Poker Player Politics

[Content Disclosure: 35% Poker; 83% Politics, 19% Second-hand Worldly Observations]I was playing a few evenings ago when the far end of the table began a political discussion. Down at our end there was general cynicism regarding all things political,...

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Story #2

[Content Disclosure: continued from yesterday]For now we see through a glass, darkly, but then face to face: now I know in part; but then shall I know even as also I am known. ---- ----- ---- 1 Corinthians 12We do not see the world the same way a person...

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Right for You, Wrong for Me

[Content Disclosure: Morals, Ponderings, Life and 1/2% Poker]‘Reinhold Neibuhr said, “You make a moral choice, you act, and then you ask for forgiveness.” You make the choice, because you can’t sit around hemming and hawing forever. You ask forgiveness,...

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Tis Good to be Back

[Content Disclosure: 13%-19% Poker, 87% Northern California]Let me get it out of the way right up front, I have not been to the 101 Casino (formerly Sonoma Joe's) for any poker yet, but soon I promise. I have been to several Indian and one Burmese restaurant,...

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Luck or Freedom?

[Content Disclosure: 100% Poker, 43% Freedom]I played a home game the other night, a real home game; no poker media, no one who had ever even played in a card room. Some 'Follow the Queen', a few wild card games, lots of beer. My buddy, who got me the...

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Poker Journalism?

[Content Disclosure: 100% Poker, 32% Journalism, 12% Style, 4% Stupidity, 2% Does it really matter?]"Trying to be a first-rate reporter on the average American newspaper is like trying to play Bach's 'St. Matthew's Passion' on a ukulele." ----- -----...

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Sixty-One

[Content Disclosure: Life 61%; The World 61%; Nomenclature 61%; Klondikes 61%; Wheelbarrows 61%; Wombats 61%]Today's post is brought to you by the number 61, the Community for Public Broadcasting and viewers like you.Asked to rank the presidency of George...

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Work, Labor, Job, Calling

[Content Disclosure: 89% Musings, 0% Poker, 56% Work]"The overfull litter baskets suggest abundance rather than squalor." -- Ian McEwanWe humans see things differently. We also tend to debate, argue and exhort one another over these differences. Lately...

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Poker Shrink Returns

[Content Disclosure: 100% Poker, 44% Writing]My weekly column Poker Shrink returns to PokerNews.com today!Back in '06 & '07, I wrote forty-four Poker Shrink articles for Poker News and today I pick up with number forty-five. All the back articles...

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