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My Name is Freddy the Floater and I Am a Flop Addict

My Name is Freddy the Floater and I Am a Flop Addict

  I’ll save you the trouble of asking. They don’t call me Floater because I like to peel the flop in position, although I do. It’s because I drowned and came back to life, and that was all I talked about at the poker table, until I realized nobody gives a rip. So don’t worry.

But It’s Not Gambling!

But It’s Not Gambling!

“I would rather go naked than wear the coat the world has made for me.”   Novelist Dorothy Allison wrote those words, and my sister Judith sent them to me, lettered and framed, when I became a Professional Poker Player. That was in 1990. I was 32. This was Jude’s way of saying, “I get it.