My New Thing

My new thing when I see someone sit down at a $2/$4 or $3/$6 table with a huge buy-in (like $700+) and they start trying to push people around on pots is I get their attention and then I ask “Hey, are you that bad that you need to sit down with that much money …

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Can Someone Explain Party To Me?

Why does every table on Party break up withing 1/2 hour? I play on Paradise all the time and you can still be playing with the same people you started with 5 hours later. At Party 20 minutes on a table and all of a sudden you look up and 2 chairs are empty and …

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I Popped My NL Cherry!

You know one thing that will really make a woman mad? Just run up and kick her in the butt. (P.S. This also works with men.) –Jack Handey Though I’ve played plenty of tournament NL, I’ve never found myself at a NL cash game. Last night Zengy called me up around 9 and we met …

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Book Review: Basic Economics

“Basic Economics” has to be one of the worst titles ever developed for a book that contains so much useful information. Actually the full title is “Basic Economics: A Citizen’s Guide to the Economy” which still doesn’t quite do this book justice. What makes this book unique is that the author, Dr. Thomas Sowell, states …

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A Bad Beat . . . That I Wasn’t On The Losing End Of

For once, a bad beat I was happy to lay down on someone else. 🙂 Preflop: Hero is SB with Ac, Ad. UTG folds, UTG+1 calls, MP1 folds, MP2 calls, MP3 calls, CO folds, Button folds, Hero raises, BB folds, UTG+1 calls, MP2 calls, MP3 calls. Flop: (9 SB) 4s, As, 9d (4 players) Hero …

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