Adventures on the Poker Felt

Poker is so brutal; many disappointments and unexpected letdowns.  After relentless torture, you flop the nuts and play cautiously.  This comes from experience.
What other game is like that?
Many approaches are taken.  Raise/re-raise then bet some more, bet/call, limp/call, limp/shove or just fold and GTFO.
Coin flips, 60/40 races and the ol’ two outer suckout.  When I [...]

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I’ve spent my entire life in Southern California.  I grew up surfing and playing sports with the neighborhood kids.  I had a real love for surfing.  We’d bike to the beach every weekend with a trailer hooked to the back of someone’s bike hauling our surfboards, boogie boards and fins.  We’d spend all day at [...]

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I’ve been struggling for several months with the motivation to play focused and disciplined online poker.  There always seems to be some distraction keeping me from putting in the hours I should.  But now that football season is over and the Bolts discovered another epic way to implode, I really have no excuses not to [...]

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Full Tilt poker has introduced a sick twist to online poker, the game we love to hate.  This bastardized version of online cash game crack is “Rush Poker”.
Before Rush Poker, you’d see an average of approximately 65 hands per hour playing at a 9-handed full ring cash table.  Now with Rush Poker you can see [...]

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got my money in good and junk kicked for the umpteenth time.
Happy New Year all! Be safe and prosper.
Please let our hands hold up in 2010.

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