ThAmerica/New_York 23rd 2007f August, 2007
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Poker One of the reasons I have enjoyed heads up Razz and HORSE Sit-n-Gos so much is that they match my style. My ability to read the board, understand my odds (both pot and drawing), and consider what my opponent is playing allows me to bully passive players and give the lagtards enough rope to hang themselves.
Where I run into trouble is against very aggressive players who know what they\’re doing.
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ThAmerica/New_York 20th 2007f April, 2007
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Poker What goes up, must come down. And don’t forget those spinning wheels, ’cause they got to go ’round. Or something. I feel like a spinning wheel on a roller coaster of late, at least on the poker front. About a week ago, I went on a nice run where my big cards held up, my draws came in more often than not, and my opponents donkey play paid off nicely.
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ThAmerica/New_York 06th 2007f April, 2007
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Poker Ever play in one of those poker tournaments where the dealer gets up and a brick layer sits down every time you get a card? Yeah, yeah, we all have.
I played in Cadillac Poker’s private "Anything But Holdem" (ABH) tourney last night — it was Razz this week — at PokerStars, and I am serious when I say that 97% of my hands were in the bottom 20%. That’s just harsh.
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ThAmerica/New_York 03rd 2006f December, 2006
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Poker I’ve been really focusing on the mental and player side of poker lately, and am really enjoying doing so. On Friday, I made a great read on a player and then played that read accordingly, and I have to tell you it felt great.
The hand:
I’m in the BB with the stellar holding of 9d5c.
Three people limp, the SB calls, and I check.
The flop is Ah 5s 2d
I check, two others check, and the hijack bets. The SB folds, and I think about the hand.
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ThAmerica/New_York 02nd 2006f December, 2006
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Poker Crack shall be a multipurpose word for this post. Really, I should make that cracked. I’ve had aces eight times in the last 14 hours of poker play, and they’ve been cracked like a dried out bone six of those times (I did win the blinds twice, so yippee-fucking-kai-yah-yay for that).
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ThAmerica/New_York 28th 2006f November, 2006
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Philosophy Poker I’ll be the first to jump up and admit that I am a far, far better poker player today than I was a few years ago, but my biggest leak has simply got to be my temper (second biggest leak is calling when I know I’m beaten, and a distant third is not playing back against a pre-flop raiser with a marginal holding when I know I am ahead).
I’ve been working on it, to be sure, and I’ve certainly improved this aspect of my game. For instance, I’ve weaned myself off of (almost all) smartass comments when someone pulls a suckout, but just this past week I had two situations where I allowed myself to get tense at the poker table.
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ThAmerica/New_York 25th 2006f July, 2006
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Darla Life & Times Poker It’s hot. It’s not Texas hot. Texas hot sucks. But Bay Area hot is almost as bad because so few folks have AC. I don’t have AC. That makes the hot suck. Clearly, BTW, going from unseasonably cool weather to unseasonably blazing-hell hot is proof that our environment is not changing.
Or something.
I got WTFPWNed today playing poker. Gotta love those days, especially when it’s hot. Still it’s been a good month, and life is generally grand. That I have so little to complain about that whining about the heat is top priority is indicative that things are good.
Speaking of good, I am super proud of Darla right now. She’s been busting butt at work, and being very successful while doing so. Her new store opening has been a series of challenges, and she’s risen to meet every one of them. I love how competent and talented she is.
ThAmerica/New_York 21st 2006f July, 2006
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Poker Politics I joined the Poker Players Alliance today. This is a lobbying group looking to protect our rights as poker players, and to promote poker as a game of skill that should be regulated and taxed, not banned. The PPA has the support of a number of big name players, including Howard Lederer, Jesus Ferguson, Linda Johnson, Greg Raymer, and a host of others.
Join the organization today if you want to see this sport continue to grow and thrive, and to combat the forces of big government and the religious right that want take away Internet poker.
On a similar note, I noticed that the Alliance is holding a fund-raising rally (link requires a PR Newswire account) at the Rio Hotel and Casino in Las Vegas on July 28th, 2006. Contact the PPA for more information, as the rally has not yet been added to the organization’s Web site.
ThAmerica/New_York 19th 2006f July, 2006
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Poker Politics The Bush administration has stupefyingly arrested David Carruthers, the British subject who is CEO of BetOnSports.com, a British-based publicly traded online casino. The charges are racketeering, conspiracy and fraud related to doing business with U.S.-based customers. Perhaps it’s a thank you to British Prime Minister Tony Blair for sticking by the U.S. in its disastrous execution of the "War on Terror."
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ThAmerica/New_York 17th 2006f July, 2006
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Poker Politics Press By way of introduction to my brand spanking new (8-month old) blog, I will blast some chuckleheads who fancy themselves "conservatives."
This past weekend, I interviewed with Ricky Spero for The Context Machine portion the TMO Weekly Round up (iTunes Link).
The Weekly Roundup is a weekly podcast recapping the week’s Apple and related-tech news. It’s great for you folks looking to catch up on everything in one great-sounding podcast. The Context Machine (a name I LOVE) is an analysis segment where Ricky brings on TMO editors to dissect the news, to give it more context, and to offer our opinions on what it means.
This particular show, we talked most about the recent house bill that attempts to stop online poker, while protecting online horse betting and online lotteries. In addition to this bill being hypocritical, pointless, and un-American, it’s real intent is not to stop online gambling (never mind that poker is a game of skill), but rather to be a handy wedge issue for the upcoming midterm elections in the States. It’s pandering to the fundamentalist Christians who don’t get that they’re merely the other side of the Taliban coin.
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