At the end of another long night of 73o and missed flops at two different limits and three tables, I’m exhausted, worn. A favorite dealer has asked me what is wrong, Nothing that can be cured, of course. I’ve earned a small win painfully after felting a possibly tilting nit, and am ready to leave. With…
When DZ checks the turn after raising Miniman’s donk lead, I put the pro on eight-six suited. It’s a fast check, really much too quick, because if DZ had a set he would have considered continuing his aggression, even with the severe hit the straightening card delivered to his perceived equity share. Holding eighty seven…
I turn and see Shaky, nice guy and poker mark, going home with 2.5k. The two of us stare at his chips in disbelief. Shaky is a lean, handsome man, late fifties, brown eyes, recently haircut and shaved. His arms are wiry, unmuscled but overly tanned from good vacations, bad golf, and a well-managed diet. …
Eighty degrees, deuce. Serve, return, misplaced approach; Hando dribbles J4 over the high part of the net. It’s likely he intended this defense to go elsewhere, or, perhaps, he had no idea where he wanted it to go. Not sure how such a limp-wristed stab is really supposed to send a tennis ball anywhere in…
Seven hundred big blinds in front of me, Q3o in the hole, six callers, getting lazy; something else is on my mind. Sorry, it’s on me; can I cbet this monotone board? Yes, apparently, as I watch my hands pushing chips. Chinese Eager Beaver next to me, raising his body upwards and erect in a…
Gargamel has disappeared. He hasn’t actually vanished, or been bound and kidnapped by a crowd of torch bearing Smurfs, but he is still gone for another day. In fact, the WSOP has carried away not only your favorite Villain, but silent Osiris as well, perhaps the only other true TAG in the player pool and…
I am a workaholic. I am so happy about this development, so grateful. All my life, whether from circumstance or cynicism, I’ve held jobs that did not truly engage me, no matter how interesting or uninteresting, well-paying or penurious, easy or hard. Finally, as a poker player, I look forward to my job. Like the…
Gargamel is diabolic. Blessed with top percentile mathematical ability, he calculates his hourly at the table, adjusted for the swings of his session. He wants to extract every last dollar from his victims; if he missized a bet that was supposed to be called, I have to hear about the $20 he lost out on…
Thanks to Red Chip Poker I have bumped up my flight to Vegas from a flight accommodating a short family visit and a concurrent $1000 NL paper chase, to a free lotto ticket in the so-called Colossus reentry marathon beginning May 29. The four starting flights of this inaugural tourney will be spread over two…