One of the major American economic crises of the last century was the Great Depression. In the year that followed the stock market crash of October 1929, everyone from President Hoover down to line workers at auto plants believed that their fortunes were not inextricably linked to those of thestock market. Hoover's quote the day…
Read MoreShenanigans in Reno, NV
My Obama partner and I have two red staters assigned to watch us. We all sit here in the observer pen. They complain about everything we do, and have the McCain palin lawyers on speed dial. My friend in sparks brought me a coat and hat since it's snowing and the McCain volunteer stood…
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