April 20, 2007
But in the online world of 24/7 poker, these same pokerparty players find themselves unwittingly enslaved to the virtual table. Mom always said there would be days like this, and losing is a part of poker. I made him promise he would always play his hardest against me. We were eventually hand for hand. I'm forced into the middle. in The Majestic Poker Room! He asked me to call him the following day and gave me his pokerparty phone number. Next to him was TJ, last year's Player of the Year, and poker author. My philosophy exactly, adds the Bumbling Bee.
I guess those computer hands are worth playing. You want poker tournaments to be consistent with the purpose of a championship and not punish those who pursue first place? The rest of the story, as I rendered Joey's version, was that this Orren fellow lost big at poker in Vegas about a year ago, and in a childish rage, he challenged the Vegas pros to a big no-limit game up here at his Daddy's casino in Idaho. He knocked me out of my first final table last year.
Why not? Fuck! barked Doc, Goddamn it! I've been around gambling long enough to know that the euphoria wears off after while -- the honeymoon ends. Oh really? You write poker articles? There are too many things to consider in a real game, and calculating a tactic for a given pokerparty situation is seldom possible with any degree of precision. One thing is for sure. Blade went straight through the aorta.