Questions from the Felt

A few musings after a Saturday night poker game: Do the biggest assholes at the poker table even have a … More

I Should Be So Lucky

Let’s look at a recent Texas Holdem hand in parallel universes.  In our regular universe, we see it as played, … More

Tantalus, Greek God of Temptation, Part 2

IMy previous post focused on the physiological effects of excitement, and the attendant difficulty of shifting emotionally from “I just flopped … More

The Worst Rule in Poker

“I want to see her cards.”  Who knew such a simple sounding request would nearly lead to an all out … More

Mistakes and Coolers

In David Sklansky’s classic book The Theory of Poker, the author introduces his Fundamental Theorem of Poker: Every time you … More

I Played That Right, Didn’t I?

Last night, on the 5th hand of an online poker session, I get the coveted pocket aces. As a good … More

An Embarrassingly Bad Call

I didn’t want to write this post, but I’ve been thinking about this hand for several days and need to … More

When Dreams Come True

You know that poker hand you dream about?  When you’ve been running so bad you resort to writing terrible poetry, … More

Bad Beat –> Happy Tilt. Oh my!

This post involves our friend “Myles” from the previous post, where I made a massive over-bet all-in river shove.  Read … More

2 Straight Flushes in One Hand

I’ve never seen this before.  Last night at a $1/1 home game, two of the players got all-in on the … More