Table Tango

Can we form an opinion about a person’s personality based on their behavior at the poker table?  I say “HELL YES!”  Others would argue with me and say that they know the person away from the poker table and said person never acts that way anywhere other than the poker table.  Should we then conclude that said person is a perfectly normal, wonderful human being EXCEPT when their fists close around chips and their butt fills a player’s seat at a poker table?  (more…)

The answer to that is always ME!  No matter how many times I’ve seen a situation that was ugly or something happened that I had no control over and the scene tried to escape my thoughts at the speed of light, some part of me dragged it back to dissect it and open it up from the inside out and try to rationalize why or how or where it was going.  Once I’ve fully assessed the situation and I know it’s over and I can’t change it, my lazy side tries to sluff it off with “Who cares?” 

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Every day brings a new nightmare with the UIGEA.  I have been reading Roll the Bones by David G. Schwartz and I’ll admit to taking my time as I float through two to three pages at a time before I have to scurry off to do other things. There are so many gambling facts and figures spread out over mankind’s known existence that it’s difficult to even begin to absorb and remember most of it.  Out of all of the amazing facts and mankind’s obsession with gambling, since our beginning (or so it would seem), one fact is always pushed into our faces.  CONTROL! (more…)

Or am I so far ahead in the future that the past hasn’t caught up yet?   Is there a way to catch up or is there a way to slow down and allow everything to catch up?  The answer is there.  Right in front of me, lingering for a brief instant while it plays with my realities.  I’m sure that the day the answer is clear, the question will be playing with my realities and I will be deep in the perplexity of trying to grasp where it all started.  (more…)

I really feel like a slacker - I didn’t even take a picture of Dennis or Mark, or any of the staff that I worked with for years when I first came to Vegas.  I should have taken their picture.  Perhaps they will spoil me and allow me another opportunity.  (more…)

I watched Phil Hellmuth do his tirade and extreme Phil act while catching pieces of the first Director’s Cut of Poker After Dark on NBC Sports.  (more…)

Iggy has run away with his wife!  OMG!  Does that really happen in this day and age?  You betcha baby.  He’s gone.  Hopped a flight early this a.m. and he’s Mexico bound.  Expect some great blogging when he returns in a week, until then you have to make do with the rest of us here on PokerWorks! (more…)