Archive for September 2009
Would a Buddhist bluff at poker?
I'm around a number of Buddhists, though I'm not one myself. (Or, you could say, I'm an awful Buddhist who drinks, smokes, eats meat and denies being a Buddhist.) Recently, the lead teacher at the Insight Meditation Center, where I took their meditation course and occasionally attend while practicing my own form of bad Buddhism,…
Read MoreWhat’s it like to play a third of all the hands dealt to you?
Let me tell you, it's a lot of fun. You're like a giant suckout machine, and people constantly curse you for being a donkey. I'm experimenting with a new starting Limit Hold'em hand set I created using pokerstove for a style I've named "Drunken Master". Chris and Katie are familiar with this style, it's a…
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