The Blue Marble by Tommy Angelo

I was 14 years old in 1972 when astronaut Harrison Schmitt aimed a Hasselblad camera out the window of the Apollo 17 spacecraft on its way to the moon and took a photograph of the full earth from 25,000 miles up. NASA dubbed that photo “The Blue Marble”. It showed the world the world, with …

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Assume the Position by Tommy Angelo

You’re playing live poker and you just folded before the flop. You’ve got a minute or two, maybe longer, before you get more cards. What to do? What to do? You could watch TV. You could turn the volume up on your headphones. You might order a beverage, or converse with a player. Maybe you’ve …

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On the EV of Mouse Smashing by Tommy Angelo

I just got off the phone with a mouse smasher. Or you could call him a mouse masher. (It sounds the same either way, whether you are saying it, or doing it.) I’m going to call him Humphrey. The topic was poker coaching. During the conversation, Humphrey asked some questions I had heard before: Q: …

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Could You Get Away From This Hand?

Massive laydown. Even Mike “The Mouth” Matusow who accuses every other player in the world of being a donkey that can’t fold could only say “How do you f*cking fold that hand? WOW! Oh my god. Wow! Wow! I would have never folded that hand. That is the fold of the tournament I’ve ever seen. …

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