Poker and Life
Submitted by Rakewell, this article belongs to the Poker and Life series.
I recently read another long post on Rakewell’s PokerGrump blog and liked the way it touched on the subject of why we tend to remember our bad beats better when we are on the receiving end and how it becomes easier to deal with bad beats the more of them you have experienced. In addition Rakewell again draws parallels to situations that on the surface have nothing to do with poker, which I really enjoy and therefore
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This is the story of a Texas Hold'em variant known among my friends and I as Loco Poker.
Loco Poker was developed in Newcastle a few years ago when Artur and I took two weeks off to visit my brother and a friend of his who had set op base in Newcastle to live the gambler's dream. Now I'm not sure who actually invented it. If you ask Artur and my brother they will claim to their death that it's their child, but I like to think that the
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Submitted by Dungbeetle, this article belongs to the Poker and Life series.
Dungbeetle has had a rocky start to 2009 mostly due to losses in live cash games. Hopefully he will turn things around now that he's focusing only on tournaments for the time being.
In 5 of my last 6 cash sessions the format has been the same - make steady profit for the first few hours when sober, before drinking compulsively and ending up a few hundred down.
For some reason my brain has inextricably linked
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Submitted by McTap03, this article is a part of the Poker and life section.
With the new year now upon us, and me starting to play again (I took a brief unplanned hiatus over the holidays), I thought I would jot down some goals for the rest of this year. Since this is my first attempt at actually trying to plan long-tern (specifically for poker), please bare with me as I try to get all my thoughts onto this post.
Increase my BR
For me this would have to be my biggest goal for the year. I'm
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All poker players and gamblers in general run the risk of developing a gambling addiction for the same reason that all people who enjoy a drink once in a while run the risk of becoming alcoholics. I guess it's human nature to crave more of whatever makes you tick.
One of the most important steps towards treating any kind of addiction is realizing that you have an addiction. Now I'm fairly confident that my gambling is under control, but every
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Submitted by Dungbeetle, this article belongs to the Poker and life section.
Editor's comment: I just finished reading Dungbeetle's poker New Year's resolution for 2009 and found his views on the effects the financial crisis might have on the poker scene in 2009 to be very realistic. How do you think the financial crisis will affect your poker life in 2009?
I had intended 2009 to be a real make or break year on the poker front, in that I'd play in a number of EPT and WPT events as well as the
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This is the second article in my series about my Ficus Bonsai tree:
Ficus Bonsai
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The enormous response I received from my first article about my Ficus Bonsai tree has left me feeling obligated to write an update on how my tree is doing. When I left you last time on August 8th I had great hopes for my Ficus Bonsai. It was shooting new leaves all over due to my special treatment:
Buy a proper saucer and fill it with LECA (light expanded clay aggregate) pellets to
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I just returned home from a so called "Gentlemen's weekend" with my girlfriend's dad and 15 of his friends who I have never met before. The "Gentlemen's weekend" has been an annual event since 1996 and this year I was invited. To the outside world the primary theme of the trip is fishing but in reality it is more of a social get-together with good food, a lot of alcohol and semi-high roller (at least on my budget) card games.
The weekend started with a boat fishing trip out at sea. For those
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Have you ever had to teach something to someone? It can be anything at all from how to tie your shoes or kick a soccer ball to how something in your car works or some complicated aspect of your business works? I think we’ve all been in that situation on some level or another but maybe we never thought of it as teaching or coaching. When we explain something that we have come to take for granted we are forced to think about it in a way that we normally wouldn’t, which is why I think that one of
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There are a few things I figured out the other night -
The ceiling in my bedroom has 414 of those little paint swirls in it, the wood paneling on the far side of the room has 88 grooves, and a spider, whom I've aptly named 'Toby' seems to do nothing more that move back and forth from my dresser to the television for hours on end.
All of these facts are useless to me and I honestly had no intention of ever discovering them, least of all my little spidey friend, but a recent discussion with a
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