I lose my patience in the crest of a distinctly poor run against Mr. Pink. He’s held over me for six months. Today it’s making trips to bail himself out on the river, then cooling me off with AA versus TPTK. Yet the irritation is not about one grinning opponent’s luck. I had gone to…
O that we now had here But one ten thousand of those men in England That do no work to-day! I have always been Westmoreland, always waiting for the right moment or wanting something else or needing something better to make it go. It would have been a fine ethic if I had lived a…
Reflections originally published in installments on Bad Reader. There are basically no literary events in poker. I wrote about one here, but even that excellent story received the usual indifference. We’re not exactly an illiterate bunch, we poker players, but we do gravitate to the trendy: crypto, NFTs, short-form video, even Twitter “spaces” were all…
We are sleepless when something needs doing. Since I paused the blog, I’ve been doing things, other things. I’ve been cooking for myself more and more. I’ve been learning new techniques. Doing small things right. I’m using squashes and cabbage regularly for the first time in years. I’m making the roux I needed for the…
I have mentioned on many occasions the biggest mistake of contemporary poker training: the confusion of data with theory. So I was interested when online expert Alex ‘Reverend Bayes’ Pinheiro announced the sale of a poker theory course. If words mean anything, this could be an answer for many. Now, it did not go past…
After being fired by the poker news site for asking relevant questions, talking to the wrong people and not Him, I sort of fell into the whole subject: I mean, what else is more important than the very future of the economy and how can I can get involved when I know so much and…
There are endless characters in poker, but the “post-literate” world only has so many journalists and bloggers recording and transforming them into stories. The ubiquitous vlogger, focused on selling his image, and photographer, focused on selling the industry’s image, can’t do it for legal and casino and formal reasons. This means the skill of storytelling…
Dean and I return with data scientist, writer, solver explicator and now author Michael Lukich. It’s his second time on the pod, and this time he kicks off a new round of Poker Zoo interviews. The day-old news is that Solver School is dead, but Solver School lives on, in this case, in the data…