“And I think that it’s only in the private tournaments that I can play a full game, as full as I’m capable of playing, playing with the minimum of mental adjustments downwards for the level of play. That, probably more than anything else, contributes to my success rate in these tournaments.” If this is even [...]

Here’s a question that I don’t have the answer to. Alright, first a question that I do have the answer to. Why don’t I play more tournaments? Answer: Because I don’t like to wait for them to begin, and even if it’s a Sit and Go I don’t like not having control over when it [...]

I was searching through some of my old posts, searching for cashout/deposit information because I was trying to build a spreadsheet that tracks my “net”; my online bankrolls plus my net cashout/deposits. It’s actually starting to get to the point that I can’t keep track easily any more because of redeposits (chasing redeposit bonuses) and [...]

I ran across an interesting site. It’s called Global Poker Strategic Thinking Society. From it’s “About” page: “The Global Poker Strategic Thinking Society views poker as an exceptional game of skill that can be used as a powerful teaching tool at all levels of academia and in secondary education. We use poker to teach strategic [...]

I’ve had arguments with people over the use of the term “gambler” in conjunction with playing poker. Because you can define “gambling” as doing anything with an element of chance and a risk of loss, then poker has to fall into that definition. On the other hand “gambling” can apply to buying meat at the [...]

Are you free? Or maybe the question should be, how free are you? To what degree can you say that you chose to work every day, at the job that you work at? Or school, or family situation? Sometimes I wonder about people who commit crimes or commit suicide or suffer mental breakdowns or stress [...]

Okay, this is tough. I joined Blog Action Day on the topic of Climate Change. Something I do have concerns about, but, how to make it relate to poker? Climate change has connections to the variance that we experience as poker players. Short term seasonal change is standard. Even shorter term daily weather change is [...]

Sometimes I just feel like playing a game of poker. Not necessarily 4 tables, not necessarily pressuring the hands either by playing higher stake single tables. It almost makes me long for the days when I played play money; the casualness of the sitting down at a table, hoping to win but not feeling pressured [...]