Poker and gambling

So I’ve setup twitter as an experiment during the upcoming Vegas trip.  If you’re interested in following me, you can check the right column of the blog at www.safdar.net, my Facebook status, or actually follow me on twitter if you’re that sort of person that actually uses twitter to follow people. I may not keep…

A couple of years ago, right before Moishe was born, I made a long desired trip to play in one of the baby events at the World Series of Poker.  I did terribly and got put out after an hour and twenty minutes, but it was fun nevertheless.  The rest of that trip was mostly…

This is overdue, but I’ve been freakin’ busy with work and family life.  These numbers are stored in PokerTracker and every session is logged, so the quality is good. Let’s recap what I vowed to do in 2007 after the lessons I learned in 2006: Stop playing online poker for real stakes.  I lose money…

Paging Chris, your friends are wondering why you haven’t been heard from in over a month.  Call Brad or myself to check in so we know you’re ok.

Sheesh, I thought I left this behind when I came west, apparently they raid tiny little poker games here. The players group, which advertised on Meetup.com, typically required a $25 to $55 buy-in, said Alcantara and members of the group. An additional refreshment fee of $5 was collected as well. On Monday, members of the…

While on business in DC this week I found out that my favorite underground room (which I will never name here) has started a mixed limit game three nights a week. (While I was at the game, I won a boot.) This is some sort of heaven.  It’s $8/$16 rounds of Hold’em and Omaha/8, two…

So at the end of October I had my first losing session in a long while.  After twelve convincingly profitable sessions over about 40 days where I knew I outplayed my opponents and I minimized the random cards I was getting, I hit the double whammy: I got a run of barely playable hands at…

I picked up a poker table and tournament chipset off Craigslist for $200 plus the cost of a Zipcar Tacoma pickup truck.  I’m looking forward to assembling a home study game.

Last night I went to my favorite cardroom and ran smack into a horseshoe.  After sitting down, I played three big hands.  In the first two I simply had a better hand and decided to push a football bettor who was on tilt really hard and he just consistently called my all ins.  In the…