Category Archives: Poker

On the Road

It’s been a month of constant travel and work – Denver, to Dallas, to Wichita, to Wyoming, to Utah!

Now I’m droning away in the Beehive state, looking for an apartment.

Thinking about upgrading the ole’ Subaru legacy – SLC is a drivers’ town in a much realer sense than say, LA, which is actually a parker’s town. The highways here are a bit crowded, but only a bit, and they’re wide, with high speed limits. Treating myself to something with slightly longer legs would be nice. Ideally, since I love my legacy, the GT trim of the same car would be perfect.

Looks like the only poker I will have logged in the month of Jan will be the couple hours I donked away at the Hard Rock Tulsa, which is a nice little card room…only downside is the the slots in the casino are unusually fucking obnoxious, sounding like an old 50s phone.

Reminded me of this

In terms of resistances overcome, fears met, etc., I’m pretty sure this month will go down in personal history as I gritted my teeth and did standup for the first time.

We’ll see where that leads in the future.

Six Seals Left

This is actually happening: I’m linking the Daily Caller. 

Apparently even the right wing is starting to clue in to the fact that Sheldon Adelson is a crazy old liche.

Let’s be real for a second:

Most of us remember the online poker boom.

It was NOT bad for cardrooms. It was NOT bad for casinos.

The only thing harmed by the poker boom, hypothetically, was the american tax base – if we could have kept all those transactions domestic and taxed, we could have bought pet ligers for everyone in the state of Montana.

But let’s accept, for the nonce, as it were, harrumph, that Adelson’s paranoid old man visions are true:

The right better not help him.

If you say you’re for small government, for states rights, and for individual liberty, you better get out of bed with this guy and on the legal poker clue train as soon as you can get to the ticket booth.

“Poker is Pain Management”

onlinepoker.net has an interesting roundup of tweets from a busy weekend in the poker world.

particularly loved Todd Brunson’s:

“The subjects that come up at poker table: tonight: terrorist, beastiality, cannibalism…. I hope homeland isn’t tuning in tonight.. Well I was winning all night so johnny chan called for a brand new set up and I lost every hand. But I retaliated. 2 vodkas and I got even.”

Check out the full list here.