I’m back home again – or rather, I have no home, I’m just somewhere else – and it seems, my mother may not have hers that much longer either. I no longer have the funds to pay her new and catastrophic debt, yet my sister has a spot for her in a future house. The world revolves and problems are solved unexpectedly. I appreciate, more than ever, […]
Guest post today from JamBasket, with illustrations by Julie Travel Day As a WSOP Main Event freeroll winner, there are certain appearance requirements that come along with the fame, at least that’s what I tell my wife. As it happens, the WSOP Freeroll Council is holding an important meeting in Las Vegas that I need to attend. I really need to teach her how to call these […]
There I was, watching videos of cats, tasteful interracial porn and Phil Galfond, you know, a normal day at the screen, learning how to value bet, supporting centrist politicians against the literal Nazis in power and making sure that new, clean nuclear reactor is built in a less important state, when I came upon this terrifying tweet. Oh. My. God. Where were you when Steven Braddip shot […]
My name’s Dilbert Howard, and look, we need to talk. You probably know my two brothers better, but I in fact have an even cooler, hipper blog and an even more sophisticated MDA extraction technique on the way. Now, while my brothers and other important people in the poker community have made it an absolute priority of late to information dump as much as possible without thought […]
An employer invited six people for an interview at 7:00 am. They arrived, all dressed sharply and just before the call time. The employer told them to wait. By 6:00 pm everyone had left but one. He got the job, because the interview was a test of PATIENTS. Did you hear that, it was a test of PATIENTS! Because it was not a job interview. It was […]
Every community is different – culture exists, or I should say is a thing, for you online poker players. However, the rules governing voluntary communities are always the same. (It’s always Tolstoy, innit.) One rule of every community is that the moth is always drawn to the flame. Poker, in other words, attracts the vast majority of its adherents not from people who are good at what […]
My mother does everything slowly. It’s not an affectation. She is old. There are things that don’t need to be done, however. Today, she’s taken the white meat off the rotisserie and placed it on a sheet pan in order to oven heat it. I’m reluctant to touch the so-carefully destroyed slices of chicken. I don’t want to sense the inevitably disappointing dryness, the futility and waste […]
Guest post today from JamBasket, with illustrations by Julie I want to play a few live tournaments before the WSOP Main Event, so I booked a trip to Las Vegas to play a few events in the Wynn Millions. During the week leading up to my departure date, I really wasn’t in the mood to head to Vegas. The day before my trip was to begin, I […]
The Russian isn’t really a Russian, just a local comic books guy who plays poker well and comfortably. He drinks and enjoys himself and loses his accent, if there ever was one. He likes to berate others, especially when they don’t play like he wants them to play; to hear his barbs is to hear a thin compliment; he uses laughter as a manipulative signal rather than […]