I was playing in a 9-handed $5/10 NLHE cash game at the World Series of Poker in Vegas and a friend who I hadn’t seen in a while came up and tapped me on the shoulder to say hi. I was happy to see him and everything. But not really all that excited. On the
I have played a great deal of poker vicariously, through my clients. They send me hands they played, and we talk about them. All clients send me hands at the beginning, and some of them send me hands for years. I ask that the hands be written up in prose form, with analysis and feelings
The Butoff Words lag behind what they label. For example, the blogosphere was well past infancy before the word “blogosphere” existed. Bad beats were around long before the term “bad beat” was. And “the universe” was here for billions of years before it got its name. So it’s no surprise, given how fast poker is
Acting last is like taking a drink of water. We don’t have to understand why it’s good for us to know that it is. And the benefits are unaffected by our understanding of them. − from Elements of Poker
