Whisked Away Part 2: A Joe and Hobby Poker Fiction
I had been dreaming that I was in a dark smelly place. When I opened my eyes I discovered I was bound to a chair, lying on a dirty carpet. My mental computer went into turbo putting it all together. I remembered being outside the casino […]
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Mike Eikenberry
One Card Omaha-Known for his skillful no limit hold’em play, T.J. Cloutier is also one of the very best pot-limit Omaha players in the world. With five tables left in the WSOP pot-limit Omaha championship, I found myself on T.J.’s left with an average chip stack. T.J. had one of the larger stacks at […]
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Diane McHaffie
This is the first of two columns about stop loss.
What is it? It’s a concept that many poker players value. Mike isn’t one of them. He disagrees and thinks it’s foolish. Stop loss means you have a designated amount set in your head that you’d be willing to lose in a night or sitting. […]
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Tom Leonard
We’ve all seen the phrase “It depends” in poker literature many times. Yeah … about a kazillion times! “It Depends” is so frequently used because poker is so situationally dependent. Today let’s examine a situation that can be addressed multiple ways so it just might … (here comes the “D” word again) Depend.
Let’s say […]
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Paul ‘Dr. Pauly’ McGuire
Have you ever wanted to be a fly on the wall and witness a high stakes mixed game at Bobby’s Room in the back of the Bellagio featuring Doyle Brunson, Jen Harman, Phil Ivey, and Sammy Farha? Of course you have. Every poker player would love to have a glimpse of the […]
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Mike Caro is the ‘Mad Genius’ of Poker
Fourteen months ago, I was playing in a WSOP event against one of poker’s superstars, Phil Laak (a.k.a. the Unabomber). He suggested that I use as “Today’s Word” in this column something he had coined. I laughed and said it was a good word, but up until now, […]
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If We Met in a Former Life, Maybe He Was Straight Then New York Times - Over steak and red wine, Brian and I wasted no time in psychoanalyzing his past. He told me about a traumatic incident in his adolescence involving his then-girlfriend and his brother, and how it led to feelings of betrayal […]
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Keuka Lake wine to be served on American AirlinesRochester Democrat and Chronicle - (March 28, 2007) Dr. Konstantin Frank s Salmon Run Cold Brook Riesling will be served on American Airlines transcontinental flights during the month of April. The airline also said Wednesday it would serve The Bedell Cellars […]
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Bill Clinton Raises $70,000 Without Breaking a Sweat New York Times - The primping before political fund-raisers can go something like this: a trip to the hairstylist, perhaps a new dress or pumps, certainly a pressed suit, some well-applied makeup, a snack to absorb the white wine and a hired car or cab at the […]
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Real solutions for your real estate needs.USA Today - In Washington, D.C., technology company Blackboard is wooing job candidates with wine-tastings and baseball games. And is even more aggressive,” says Barbara Massa, recruiting services director at EMC, an information management and storage
March recallsAnderson Independent-Mail - The model and serial number […]
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