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WSOP Prelims Trip Report
I had a bizarre and crazy week in Vegas. Rather than regale you with stories about how my Flip Cup team beat Harvard Business School's Flip Cup team, or...
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Revenge of the TAGs?
About a year ago, I was playing in a tourney on UB, somewhere near the final table bubble. I was the small blind and had pocket sevens. It folded...
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Die Rache der TAGs?
Etwa vor einem Jahr, spielte ich in einem Turnier bei UB, nahe der Finaltisch Bubble. Ich war im Small Blind und hatte Pocket-Siebener. Ich checkte und der Button erhöhte...
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Two Hands from the Opposite Poles
March was like a marathon trip to the endodontist for me at the poker tables, but I learned a lot from my root canal-like slump. One thing that was...
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Push the Pedal Down, and Keep it There
Momentum is a funny thing. We all know, or should know, that each hand is an independent event and that there's no such thing (in a mathematical sense) as...
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WPO Trip Report
My plan was to write a combined PCA + WPO trip report, but the second tournament was a much better poker experience for me, and it's much fresher in...
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Rizen's Razor
You have probably heard of Occam's Razor, which is a scientific principle usually paraphrased something like: "All other things being equal, the simplest solution tends to be the best one." The...
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Just Like a Mosquito Bite
I recently took my 7 year-old daughter to get a cavity filled. The dentist told her that the novocaine injection would not hurt - he said it would feel...
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Lost in Translation
I played a gazillion hands of limit poker before I ever played a no limit tournament or NL cash game. It was great training and highly profitable, and I...
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It's Just Math---Or is it?
Someone smart (may have been Matt Matros) wrote an article about how you have to take very small edges - even coin flips with a pair - in a...