Back At The Tables

Finally was able to get in about 100 hands this evening after about a week and a half break from the virtual (and b&m) tables. Played two tables at Paradise and seemed to hit some big hands early on both tables and the remainder of the session was pretty much just drip, drip, dripping my …

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Quote of the Day 4/5/04

If you are an excellent player, people are going to draw out on you a lot more than you’re going to draw out on them because they’re simply going to have the worst hand against you a lot more times than you have the worst hand against them. – Bobby Baldwin (Theory of Poker, page …

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Web Engines Plan to End Online Ads for Gambling

Under pressure from the federal government, Google and Yahoo both announced that they would no longer accept advertising from online casinos. The new government strategy for putting a halt to online gambling is to threaten those who advertise the services of the casinos. As nearly all casinos are set up in countries outside of US …

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Easiest or Hardest Job in the World? You Decide.

I was reading The Economist recently and they had the story of Abdi Jimale Osman, Somalia’s minister of tourism. Unfortunately, or fortunately depending on how you look at it, Somalia hasn’t had a tourist in 14 years. One of the few hotels in Mogadishu recommends that visitors hire at least 10 armed guards to escort …

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Pauly’s Quest For The Gold

I just got done reading Pauly’s post over at the Tao of Poker and I have some mixed thoughts on it. To give the background (in case you didn’t read the link), Pauly has made it into the final rounds of a satellite tourney for a seat at the WPT tourney at the Bellagio. Total …

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