Out of Position

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Quick Poll

Post Author By persuadeo
Post Date March 5, 2023
Post Comment 1 comment

18 min read

You’re 300,468 from the money in the combined superfinal tournament championship satellite put on by WSOPGG88CHATGPISKYNET, you have AK in the BB facing a jam with three blinds left. Losers are gravitationally compressed to a string of information in the form of non-binary characters and inserted into a strand of the Phil Hellmuth Foreverbot’s ear hair where they listen* and vibrate whenever he praises himself; at that […]

Notes from the Cage

Keeping it Together

Post Author By persuadeo
Post Date February 28, 2023
Post Comment 3 comments

190 min read

What a winter. After pulling out all the stops at the tables during a summer that featured more hours and daily discipline than I have summoned in years – even experiencing actual rungood during one extraordinary three week stretch – the door was shut hard on my slow return to form and financial strength. Of course, I stubbed my own toe and banged my own head on […]

Fragments

Big Bet Bob

Post Author By persuadeo
Post Date February 21, 2023
Post Comment 1 comment

108 min read

From the first, talking came easy to me. I was garrulous, and most of all, great with detail. “You have the gift of gab, Bobby,” my mother would say to me absently, in the middle of one of my endless stories or to encourage me when I was suddenly shy. Didn’t matter what I was going on about, I can see her now: school, the gang, girls […]

Culture

Alles Gut auf Poker Twitter

Post Author By persuadeo
Post Date February 9, 2023
Post Comment 0 comments

40 min read

Hallo! I’m Gruppencardführer Karl Von Bahdbiett, your friendly Nationalsozialiste card coach! In an effort to more distinctly separate myself from the competition, I want to make sure we’re all clear on what National Socialism is! –The rise of our Nationalsocialism starts in the Great War (of course, aren’t they all great) and the stab in the back that kept our great German Volk from winning it. We […]

Culture

The Index Finger Award

Post Author By persuadeo
Post Date February 5, 2023
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156 min read

The Global Poker Awards have become a somewhat regular thing and look likely to become a fixed feature of the poker world. While there is much to celebrate if the spotlight finds you, it seems another reaction is to both downplay and even disparage the awards while simultaneously longing for their recognition. For what it’s worth, I see a lot more of the latter this year than […]

Culture

Be Betterer

Post Author By persuadeo
Post Date January 31, 2023
Post Comment 0 comments

18 min read

What is up, fellow players of poker, it’s me, your favorite thumbnail creator and opinion recycler! While I was perusing my favorite content, such as Joey’s vlogs, Andrew Tate’s Kitchen, Crypto Erection Weekly, well-timed photographs of tournament athletes, and those amazing articles on vegasonlineslotsworld so I could vote for the GPI awards, I was saddened to see a terrible prank being pulled on a physically challenged gentleman […]

Fragments

Josephina the Player

Post Author By persuadeo
Post Date January 29, 2023
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84 min read

So anyway, there is Josephina, this popular player we all seem to love or hate, within reason, and many seem not to care too much about because we are the kind of people who all do many of the things she does, and yesterday she did something we might find amusing on a good day, but on a bad one we definitely don’t like it, or maybe […]

Fragments

Partisan

Post Author By persuadeo
Post Date January 24, 2023
Post Comment 0 comments

18 min read

“You’ve changed,” the partisan says. “You used to be so aggressive, it was inspiring! It would come ace king jack and BAM! I would just pot it, thinking ‘what would you do!’ Yeah, you really stuck it to the poker authorities back then, you were a muckraker, a man of the people who spoke truth to power. Now, I don’t know. It came jack ten nine and […]

Fragments

The Veil of Ignorance

Post Author By persuadeo
Post Date January 22, 2023
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52 min read

It was funny that John still played poker. After all the success, the books and articles, the interviews, that funny commercial, even the inauguration thing, he not only showed up to the game, he showed up every night. I don’t track other players results as much as judge them on a few intangibles, maybe a bet sizing or a comment that demonstrates understanding. It doesn’t take much […]