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Vegas in July

Date: Sun, Aug 22, 2010 Live Tournament

The pokerboyz and I went on our annual July pilgrimage to Vegas. It’s generally hot, cheap and a bit slow that time of year. But the poker scene was a lot slower than it has been in years. We tried to play as many tournaments as possible. But one day Planet Hollywood cancelled its tourney due [...]

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Poker Alienation (and the Perfect Dress)

Date: Sun, Jul 11, 2010 Live Tournament

The World Poker Tour hit it out of the park when they hired one of the best tournament directors in the business. Matt Savage is a poker player’s TD. He’s known for his consistency, accuracy and fabulous structures. But the WPT lost it in extra innings for me with the “Royal Flush Girls.” The question isn’t [...]

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Last Longer

Date: Sun, Jul 4, 2010 Live Tournament

I thought I played in the longest running regular home game in Austin. The gang has been getting together almost every week for more than 15 years. But in Friday’s paper, I learned that Austinite Emma Long has been running hers for over 60 years. Emma was the first woman elected to the Austin City Council back in [...]

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Investing and Poker a la Fargis

Date: Sun, May 30, 2010 Live Tournament

The Pokershrink took this picture of Chris Fargis in January 2006. Fargis was on his way to winning the Triple Draw Lowball event at the WSOP Circuit at the Grand in Tunica. For the win, he pocketed $22 grand. Through 2006, Fargis amassed over $137K in recorded live tournament events. As mostly an online player, that was [...]

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Photoshopped…At Last

Date: Wed, May 5, 2010 Live Tournament

I covered poker for years — before poker was cool — before Moneymaker — before the WPT.  In all that time, I was never the subject of a 2+2 thread. And I never dared dream that I would ever be photoshopped by one of the 2+2 photoshop wizards. But thanks to aramfingal, I can die a [...]

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Are Bookies More Ethical and Smarter Than Goldman Sachs?

Date: Sat, Apr 24, 2010 Live Tournament

Ideally, large investment banks are like bookmakers. Sportsbooks set up a fair wager that will attract bettors. They set the line to attract equal action on both sides. As the wager starts to attract bettors, the line readjusts to make sure the action is balanced. If a sportsbook still ends up having unbalanced action, it will work with other sportsbooks to [...]

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Frugal Detective Work

Date: Sun, Apr 4, 2010 Live Tournament

Billionaire Andy Beal beat Ted Forrest (and the corporation) out of $10 million in a poker game at the Wynn. Right after the victory, I overheard Beal confirming his travel plans with Beal Bank VP, Craig Singer. Towards the end of the call, he added, ”And see if they’ll bump us up to first class.” As shocking as Beal’s win was — I think [...]

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Reclaiming Space and a Mini Book Purge

Date: Mon, Mar 29, 2010 Live Tournament

I looked at it twice. I remembered exactly when it was written: April 17, 2006. But I hadn’t remembered that I had it all this time. It was a draft of Chris Ferguson’s chapter of The Full Tilt Poker Strategy Guide: Tournament Edition. Something was written in bold letters, in black sharpie, on the top [...]

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The Wall Street Shell Game, and is Frugality So Wrong?

Date: Sun, Mar 14, 2010 Live Tournament

A friend of mine recently told me that a private equity firm was about to buy his family business. He was surprised when I advised against it. He explained his father wanted to retire with a nest egg from the sale. I asked, “Well what are you going to do for the rest of your [...]

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The SXSW Invasion Countdown

Date: Sun, Mar 7, 2010 Live Tournament

I moved to Austin in March of 1993, just a couple of weeks before the SXSW Music festival. I bought myself a wristband for $35 and spent three days hiking the streets of downtown, listening to hundreds of mostly unsigned bands from around the world. The weather was warm. The margaritas were cold. And the music was [...]

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Crossing Over

Date: Sun, Feb 21, 2010 Live Tournament

On Thursday, the big flat panel in the hallway of our office wasn’t tuned to CNBC. Instead it was blaring the local news, covering the story about a plane that hit a building about a mile from our office. I was more preoccupied following a different story online. My neighbor’s house, just a couple of blocks away from my own, was [...]

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Wiped, Recovered and Carli’s 50th

Date: Sat, Jan 30, 2010 Live Tournament

Since Biloxi, I’ve been fighting viruses — a cold and a computer virus.  The cold was also picked up by the Shrink and rggator. We don’t necessarily blame Idouru, who had one while we were all in Biloxi. (cough, cough). I can’t quite pinpoint the source of the computer virus, howver, although I suspect it was a fake Facebook email.  [...]

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Sadly Vahedi and Biloxi is My New Tunica

Date: Sun, Jan 10, 2010 Live Tournament

Before Chris Moneymaker won the WSOP, propelling the game into a Cinderella fantasy, I got to know many professional players during my trips to Tunica, Mississippi. There were no fans. There was no television. Jack Binion’s World Poker Open was a refuge for hardcore players, looking for a chance to do what they did best. And I knew when I [...]

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A Tale of Two Amy Calistris

Date: Thu, Nov 26, 2009 Live Tournament

A couple of nights ago, the Poker Shrink forwarded an email from Dan Michalski. It said “46 searches for ‘amy calistri scam’ have brought people to Pokerati this month. Did she write about a scam or is she in one?” I also got emails from Oliver Tse saying he has been seeing an ad with my picture [...]

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