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Just moments ago, I took this photo from my room at The Venetian:

Look at the windows on Treasure Island. See the shutters? See the little balcony thingies? Now count the stories. You should come up with something close to 17.

Next let’s look at how many rooms are on a each floor. The building consists of three slabs that meet in the middle. You can see one full wall of one slab in the picture, and you can clearly see that there are 9 windows.

There are two problems here. Treasure Island is a 33-story building, and the slabs are 18 rooms long.

The secret of Treasure Island is that each of those windows that appear to be a single window is actually the windows of four hotel rooms made to look like one. (Bellagio does the same thing.)

The obvious question is: Why? No secret there. It’s The Strip. It was done to make money. Which takes us to the next question: How does this optical illusion generate more profit than the alternative?

You’re on your own on that one. All I promised was a secret. I didn’t say anything about solving mysteries.

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All I was doing was driving down the road. I wasn’t looking for meaning. I hadn’t asked for a sign. But I got one anyway…

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I am familiar with the proper protocol in these situations. When the words appeared before me, I looked for the meaning of life in them.

It’s obvious enough what “ram speed” is. And “cruise speed.” But what is this “hump speed?” And why was this sign revealed to me? Is it meant to answer my questions? Or is it supposed to make me question my answers?

Or maybe it is intended to send me spinning in a speculational spiral, such as… “What is the speed of one humper humping?”

Whatever it is, they should put it somewhere else. I was so distracted that I drove way too fast over a large swell in the road.

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The Eightfold Path to Poker Enlightenment (EPTPE) is a poker video series I made with Wayne Lively and Rob Cole. It’s about making your A-game better and playing your A-game more often. Today I launched a web page that contains many words by me about the series, plus all sorts of goodies:

•   The music from the eptpe series (80 mp3s of piano music played by me)
•   Three songs from my 2001 CD, “I’m Running Bad.”
•   All of the songs from my 1980 album, “A Work of Aardvark.”
•   Original drawings from the EPTPE video series
•   Photographs
•   Some favorable posts from the DeucesCracked forums
•   Links to each of the 8 EPTPE episodes at DeucesCracked, where you can see the first two minutes of each episode for free. After that, it’ll cost ya!

Here’s the webpage:

http://tommyangelo.com/the-eightfold-path-to-poker-enlightenment.html

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You’re playing live poker and you just folded before the flop. You’ve got a minute or two, maybe longer, before you get more cards. What to do? What to do? You could watch TV. You could turn the volume up on your headphones. You might order a beverage, or converse with a player. Maybe you’ve got some urgent tweeting to do. Heck you might even just sit there and watch the players play the hand. Whatever you do, it’s okay. You can still recover from it. Just as long as you do this one last thing:

Assume the position.

Imagine you’re in the middle of a big and dramatic headsup pot. On the turn, your opponent bets out. You have him covered. You say, “I’m all in.” And you freeze.

Your opponent pauses. His pause stretches into a delay. The delay elongates into a stall. After a while, the stall extends itself fully and becomes overtly annoying, to everyone, but especially to you, and he keeps poking his eyes at you, then looking at the wall or something, and then he stares at you again, and you look away when he does, and you’re trying to keep still and not give up anything, but you feel yourself squirming around because your body is not in a stable position. It’s weak. It’s out of control.

Have you ever found yourself semi-frozen in a slouchy, undignified posture and been stuck there during the all-in freeze frame? I sure have. Lots of times. And I’ve seen it too. It reminds me of that original Star Trek episode where people are frozen in time in whatever posture they happened to be in. It’s as if saying the words “all in” commits the speaker to a ritualistic stillness ceremony.

So, what to do? How do you insure that you will look strong when you’re being looked over?

Assume the position.

download film No matter what you are doing or thinking between hands, when the dealer starts dealing, stop. Stop, and pretend. Pretend you’re playing that big pot. You make your big all-in raise, and you freeze. Your opponent looks like he is going to take a while. Stop and imagine that moment. Imagine the posture you would want to be in. The one that makes you look good and feel good. The one that says I got no worries or hurries. And then assume that position. If you do this before every hand, you will know you have done your best.Inhabited move buy The Sword in the Stone

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