Well, I’m not really designing a poker bot, per se. But it’s an approach that I’m planning to use for a while. A respected (by others besides myself) poker friend of mine once suggested establishing a goal for your poker sessions, such as, focus on opportunities to float. Then you would keep an eye out [...]
Some time ago I sent an email to an online friend, someone whom I consider to be something of an online sensei in the realm of Zen. Unlike the author of Zen and the Art of Poker my friend doesn’t know much about poker, but also unlike the author of that book my friend does [...]
Great Plains (aka Microsoft Dynamics GP) just drives me up the wall sometimes. Some software is just annoying. Fortunately if we don’t like a piece of software we can often avoid it. If you don’t like Internet Explorer, use Mozilla (I do). If you don’t like Windows in general, use a Mac or Linux. But [...]
(Written back early Dec of 2009; I guess I never opted to publish it so it’s been sitting in my review basket) One of the potential advantages of playing multiple tables of online poker is that you can gain some detachment. You aren’t staring at one or two tables the entire time, you whole poker [...]
In ‘Zen and the Art of Poker” there’s a line that goes, “You need to think of folding as a club you are using to pummel your opponents with.” The line prior to this says, “Very few events, games, or sports work this way, with the winner being the one who withdraws himself from competition [...]
One of the keys of poker is losing. It’s a fact that we all lose, and often. Even the best players lose hands, lose pots, lose sessions and lose tournaments because of the degree that chance plays in poker. But that losing keeps the bad players playing with us, so we have to lose, and [...]
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 [...]
Try this. Stop, and listen. Listen to every sound that comes to your ears. It might be hard to listen attentively to more than one sound at a time, so at first try switching from one sound to another. Then try to listen to two at a time. Then add more. Does that change your [...]