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Poker Pooch

Date: Tue, Oct 13, 2009 Internet

I played in a game recently where dogs were permitted in the poker room. As a rule, dogs should not be permitted in a place where poker is being played, particularly when some people have an instinctive fear of dogs, or when the dogs can become needy or unruly.

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Playing Through Pain

Date: Tue, Oct 6, 2009 Internet

I spent the weekend watching NFL football on television and what struck me was the violence of the collisions. Players are bigger and faster than ever before and many of them have very refined hitting technique. It’s a tough game, not for the timid. And it’s clear to me that NFL players, for the most part, play in a constant state of injury.

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Dirtied by Deuces

Date: Tue, Sep 29, 2009 Internet

As mentioned in previous columns, I experienced a scorching playing poker online and very much suspect that the entire enterprise is rigged. It would be ridiculous to think otherwise.

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By the Book

Date: Tue, Sep 22, 2009 Internet

After avoiding poker for several weeks, my friends Albert and Pino convinced me to play in a ring game in Etobicoke run by a “GQ,” a cocaine dealer we used to know back in the '80s when we were all scrounging around Little Italy for nickels and dimes, who had spent some time in jail and had cleaned up his act.

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Hiatus

Date: Tue, Sep 15, 2009 Internet

I recently took a hiatus from all poker playing. And that’s not a bad thing at all now and then. I needed to clean out the bad feelings I’d been developing toward it, particularly after being demolished online. In retrospect I never had a chance and I don’t think most folks do when they play online. But my bad feelings about online poker spilled over to live poker and I played like a true donkey.

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Ghosts in the Machine

Date: Tue, Sep 8, 2009 Internet

A friend of mine recently told me he’d been caught up in an email war with PokerStars over what he perceived to be some irregularities. Indeed, he had lost around $20,000 in a month and though I know he isn’t the best player around, he’s not much removed from a rock and plays as tight as you can play without being a rock.

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Churrasco Poker

Date: Tue, Sep 1, 2009 Internet

A few Fallsview regulars and I celebrated our birthdays a week ago. By some quirk all four of us were born in late August, and we all share some traits, being late summer babies and all, I’m convinced of it. We’re all pretty decent poker players, and we all love NFL football, mixed martial arts, Dean Martin, voluptuous women and the short stories of Ernest Hemingway.

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649,740 to 1

Date: Tue, Aug 25, 2009 Internet

A fellow I’ve run into a few times at Fallsview named Alessandro showed up the other night and I think he underwent some kind of transformation during one hand, which convinced me that poker has the power not only to humble people and reduce them to paranoiac babbling idiots, but it can sometimes reveal to its participants glimpses of the divine, of the paradisal, of the real and beautiful world t

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Lentils and Poker

Date: Tue, Aug 18, 2009 Internet

Table etiquette in poker isn’t a complicated thing, really. Too much demonstration, slow-rolling, talking when you’re not in the hand, smelling bad, looking bad, being a general asshole – it’s not rocket science my friends. Remember, when you’re going to a poker game that you’re not going to a bordello, a crack house, an abattoir, or a pig sty. Look at the fellows on television.

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Variance?

Date: Tue, Aug 11, 2009 Internet

The other day at a home game in Toronto I was complaining to my friend Carmenooch that I hadn’t seen pocket aces in over a month. “It’s statistically improbable,” I said. “The odds suggest that you should get pocket aces every 221 hands, or something like that. Well, between computer action and live games I’ve played more than a thousand hands and I haven’t caught a whiff of pocket aces.

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Beware of the Speech

Date: Tue, Aug 4, 2009 Internet

One of the reasons maxims become maxims is because they express a general truth or rule of conduct, crystalized over time.

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The Natural

Date: Tue, Jul 28, 2009 Internet

Alas, once in a blue moon you go to the casino and run into a player, nondescript, taciturn, perhaps dressed in modest or sports-related garb, wearing unremarkable sunglasses, very little jewelry, and absolutely no cologne or fragrance of any kind, who doesn’t seem to signify at the table at all, who seems to cast no shadow on the world whatsoever, and who will likely leave a rather small carbon f

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A Tragedy

Date: Tue, Jul 21, 2009 Internet

My friend Gaylord (named after the pitcher, no call for snickering) was understandably upset. Sometimes things happen in poker that simply transcend the understanding, that couldn't be foreseen, nay, in their most grotesque and horrific manifestations couldn't be conceived of even in a paranoid delirium. Gaylord is a solid player and a stand-up human being.

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An Ugly Incident

Date: Tue, Jul 14, 2009 Internet

Sometimes passions get overheated during a poker game. It’s understandable. If you’re not running well bitterness creeps in, animus, negativity. If you’re running well you might have a tendency to show off a little, bully the table, make jibes and jokes about your opponents’ playing ability.

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