April 2012
Optimal Isn’t Being Solely Profitable
Take your time and learn something I work with a lot of poker players. My job is to do a number of the interviews for some larger backers. If the guys I pick do well, I get a bonus. If the guys I pick are duds, well, I imagine at some point I’d lose my [...]
Regulation: The Dawn of Online Poker's Third Age
Ten years ago, when Chris Moneymaker was just a marketing department’s wet dream, any Scott Tom, Anurag Dikshit or hairy Israeli could start an online poker site with a few lines of code, some clip art and a dash of moxy. The online poker landscape was a freewheeling Wild West: tinhorn operators competed for players [...]
Jason Somerville's Coming Out Party
Last summer Jason Somerville was on top of the world. With a rail full of good friends from the poker community Somerville beat a field of 3,175 players to win his first WSOP bracelet and bank nearly half a million dollars. That is the type of day every poker player dreams about. For most it [...]
All Grown Up: The World Poker Tour Turns 10
Since the first episode of the World Poker Tour aired in March of 2003, the poker world has seen a seemingly endless list of transformations and changes. Other tours and television shows have come and gone, poker has seen its ups and downs, but the WPT is still standing. As the show and the tour [...]
Over My Head: A Near Death Experience
I get a text on my cell phone from an unknown number. “Ray is putting together a game tomorrow night. Can you come? Nat will be there,” followed by a smiley face. I don’t know who sent the message, but I’m guessing because it mentions Ray and Nat, it’s someone from my regular Wednesday night [...]
Make It Fun: Playing With the Opposite Hand
Last month, I started a longtime venture, Still Served Warm, a traveling food blog. There were many hurdles to climb to get the blog off the ground, but the biggest obstacle was shifting my perspective of dining from mere enjoyment to conscious tasting. While before, I used to take upscale dining for granted, a kind [...]
Put Action on Paper: Start your Poker Journal Today
Oftentimes, it’s possible to take real world applications and apply them to poker, and other times, it’s poker that can be translated into the real world. Startup businesses are encouraged to formulate a business plan, to put their ideas on paper in order to get a better grasp of their business and what is needed [...]
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