Made it through to Day 2 with 86,800 and was feeling good about it. I should have been sent home shortly after dinner with my last 12k in the middle and AQ against KK, but I spiked. From there I went on a pretty good heater, flopping a set and getting my man to fire multiple barrels at me, and just generally betting and taking it down for the ( Read more... )

I'm here in San Remo, Italy. As I write this, it's noon, the scheduled start time for Day 1, but due to registration issues, bureaucracy and so forth it looks like 1:30 PM is the new start time ( Read more... )

I don't like how my financial portfolio looks. It's unbalanced, undiversified, and currently cash-heavy when considering predicted online poker shrinkage ( Read more... )

Black Friday was actually Saturday for me here in Hong Kong; I woke up to Twitter, my IMs, and my phone going crazy before I'd even had a chance to make coffee. Now it's 10 PM here and my day is winding down just as poker players in North America are realizing that sadly, yesterday was not a bad dream ( Read more... )

It's past 1am in Phuket, and I'm settled into my small bungalow here across the street from Tiger Muay Thai and MMA, where I'll be training for the next week. The bungalow will seem a bargain by first-world standards at about US$230, but I'll be training alongside people who have paid less than one-third of that price to train at the same location ( Read more... )

...be yourself, in your station in life, here in the year 2011? Or the wealthiest person on the planet in the year 1700 ( Read more... )

A couple of weeks ago, over one of my many lunches with my friend Mike here in Hong Kong, I complained to him about feeling tired and ineffective during daytime training. When I'm in Vancouver, it's a breeze for me to train twice a day; usually at noon for an hour, and then around 7pm for two hours. I have absolutely no trouble doing so and I ( Read more... )

I think this is probably a bad rule.

Accepted Action: Poker is a game of observation. It's the players responsibility to ensure the accuracy of another player's bet and/or all-in wager regardless of what is stated by the dealer and/or other players at the table. If a player requests a count but receives incorrect information from the dealer or ( Read more... )

A very long time ago, at least in internet-time, I ranted about the rise of Twitter. In that post I expressed my lamentations that Twitter would replace actual intelligent thought on the internet and was mind-numbingly narcissistic and banal. I also claimed that I would never use Twitter to post my own personal banalities but instead use it only ( Read more... )

We're meant to run barefoot, so they say. And it's hard to argue. Our ancestors ran barefoot to hunt down mammoths. Or something. (Yeah, they also tended to die in their 30s, but one probably wouldn't postulate that too many of those deaths were attributable to foot abrasions.) It is probably not a coincidence that barefoot shoes like the ( Read more... )