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…
Dr. Peng was the first to respond. A man had slipped past me and security’s ID check in their usual daytime ease. His clothes were dark and his face was shaven; only a hint of white stubble placed his age. He wore a baseball cap and shades. He kept his head down. He spent some…
The countdown was not what I thought it was. Beyond the obvious, I thought the subtext to the countdown was something to do with my bankroll, and how its latest iteration might finally fail. Then the dreams started. I began to see my life in a different way. I did not think this was possible.…
Is there meaning in the cards? Perhaps. You can explore the symbologies of the game, and that may help give your life a more graspable context. The strategic value of this analysis is minimal. However, there are ways of looking at the game that can aid you, especially at times of crisis. The basic perspective…